A review by chrispy294
Lord of the Darkwood by Lian Hearn

3.0

While still good, Lord of the Darkwood really felt like a middle book here. Unlike its predecessor, all the set up and development didn’t really have any payoff in this entry, but it still put a lot in place for the final book in the series. I really like how it pushed forward so far in time that we get to see a lot of the children characters grow up and establish themselves as major players in the overall narrative. It’s just too bad we didn’t get to see them or the major players from previous entries do much.

I’m really excited to see how this all ends, and I think this book is very important in developing the various story threads so they can all converge for the grand finale. However, as its own book, it falls short of the previous entries.