Phew. I even knew what was coming and I still had a hard time holding back the tears. Other than the fact that I wish I had been able to read this closer together with the other two (because I think some of the more subtle connections between them went over my head), I was impressed with this final installment. I do think it was my least favorite of the 3, but not to any extreme... Not as much of the mystical here as in the other ones. And I was a bit disappointed in Authie and Leval as the "bad guys"...I think the author relied too much on the widely known atrocities of the Nazi's to fill in the blanks and didn't do quite enough drawing out of their own investments and interests in the Codex. But I did enjoy the flashbacks to Arinius and the original story of the Codex. And as always in these 3 books, so many deaths. Of so many of the people you come to know and love and cannot stand to lose. But you lose them anyways. And Sandrine and Raoul. I loved the symmetry in their deaths so so much. It was beautiful. The perfect parallel ending.