This picks up from the events of book two - A Gathering Midnight - so some minor spoilers for that but none for book three

Fern and Ollie are still serving as Knights and are coming to terms with the loss of Ferns powers, and Olly is struggling with the use of the same

Medraut continues to get more and more power, affecting the dreamers in Annwn but also the population in the real world and this is becoming very dangerous to anyone even remotely different

Their only hope in defeating Medraut lies in finding Excalibur and the Grail, with or without the powers of the twins

Can Fern, Olly and the Knights save both worlds and the people they love, and if so, at what cost.....

Amazing conclusion to the trilogy! Makes me excited for what Holly does next!

Loved this urban fantasy book: great characters, solid plot, fascinating world building, and excellent storytelling.
It's the excellent final book in a great series.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

A midnight dark and golden is the final book in the Midnight Twins trilogy. It tracks Fern and Ollie's final journey to overpower Medraut.

This was a wonderful ending for this trilogy. It's a book filled with a unique fantasy world. I really liked the rollercoaster journey of the main characters. So much happens in this novel. It's action packed and gets every emotion. The narrative flows well and there is fantastic character development in this final installment.

Thanks to the publishers and Netgalley for an ARC of this novel.

This is how you finish a trilogy that has a reputation for brutality to its characters. In a series where no one is safe, you have to follow through and deliver on that all the way to the end, making the victory cost so much it doesn't entirely feel like a victory, and Holly Race does that.

The whole book is brutal in a terrifying way that feels too real as you see the effect of Mordraut in government. It's not just Anwnn that's breaking apart and dangerous, but Ithr (our world too.) And every time it feels like either world is broken beyond repair and it cannot get worse, Holly adds another layer of devastation.

Ollie and Fern's relationship also goes through more of the thicket of brambles surrounding them. The fact that Ollie has their Immral (special powers) and Fern doesn't adds more complications to work through, both together and personally. Not to mention the tangle of their love lives, particularly Ollie's. Their relationship with their parents (alive dad, dead mum) also gets all the more complicated in this book, as well as with the sort of parental figures. Some relationships are resolved in the book, but not all of them. That messy not-really-ended/resolved feels so much more realistic than if they'd just been all neatly tied off with bows.

I have loved this series' incredibly inventive take on Arthuriana - all these well known elements (Arthur, the round table, Merlin, Excalibur, the grail, etc) taken and used in such a new way. You recognise them (and there are also a lot of little Easter eggs like Una Gorlois), but you can't really anticipate how they're going to be used.

In all, it's a very satisfying trilogy ender that pays off the tone and expectations of the previous entries.

Such an incredible final book in the amazing series
I couldn’t put the book down and every time I did I couldn’t stop thinking about what was going to happen next
I was so emotional by the end of the book and didn’t want to say goodbye to the series
Can’t wait to read what Holly Race writes next

Well written, great character development and a great storyline. A really enjoyable read that was hard to put down.