94 points/100 (4.75/5 stars)

There are still kids to save and an operation to dismantle. And now the last owner left of Winter Halo know Tiger and Jonas are coming for her. While the goal is to give light immunity to vampires and Others, Tiger suspects there is more to Ciara dream than we had guessed before.

As always, I had to choose between reading something I'm loving slowly and savouring it, or reading it all in one go. And, as always, I chose the second option. I have no patience. I'm so glad I finally got to this series. I love seeing lonely people finally getting the family they crave. It may not be the family they expected, or started with, but it is family. It is home. I love it.

There are a lot of hard choices to make in this series. This was hard to read. There were so many things happening, and it wasn't all good. I kept holding my breath at scenes. Then bad things kept happening, and there were more things that had to happen. We couldn't dwell on what is happening, because there was more. There also wasn't time to regret any of the choices they had to made, which was also good at the time.

The Black Tide was all action, action, action. It felt a lot like Winter Halo, without as much personal parts to the plot. Things blowing up. People getting hurt. Tiger getting hurt a lot. Escaping from problems we got ourselves into in the first place. Running away from people who mean us harm. It actually got pretty complicated there by the end. Lots of threads to keep track of as everything from the entire series got tied together in a nice pretty present.

Tiger is amazing. Her life has changed so much since the start of City of Light. Never could she have guessed just how much it could possibly change when she went out to save that little girl. Maybe someday we'll get a short story or novella revisiting this world and how Tiger's life has changed after everything that has happened. I will say I am upset because I was denied a chance to view Jonas in action!! How cruel, Keri Arthur. How cruel.

The ending wasn't at all what I thought it was going to be. I can't say I'm actually certain what I expected, but this shocked me. Despite knowing the ending was coming soon, I have to say it came really fast. I wasn't ready! I'm pretty happy with it, though, even though it didn't show much of anything to do with how her life after the events, just hinted at how it would be different.

I would totally recommend this series to others. I had a blast!

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Grabbed me from the beginning and didn't let go. Tiger is on the hunt for missing children, labs and Dream, the one trying to give wraiths and vampires light immunity to wipe out humanity. Tiger, Jonas and her ghosts work together to uncover Dreams plans and expose her. Loved seeing her and Jonas moving forward in their relationship, would love a follow-up story focused on them.
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I was rather frustrated with the second book, but now I realize that what I saw as the main plot, the saving of the children, was actually a sub-plot. The bigger picture, we find out in The Black Tide. It was action packed, nice resolution. There is an HEA, but not EVERYTHING is tied up in a pretty bow, so there is some realism there...in as much as there can be. This is a pretty fantastical tale with some truly unique world building.

Yeah, in the end I enjoyed it and I’d give the series 4 stars as a whole. ( )

Tiger has finally taken the first steps against the sinister forces experimenting on children for their own dark aims. But more children are missing - and those experiments are gaining ground: the some vampires are walking in sunlight

To finally stop this she needs to bring down Ciara the sinister architect behind this. But Ciara can change her shape to look like anyone and apparently has influence at the very top of government.

This book is action packed - we open with Tiger charging into battle against these sinister facilities and it doesn’t let up from there

And it’s really satisfying to follow with this book of concrete action and results after the sometimes confusion of the previous books. We had a lot of random events before and a whole lot of confusion from the large scale, highly convoluted and multiple levels of conspiracy that was exposed but still pretty hard to follow in the last two books

Now we have answers. Now Tiger knows what she is up against and what needs to be done. And this born weapon is going to charge into battle and kill everyone she needs to do to bring this world ending conspiracy to an end. She knows who is responsible, she knows their sinister plans - now the investigation has finished and it’s time to blow it all up.

And can I say now that I was pretty wary of Tiger for a while - the fact that she was designed to be a seductive assassin made me think of a lot of terrible tropes: but we dodge that. She is a lethal trained commando and warrior: we have no lethal seduction, but a lot of guns and explosions.

This does come with some interesting moral quandaries: especially in relation to the experiments here. I.e. the people these illicit labs have created, the babies, what they are, whether they can be saved, whether they should be saved, whether they’re acceptable collateral damage. All of this is extra poignant to Tiger, an artificially created being herself who saw so many of her people, especially the children whose ghosts she still treasures, were destroyed as being unfit to live.

She and Jonas have also reached an interesting level. Their romance has been on the cards for some time and, no, I’m not a fan. But I do like that they are addressing their ancestral problems, their fighting on differing sides of the war, both being party to atrocities for their own side… it isn’t just ignored. It is addressed, they do talk about it.

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