This picked up right where book 2 ended ... and I had this one ready to start the moment I finished book 2. I felt like this was a great conclusion to the series. It did finally explain a lot of the unanswered questions, about where the Numina had come from, where an ameranth came from. It pulled together the characters and their storylines in a way that left me content.

I'll remember this series fondly!

One audio note ... love the narrators, but did struggle a bit the entire time, as I have Lauren Ezzo SO entwined with "The Hundredth Queen" series in my head. It did improve in time as I connected to this story, but still, I'd flash back to the other series, because the voice was so familiar and this fantasy world wasn't completely contrary. Utter irony ... the male narrator, Scott Merriman, was ALSO a narrator for "The Hundredth Queen" but his voice hadn't stuck with me as much. It did sound familiar, but wasn't SO unique. However, it was unique enough, that when the few times the perspective changed (it was 3rd person, but with female narrator voicing when Sandis was the "main" and male narrator when we were more in Rone's head) away from the two main protagonists to other lesser characters (to Kazen, to Bastein, to She-Rig), they were still voiced by these two narrators. I would have appreciated NEW narrators, different voices. Although the text was telling who was "talking" now, it threw me a bit, because I was SO connected to the voices associated with our two main characters. Made the "voices" of the other characters seem the same too. I would have liked more of a distinction. I know that being 3rd person, there really isn't a need to switch narrators at all (even between the female/male) and that some readers might prefer the consistency to different voices. But I would have liked different voices for those few chapters ;)