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Yarvi half a king6/25/2023 So what? Never struck me as a particularly meaningful relationship anyway, and not that important to her. Skara is a queen in her own right, restoring Throvenland and much better off than where she began. Yarvi becomes Grandfather Yarvi and (despite Skara having leverage over him) that's a whole lot better than where he began, the book or the series. Rin loses Brand too, of course, but she and Koll are happy together and successful. As does Raith, albeit sans Rakki and Skara. She sails off into the sunset for further adventures. OK, Thorn loses Brand, and that's terrible, but by Abercrombie standards, it's not a dreadfully bad ending. At least Koll got to have the happy ending he deserved. Pretty much everyone ends up in a much worse place than when they began. I remember that I used to read plenty of YA when I was 11-12 without much problems, but I think I would have been traumatized by this ending if I had read it then. It was harder than I expected, for a book that's sold under the YA label.
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