Archer and his fellow Dreamtreaders are fighting the final battle. With the Rift tearing their world apart, they will need some strange allies to pull things back together. Kara has taken the Nightmare Lord's throne, and is throwing the world into chaos in her desperate grab for power. Archer will have to think outside the box to find a way to defeat Kara and her armies before the Rift destroys everything they know.

I continue to love Archer's character! He grows and changes and becomes more mature in this book. He's no longer reckless and foolish. He takes responsibility for his bad choices, and puts his own needs aside to focus on helping others.

I adore little Kaylie! She is an 8-year-old genius with more mental power than all the others combined, but she is cute as a button and sweet as icecream. She's so adorable and lovely!

I was confused by some of the plot points concerning the villain characters.

Spoiler

Uncle Scoville, known as the Lurker, has been established in the previous two books as a maniacal, terrifying villain, known for torturing his prisoners, enslaving others with gort, and smiling creepily with an insane laugh. He is a crazy evil guy! He's lost his marbles from being in the Dream so long. He has no respect for human life. He enjoys harming others and tricking them and lying about everything.
So after everything he did to bring about the Rift, I found it very unrealistic that as soon as the Rift actually happens, and he sees the destruction of the Waking World, and millions of people suffering and dying, then he just magically changes his mind, and decides to be a good guy!
Oh, he spent the whole last year punching massive holes in the Dream Fabric, but now he wants to sew up the holes and restore order. Really? What brought about this sudden change of heart? I mean, he was a maniac before. Clearly disturbed and crazy and insane and nutso! Maybe since he was reunited with his body, then he's not crazy anymore?? Not sure.
It just felt very unrealistic to me.

Same thing with Rigby. He was warned multiple times that the Rift would destroy the world and that millions of people would suffer, but he didn't care. He just wanted power and money and fame, and he didn't care that there would be collateral damage. So now, suddenly he cares? He was willing to kill an 8-year-old little girl because she posed a threat to his plans, but now he just wants to save the world? And why was he promising to release the Scath if he wanted to save the world? Ugh.

I love me a good redemption story, but it needs to make sense. There needs to be a reason, a big life-changing reason, for the villain to team up with the good guys. And this just felt so unrealistic for the villains to have a sudden change of heart.

I really loved the clever way that the heroes found a way to close up the Rift. It was half sci-fi, and half magic. Very imaginative, and fit in perfectly with the story!

Overall, I loved this trilogy! Great writing, and wonderful characters, plenty of action and fantasy!