The ending to this series was satisfying. It was nice to read a story with courtly intrigue, pirates, basically set in a fictional Europe during the Enlightenment, but without any fantasy elements.

Though I liked this series, I found it a bit repetitive—let's watch Jaren pull off an unlikely trick and outsmart everyone once again! And again! And yet again! Repetitive both inside this third book and across the series as a whole. I know that I'm not a big middle-grade fan...when I was an actual tween this probably wouldn't have bothered me.

The audiobook narrator was annoying as all get-out though.