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thenajo's review
4.0
I don't know. Guy Adams writing is still as entertaining as ever. This book also has a different structure than the first two, which makes sense upon completion of the story. But the brutality is what holds me back. To have a truly horrifying villain, I guess you have to have truly horrifying consequences. And the writing makes those actions all the more visceral. But Chapter 25 in particular was hard to stomach.
jelveby's review
2.0
The fact that like 70% of what apparently is the conclusion to a trilogy is told to us in a series of flashbacks, irks me to no end. Flashbacks are fine, but I don't want the majority of a book to take place there. It takes me right out of the story instead of drawing me in.
Then there's the fact that with getting "hints" of there being an unknown party steering the events in the background, very obviously setting up the book for a clever ending, even if we can't necessarily see what that ending is going to be.
Combine these two facts and you get a book where arguably 90% of if doesn't really matter. And then we get to the epilouge where we get to see what actually happened.
I am disappoint.
Then there's the fact that with getting "hints" of there being an unknown party steering the events in the background, very obviously setting up the book for a clever ending, even if we can't necessarily see what that ending is going to be.
Combine these two facts and you get a book where arguably 90% of if doesn't really matter. And then we get to the epilouge where we get to see what actually happened.
I am disappoint.
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