Rating: 3.5/5 
 ***Minor spoilers & spoilers for the previous books*** 
 Annith has been stuck in the Convent for her entire life. She was brought as a baby and has been raised there ever since, and has still not been allowed on an assignment. Over her years at the Convent she's learned to be very good at collecting information - eavesdropping, really. She overhears the abbess saying how Annith would make a good seeress because she is obedient, but Annith wants nothing more than to serve Death as his handmaiden, not a seeress who spends her entire life in a room. When the abbess tells Annith it is either become seeress or leave the Convent, she decides to take matters into her own hands. 
 Personally, this as my least favourite in the series but I still ended up liking it in the end. The main reason for this is that is took an extremely long time for things to end up happening. I found the first third of the book pretty boring and draggy and I was waiting for a long time for it to pick up. Thankfully it picked up a lot and there were a lot of plot twists over the last third of the book, but for a while I had planned to rate this book lower. 
 At first I found the timeline of this book to be a bit confusing. It started off while Ismae was still "pretending" with Duval and Chancellor Crunard was still on the council. Then over some amount of time, by the time Annith reached the Duchess's court, everything over the previous two books had already happened. It was pretty confusing but I had just accepted it because I didn't want to bother worrying about it. 
 While I liked Annith as a character, Ismae is still my favourite in the series, with Grave Mercy being my favourite book. What I did like about Annith is that she was a very strong character and didn't take anyone else's crap. When she couldn't get what she deserved she went out and fought for it herself. When she was hit again and again with these surprises about her life, she didn't give up and lose hope. Her romance was also very unique compared to the other books. 
 Overall, I was quite satisfied with this book as an end to the trilogy. The book dragged and took a while for it to become fully interesting, but by the end I was enjoying it a lot. Annith was a strong female lead and had the most interesting love interest of the three books. I loved the ending to the series and how everything came together, and we got all the answers we were looking for. I would definitely recommend this series!