4 Stars...
This is the fourth book in the series. I really enjoyed every aspect of it…except
for the ending. In my review for book 2
I explained that it felt like the author cut the story off at a random spot
just to create a book 2 and 3 although book 2 didn’t feel complete. It was even more evident in this book. The entire time the group’s goal in going to
The City of Crowns was to recover The Book of the Named and deal with
Cerestes. It is only now that I write
this that I realize that they did recover The Book of the Named, but it feels
lost in the overall storyline.
The book starts out with the group sailing up the Crown Rush
(river leading to the capital city).
Sora works on meditating to get connected with her necklace again. The author must plan for something
spectacular to happen once Sora connects fully with the cat’s eye in the last
book because this also just feels lost in the storyline. Another review said that in this book Sora
and Crash finally admit to their feelings.
I didn’t feel this strongly about their encounters. Their interactions were definitely more bold
than in previous books as far as what they said to one another, but it is also
unfinished. Sora spends more time
without Crash than in any other book.
She runs into Lord Seabourne from the first book and becomes determined
to get information about her “father’s” death.
I really don’t understand why she risks so much for this. The encounter turned out very interesting,
but I found Sora to be annoying as she pursued this.
Crash is being confronted with his past and is struggling to
keep his focus. His old Grandmaster is
trying to recruit him and it is deeply appealing to the lost little boy
Cerestes left behind. The entire group
begins to doubt his loyalties, but Sora doesn’t want to believe any of it. It becomes apparent that Cobra has a secret vendetta. The Shade is only a cover for him to accomplish
this. Krait is desperate for the
approval of her Grandmaster and the reader can only hope that she isn’t too
annoying as she comes to the realization that Cerestes doesn’t care for her and
she needs to make her own way. Caprion
has never trusted Crash and he is gaining evidence to support this throughout
the book.
I did thoroughly enjoy the time spent with Ferran and
Lori. I love Ferran. In this book, he took the place of Crash as
my favorite hero. The backstory on
Ferran was very interesting. Lori was
slightly more annoying with her encounters with Ferran in this book. This is something I struggle with as a reader. I find that when heroines don’t react in a
way I can understand to be annoying. I
don’t have this same issue with heroes.
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