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Mar 11, 2014gavinbw rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Given the achievement of the first two trilogies, I felt honor bound to engage the final series. Having slogged through the first three books of the last chronicles, I merely felt "pot committed" to reading the final book--just to get closure. In retrospect, I don't feel that the final series needed to be written. Nor do I feel at all happy about the roundabouts associated with the meat of the second series. The introduction of the Insequent seems like only another gargoyle in a hopelessly baroque cathedral. The violence done to the main characters feels gratuitous, their motivations and values seem obscure or even incoherent, and the summation and conclusion is practically the definition of deus ex machina, with all the efforts and tribulations of the characters utterly trivialized and paved over. Well, it's over, and my feeling is, at least we'll always have the first two trilogies.