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I’ve seen a lot of comparisons between Last Guard and Heart of Obsidian and I get it, at first glance it does have a similar dynamic, only with the gender roles reversed. Instead of Kaleb Krychek you have Payal Rao, both are widely known to be ruthless and powerful; the embodiment of Silence. Then as a foil to that hard robotic edge we have Sahara Kyriakus and Canto Mercant. Neither of whom have ever been Silent. But, I think digging any further into the similarities between Kaleb and Sahara and Payal and Canto does Last Guard a disservice. No one will ever be Kaleb. Before the reader had even started Heart of Obsidian his character had been carefully crafted; we’d been with him on that wibbly wobbly edge of morality waiting to see which way he would fall. Luckily for the world, he fell in love. But, in Last Guard we are introduced to two completely new characters. There’s no build up to them, we are going in cold.

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