REVIEW - The Cursed King (Inferno Rising #4) by Abigail Owen

The Book

Release Date: 25 October 2021

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Airk Azdajah, the rightful King of the White Clan, spent half a millennium being tortured by the false High King Pytheios. The only reason he’s alive is a curse— the man to kill Airk will be consumed in his own fire. Which is why Pytheios kept Airk alive, barely, unable to shift in his prison cage, driving the creature half of him into madness. Airk escaped, but he’ll never be truly free. What good is a king who can never let his feral dragon loose, never fly, and never lead his people? He’s better off dead.

Angelika Amon is the last unmated phoenix. The problem? She has no powers. Zip. Zilch. Angelika hates being dormant, especially now that her three sisters are blissfully mated to powerful dragon shifter kings and are very much part of the fight to take down the rotting king Pytheios, their parents’ killer. What good is a useless runt of a phoenix in a battle to save the dragon kingdom?

Desperate to find some way to help, she offers herself to Airk as a mate — just for political leverage. But a dormant phoenix is no damn use to him just like a dragon who can’t shift is no use to her. Until Pytheios sets his sights on Angelika for himself…

My Review  5 STARS

**Copy Provided by Netgalley and Entangled Publishing LLC, for an honest review**

This is the last book in the series and all the story comes to a conclusion with Angelika and Air as the people who group the remaining dragons together and form an alliance with other shifters to finish the war.

Angelika really comes into her own in this story and finds her place among her people and with her sisters, even if she is the one with no powers, but she has the heart and the way of persuasion that brings people to her.  

Airk goes on a mission, but Angelika goes to help, but does not realise that while she has been talking to her sister with plans, Airk has been making different plans with Samael and both end up having to change their plans.

Airk finally gets his mate with Angelika, although he is scared and fights himself and his dragon about this.  Eventually events happen that stop the divide with him and his dragon and he is no longer feral and he  works at defeating the Red Clan dragon leader.

I loved the closeness of the sisters and the emotions we get with this book.  I really enjoyed the world building and way this story came to its conclusion.