A review by frogggirl2
The Legacy of Arniston House by T.L. Huchu

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

I quite liked book one and two of this series but feel greatly let down by three and four.  Info dumping all of this exposition about Ropa's grandmother here into the fourth book slows down the pace considerably.  It's a very weird way to construct a series overall - it's too late to just be finding out all of this important information in tedious infodumps now in book four.  So much of this book is just rehashing what's happened in the previous books or just scene for scene replaying it (fighting the same enemies, same wizard duel, etc.).

This book's plot is all over the place and it advances in fits and starts.  One exciting thing happens and then you have fifty pages of downtime and that's just the book throughout.  
Having the hero/heroine accused of the crime is one of my biggest pet peeves in books, TV or movies.  It's a lame way to drum up fake drama when you know they didn't do it and you know that the rest of the series isn't going to take place with the lead character in jail.  This book didn't even care about the accusation anyway - it never really came to anything and it was just handwaived away.

By the time we finally got to the cliffhanger I didn't care at all.  I think I'm done with this series.