4.5 stars

This was a great ending to this series. It was more plot focused than Timekeeper, but it did a better job than Chainbreaker of keeping the character development and relationships that made the first book so great. This definitely succeeded in getting an emotional response out of me. I also liked the newer characters we get to know in this book, but I wish we had more time with them to get to know them better. I liked the plot, especially the ending, but what made this book stand out was the way the characters responded to what was happening. They actually behave like people who have been through trauma, which isn't something I see all that often in fantasy. I also loved the writing style, as I have with the whole series. Tara Sim does such a good job of setting the tone and evoking emotion in the way the story is told. I was very close to giving this five stars, but I wasn't very impressed with the villains. I like my villains to have more moral complexity/ambiguity.