I received an ARC copy of this book from Netgalley and voluntarily leaving my review

I expected more of the story line in the Arravan series to develop in this book. Sadly that was not the case, and while it was entertaining to read, It felt way too slow.
Birds of sorrow seemed to focus more on the physicality of the relationship between Darry and Jessa. I would have liked to see more progression in the story.

I liked this book but preferred the previous 2 books in the series

After a far too long wait, I was so pleased to see The Bird of Sorrow, the third novel of Arravan.
Darrius Durand is the openly “backwards” (but beautiful, butch, loveable, caring, and multi-talented) princess of Arravan. After the events of book 2 (Blackstone) Darry retreats with her comrades and her lover, the Princess Jessa-Sirrah of Lyoness, to recuperate. Ancient secrets and unpredictable “majiks” are revealed as war approaches.
I love this book. I love the series. This is a top-class high fantasy series but with powerful, beautiful, and all-together wonderful “backwards” women. The writing is great, the story is engaging, and world-building is thorough. The love scenes are plentiful, appropriate, and hot.
I do wonder if this novel has been chopped to fit a target word count. This book, enjoyable as it is, still feels like Book 3 Part 1. The end comes at a logical point, but even so… I hope Part 2 is coming without too long a wait. Highly recommended – but please read books 1 and 2 first. You won’t regret it.

3.75 Stars. I enjoyed this, I thought it was a good read, but I am disappointed that I didn’t love this book. This is the third book in the epic fantasy series of Arravan. I love this series. The first two books were both 5 stars for me. That’s why even though I liked this book, I was bummed I could not put another full 5 star rating up. This is another series that I highly, highly recommend reading in order. Since reading book 2 of this series, I have read over a thousand books before I read this one. I found my memory to be a bit stuffed and I was a little lost in the beginning of this book. It took a while for my memory to kick in and remember all the characters and important plot points. If I was a little lost having read all three books, I just think it would be pretty confusing for someone new to start the series here.

I think one of the reasons I’m a little disappointed is because I expected this to be the end of the series. Book 2 was written almost five years ago. I was actually almost giving of hope of ever reading a book 3. I wrongly assumed that Godfrey came back to the series, after all this time, to give us a grand finale. Instead this book wasn’t the end, and it felt like a lot of filler. Yes, some important things did happen, but this felt like Godfrey had written one big final book and it got cut into two and this was part one. While there was a little excitement towards the end, this book felt much slower than the previous one. I kept waiting for more to happen but it didn’t. It was also very mystical, diving into the Darry’s magic, which was important but it dragged on too long for me.

I even found myself thinking there were too many sex scenes. I mean how often do I make that complaint? Not bloody often at all! But I just felt this book was almost all talk, understanding magic, and Darry and Jessa getting it on. It was nice to see two main characters I care about having sexy times, I just was anticipating so much more.

Even with my complaints, I still enjoyed this. Godfrey is an underrated and very talented writer. She has an excellent imagination and it really showed in this book. If my expectations weren’t so high expecting much action and a final showdown, I think I would have enjoyed this even more. I’m just keeping every finger and toe crossed that Godfrey does not make us wait five more years for book 4. I would still absolutely recommend this series to fantasy fans, but definitely start at book 1.

Action, adventure, friendship, love, betrayal. This book is truly one of a kind, romance fantasy is such a difficult genre to do well. I loved every twist and turn in this wonderful book. I am going to read everything by this author ASAP.

I received an ARC copy of this book from the Publisher via Netgalley and voluntarily leaving my review.

This was a enjoyable read.

I'm new to this author and I like the writing style it had great characters and a good plot that I have to get the two first books of this series to enjoy it more.

I read and very much enjoyed the first two books in the Arravan series by Godfrey so I was looking forward to this third book in the series and hoping for more to come. I was glad to find that my expectations were fully realized by this book. It seamlessly blended the intriguing and intense plot from the first two books and kept me on the edge, wanting more and more. The characters continued to be excellent, the writing brilliant. The next book can't come soon enough!