Katerina Martinez continues Izzy’s saga by further exploring her magical world and having Izzy revisit her past. The tension between Axel and Izzy is finally explored, but was a bit lackluster from what I had expected. I was a bit disappointed that we, readers, were left with another cliff-hanger in this story. I had thought that this was going to be the final installment in the Wardbreaker series, but is not. There will be at least a fourth book.

The magical prison, Harrowgate, was supposed to be very hard to break into and have a lot of security. While it did take Izzy and her team a while to figure out how to get in, it was not as nerve wracking and intense as I was expecting. I was also surprised by several characters near the end of the story. One of them I had forgotten about and the other surprised me with their true alliance.

I enjoy Katerina Martinez’s writing style and the world she has created, but this installment in the Wardbreaker series felt a bit off from the other two. It was not as adventurous as the previous two stories and really only seemed to focus on the prison break, which led to me to feel like it was more of a short story in Izzy’s journey.