Bran has been injured by those more powerful than him for the last time, and he spends this book doing everything in his power to once again rest as king of his own family lands. There is a lot of fighting and a lot of zany plots, and it would be fun if it weren't so long. I liked that Lawhead introduced each section with a part of an old ballad about Robin Hood; I wish he had done that from the beginning since so much of it seemed out of place in the final book. Overall it was an interesting series with a lot of cool ideas that was just executed very poorly.