A review by krista225
Druid's Sword by Sara Douglass

4.0

A very satisfactory ending to a series that started out really shaky for me. Had I not already had books 2 and 3 on the shelves, I probably would have stopped reading after the first book. I found very little in the opening of this series to admire. The characters were all around dreadful, caricatures instead of characters. What I later discovered was this was very much an intentional decision meant to give Brutus, Cornelia, Genvissa, and Coel a lot of room to grow. They eventually become complex and interesting characters. Sure, it takes them several lifetimes to grow into their full selves, but the wait is worth it.

One unexpected addition came into this last book that I thoroughly enjoyed. It's not often I run across Boudicca and Prasutugus in a fantasy novel, but I was quite enchanted with the author's decision to include them, even peripherally, in the struggle to beat the Troy Game.