*SPOILERS INCOMING*
I loved this book. The Catenan Republic and it’s hierarchy is fascinating, and I am an absolute sucker for an elite academy in a book, especially the deadly kinds. Most of the time with movies, shows, and even books, I can see where the story is going and guess at certain things. I tried and failed with this book. There are some great twists and turns throughout and just when you think you have a situation pegged, it flips it on it’s head. Vis’ friends at the academy are wildly entertaining and I love how they come together, mostly as rivals turned friends. The labyrinth and it’s mysteries at the academy keep you endlessly guessing until the Iudicheum, and even after it. I love that you still don’t fully understand what it was, even after Vis goes through it. Veridius seems to know what happened to Vis in the labyrinth but when Vis decides to join government rather than his adoptive Father’s military branch or Veridius’ religion branch, I feared we wouldn’t have answers. However, we do find out that when Vis went through the portal at the labyrinth, he created identical copies of himself in 2 other worlds. We learn that the world was split into 3 identical copies thousands of years ago called “The Rending” in order to keep separated the forces that threatened to destroy Res (the main world). The book ends with Vis losing his arm during the Iudicheum and him deciding to join the government branch of the hierarchy.
Despite giving a spoiler warning, and spoiling the ending, I left out quite a few things that happen in the book in case an excited reader goes ahead and reads the spoilers. I’m looking forward to reading the next book once I get around to finishing A Parade of Horribles.
Until next time!
The Late Bloomers 
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