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cordwainer

Very sad that this installment turned me from someone who was ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 31 January 2017

Very sad that this installment turned me from someone who was thoroughly enjoying the series, and looking forward to the remainder...to having no desire to waste either my time or money further. Reasons:

1) For the price, an absolute ripoff. Though not a hard and fast rule, there is certainly the expectation that all books in a series will be approximately the same price. Most are. But at 50+ pages shorter than the first book, and also shorter than the second, making the price over twice as high is insulting. All the worse since, where the first two books made some effort at completeness within themselves, this one is pure, lazy, Saturday-matinee-style cliffhanger.

2) Compared to the first two, sloppy plotting and inconsistent quality. If a book is not ready for "prime time", don't rush it into publication because you're greedy. No, that might not have been the authors' motivation. But that's the overwhelming impression this gives.

3) Pointless plot twist that - along with everything else - left me completely cold on reading more. Avoiding spoilers here, but anyone who has read this knows what I mean. We read partly because we want to spend time with the characters, for heavens' sake. Yet another example of sloppy (or lazy) plotting

4) Characterization is also far inferior and inconsistent. Previously actions made sense in context. But this installment sadly tends toward the now all-too-frequent device of "drama" being artificially generated by a character doing something out-of-character AND stupid.

I really tried not to be so harsh. I even waited a few weeks, and read this a second time, to be fair, thinking perhaps I'd simply been in the wrong mood. Nope. It actually made me even more fed up.

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Heather

Authors politics are evident.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 14 June 2018

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The beginning of the end in this series. In this book the author starts the small references to gay politics that bombard the next book, and kill the storyline. At least there is a little focus on the storyline in this one, unlike the next one. Might as well stop at the second book in this series. It just gets weird after that.

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sweet teas

LAAAAAAME Ending!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 8 January 2018

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The ending was horribly painful. I'll try not to be a spoiler...but let's just say--the written choreography of the ending was nothing like the other books. Everything was out of whack--not just for the characters but also in the writing. It was painfully stupid in a way.Absolutely, totally lame. There would have been so many better ways to accomplish what happened in the end. LAME-O!!!

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Richard Adams

Not many pages.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 26 September 2018

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The story is very good and exciting. The reason I give it only three stars is the books seem to be smaller and smaller it gets good and then you have to buy another book.

louise combs

same old, same old

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 22 March 2018

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still harry potterish. kids learning to do magic. dark wizards after them. main character fretting, thinking every bad thing that happened was his fault. reflection about what he could have done different. not worth the time spent reading it.

Becky

Bit of a let down

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 21 September 2016

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This book did not live up to the high quality of the first two. Not much happened for most of the book and then it was all over in a flash. The ending was heart breaking. Not a fan of this book which is a massive shame as I loved the other two.

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obs

Arrived damaged

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 4 November 2017

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Purchased this book new as a gift. The box it arrived in is fine, but the paperback book has damaged/folded back cover and the last page.

Charmaine Oertel

So so book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 9 December 2018

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So so book

Kristin

First 2 were better.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 16 February 2018

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Meh. First 2 were better.

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