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May 02, 2013andreareads rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
As others have said before me, this third book was the worst in the trilogy. The plot meanders all over the place, partly because it starts off dealing with sloppy leftovers from book two. Characters betray each other and switch sides so often some of the motivations don't even make sense any more. Powerful magic is thrown around without much explanation. It's a shame, because every once in a while there were some appealing details, like the horses having pet names for the humans, that reminded me of the potential of the first book. My favourite parts related back to the characters and plot of the first book, Poison Study, not the convoluted, extended plot of books two and three. If each of the books had stood of their own, storywise, I suspect it would have been a much stronger trilogy, but such is not the fashion these days, unfortunately.