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3	''A Sorrow Fierce And Falling'' is a DarkFantasy novel by Jessica Cluess. It's the third and final installment in the ''Literature/KingdomOnFire'' series.
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5	In the months that have followed since [[Literature/APoisonDarkAndDrowning the Ancients brought down London]], and the remaining Magic Order, including [[TheProtagonist Henrietta Howell]] and the Order's new leader, George Blackwood, are laying low in Blackwood's mansion in Sorrow-Fell to train [[TheChosenOne Maria]], and come up with a plan to end the Ancients once and for all.
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7	One day, after training Maria, Henrietta makes an interesting discovery on the Sorrow-Fell grounds. It's the circle of stones where magic was born. They ultimately decide that the best way to bring the war to an end is to lure R'hlem, the other Ancients, and all of their familiars into the circle and send them all back to the Ancients' dimension for good. Sounds simple enough, right?
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9	Well, unfortunately, Lambe has revealed that a danger lurks within Sorrow-Fell. And Henrietta thinks she knows what that danger is.
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11	The book was published on October 16th, 2018.
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14	!!''A Sorrow Fierce And Falling'' contains examples of:
15	* BlobMonster: Molochoron. He makes his first appearance in the book as an illusion for Maria to fight. [[spoiler:He makes a real appearance during the fall of Sorrow-Fell.]]
16	* CircleOfStandingStones: Henrietta finds a circle of twelve stones on Sorrow-Fell property. They find out that the circle if where magic was born, and decide to use it to send the Ancients back to their dimension.
17	* DeadGuyJunior: [[spoiler:Henrietta decides to name her and George's baby Stephen, since that was Rook's name before he became Unclean.]]
18	* EldritchLocation: The Fae world half of Sorrow-Fell Manor is easily this. Henrietta describes it as not built for humans, having hallways that spiral like dreams, ceilings so low she can scrape her head against them, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking unevenly placed stones on the floor]].
19	* FacialHorror: Molochoron's Familiars, which are reproduced in a training illusion for Maria, are described as having melted faces.
20	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:R'hlem]], by [[spoiler:The Kindly Emperor]].
21	* KeystoneArmy: [[spoiler:Henrietta notes in the final chapters that, once the Ancients returned to their dimension, all their Familiars died.]]
22	* MemorialForTheAntagonist: [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]]. [[spoiler:After the Ancients and the Kindly Emperor are sent back through the portal to their native realm, thus ending the war, the people of the country celebrate by parading R'hlem's corpse through the country, allowing people to hurl insults and debris at it and, in general, DesecratingTheDead. Afterwards, however, the body is delivered to [[TheProtagonist Henrietta]], who decides to bury the body and hold a small funeral for William Howell, her father, and the man that R'hlem used to be]].
23	* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: When Henrietta is kidnapped by R'hlem's army, she's brought to him, and one thing he does is treat her to a meal.
24	* {{Shapeshifting}}: Alice Chen. It comes in handy when [[spoiler:Henrietta needs to spirit the queen out of Sorrow-Fell]].
25	* WeddingSmashers: At one point, George and Henrietta's wedding is interrupted by attacking Familiars.

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