This series is fantastic and will go down as one of my favorites. I have been waiting for this ninth and final book in the series for some time... and I was completely underwhelmed. This is the weakest novel in the series and seems haphazard, chaotic, and has lost a lot of charm the others have. Granuelle, Atticus, and Owen are all over the place doing separate monster fights. But what's worse is the lack of back-and-forth chit chat and interaction between Atticus and Oberon! Oberon is my favorite thing in this series, and partly because Luke Daniels does a fanFRACKINGtastic job with the voice acting. And I was left feeling, "Meh!" after this ended. Maybe my hopes were too high as this was the final book? I know I am not the only one who feels let down by this one. But dang... maybe I will just choose the story to end with the eighth book instead.