If this were a standalone book I’d maybe rate it slightly lower, but I really like how it fits into the world of Dragon Age. Easily my favorite of the DA novels! Isseya’s story is so tragic — she had to sacrifice so much of herself to end the blight, and I wanted things to be different for her the whole way through but I always knew her story had to end in tragedy. And yet she managed to keep some hope for future generations at the very end… the only DA book to make me tear up!

Edit: my biggest complaint about Veilguard is what they did to Isseya :’) the character assassination of it all… why they made that choice is beyond me