Reviewed by ladygrey on
First of all, the first third of this book is kind of pointless. Adelice is supposed to be destroying the looms and saving two worlds and she went with Cormac on purpose to do these things. And yet, she does nothing. She sits in her room, makes up with Pryana and Amie. For half the book!
And at least some of the spinsters know the whorl us coming but there’s zero world building around what they think that means and why it matters. We have to assume they don’t know what Adelice knows. And they don’t seem to know she is The who. So what’s with all that?
And then the whole Whorl, tie off Arraa, destroy the looms sub-plot is eradicated. We need a quick end to this so the Whorl is completely meaningless, let’s go with Protocol Three.
And then, then! What, the what!?! The whole end hints pretty clearly that Jost is really Erik with ZERO EXPLANATION. Why? How? Like Erik could have taken the time to tailor them to look like each other... in the middle of this fierce battle (idk). But why? It serves zero purpose. And to take the time to make them look like each other? I mean, maybe if Jost was the one who died and Erik did it after they got to Earth so Sebrina would have her father it almost makes sense. Except Sebrina didn’t remember Jost so it’s not like she’d ever know the difference. And if that was the case WHY NOT EXPLAIN IT? And after a month of living together wouldn’t Erik explain it to Adelice? It’s so completely unnecessarily pointless. I’m pretty sure Albin did it just Tb be able to end in that line about alteration and love. Which is fine. But you can end on that line and still explain things to your reader.
I hoped this series would manage to end well with semi-decent characters and decent banter and a few of the characters shifted well in this last one but that was WAY underdeveloped. But it wasn’t just disappointing, it was bad. Totally spoiled the entire series. ugh
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- 17 January, 2020: Finished reading
- 17 January, 2020: Reviewed