Infinite Shores Series: Drowned Gods #3 Published by Simon and Schuster on April 7, 2026
Genres: Young Adult Fiction / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction / Fantasy / Romance
Pages: 592
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Reading Challenges: 2026 Audiobook Challenge, All booksNinth House meets The Hazel Wood in this “brilliant” (Booklist, starred review) conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Drowned Gods Trilogy, a gorgeous dark academia fantasy following a teen mage and her friends on their desperate quest through worlds and time!
Fate cannot be broken—not even by the gods who serve it.
Emory refuses to lose Romie again. Her friend’s fate hangs in the balance as the monstrous Clover plans to use her as a sacrifice to steal power from the deity Atheia—and make himself into a proper god. To stop Clover, Emory needs the help of Atheia’s dark counterpart, Sidraeus. Yet this enigmatic deity cannot be trusted, and if Emory is to ally with him, she must invoke an ancient magic to keep him tethered to her side.
Meanwhile, in the divine workshop of the god of balance, Baz learns he has a role to play in the coming fight to save the crumbling worlds and their weakening magics. Yet all he can think of is Kai and the gruesome fate that awaits him at Clover’s side—a fate, the god tells him, that is beyond even his reach. But Baz is determined to save Kai, even if he has to rewrite time itself.
As chaos reigns and the tides of a corrupted magic threaten to consume all, Emory and Baz must contend with mercurial gods, vengeful deities, and those hell-bent on eradicating Eclipse magic to save the people they love—and write an ending to their stories that defies fate itself.
Gods, Chaos, and One Final Journey Across Infinite Shores
I wasn’t ready to say goodbye to this world, and after finishing Infinite Shores, I’m still not sure I’m ready to let these characters go.
After loving Curious Tides and Stranger Skies, I went into this final book with very high expectations, and Pascale Lacelle gave me exactly the emotional, magical, and completely chaotic conclusion I was hoping for. There is so much happening in this book—gods, dangerous magic, impossible choices, shifting worlds, time itself being messed with, and characters willing to risk everything for the people they love.
What I have loved most about this trilogy is how completely original the world feels. The magic is complicated, the mythology is huge, and yes, there were definitely moments when my brain was working overtime trying to keep up with everything happening. But somehow, that is also part of what made this series so much fun for me. I never knew where the story was going next.
The characters were the heart of this final book for me. Emory, Baz, Romie, Kai, and the others have been through so much since Curious Tides, and seeing how far they have come made this ending hit even harder. Their friendships, loyalties, mistakes, sacrifices, and determination to fight against the fate that has supposedly already been written for them kept me completely invested.
And can we talk about the gods? Because apparently this series decided regular magical chaos wasn’t enough. We needed mercurial gods, vengeful deities, corrupted magic, crumbling worlds, and enough questionable decisions to keep this chaotic fantasy reader very happy.
Infinite Shores is a big, ambitious finale that doesn’t take the easy way out. It is emotional, bittersweet, sometimes heartbreaking, and filled with the kind of beautiful, strange magic that made me fall in love with this trilogy in the first place.
I may have reached the final shore, but I don’t think I’ll be forgetting this world anytime soon.
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