A review by karenholmes
Esmeralda by Kerstin Gier

4.0

Nice ending to a trilogy though I had my share of thinking about the time travel and making sure things were nicely tied up. In fact, they were, though I wish there were things that were more pondered and explained out.
As always, secondary characters were much more powerful than Gwen and Giddeon. Specially Lesley and Raphael, the daimon and the surprise baddie.

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I loved that almost everything was tied, but didn't like much the relationship Gwen had with James in the past and how she had to force him. It didn't made sense why she was able to see ghosts or at least it wasn't explained in the book and I was a bit disappointed in that. I can think of a couple of reasons, maybe immortality has something to do with it and that's how she relates at the same time with everyone from any time. But I might have loved to see James as an old and grumpy ghost following Gwen around school.
Not sure why, I also found Gwen was less resourceful and more ready to jump into Giddeon's arms. But I can forgive her.

Anyway, the book is a nice tied ending to the trilogy and enjoyable as the others.