The final book in the trilogy! Let's dive right in! Spoilers ahead.
With both the Kazar and Murdano getting ready to enact their war, Khara's Army of Peace is dedicated to something else: preventing the war before it can happen. However, they still need more allies, and time is wearing thin. Byx and her friends will have to face their biggest foes yet in order to succeed.
Another good book in this series, however not my favorite of the bunch. Like I said in my last review of this series, I didn't much care about the war it was building towards and while I wasn't as disinterested in this book because of it as I'd expected going in, it didn't exactly sell me on the concept either.
Luckily, however, it didn't turn out quite like I feared. I really thought that, with book two being very dedicated to seeing up the war, this book was going to be mostly fighting and battles, however honestly a large portion of it is just Byx going on quests and diplomatic missions in order to gather more allies for the Army of Peace. I also liked how the goal of the Army of Peace wasn't actually to participate in the war, but rather to prevent it. They did end up fighting briefly, but in the end Khara and her allies managed to get things to end well for them without many people dying.
That said, I wasn't a fan of how the final conflicts with the Kazar and Murdano were handled. Their deaths felt a bit too easy and rushed for me. They, as characters, too felt underutilized. We only saw the Murdano very briefly in book one, and the Kazar didn't even appear before the final conflict in this book. So we know so little about these people who are supposed to be our main villains. We just know that they're tyrants who want to take over the world and wipe out other species or stuff like that. They weren't established enough and I didn't care about them enough to consider them legitimate threats by the climax of this book. And, like said before, I thought they were defeated too easily. Khara was already injured by the time she decided to take on the Kazar and the Murdano's champion in single combat but she somehow still won and lived to tell the tale. I'd have been more okay with it if the battle had been more intense or if Khara had bitten the dust, but right now everything felt just a bit too convenient for them both to die like that and Khara to survive just fine.
That said, this isn't a bad book by any means. I was still invested in the world and other species, and the epilogue was especially nice. Despite me not caring about the war conflict much, I did care about these characters. By the end, Byx is no longer the only dairne (though I'm glad they didn't force her in a romance with Maxyn just because they were some of the last of their kind), Khara and Renzo have kids, Gambler is happily re-united with his family, Byx and Tobble are still best friends and wobbyks are now acknowledged as one of the governing species. Just very wholesome stuff and I like how it was kept very brief. After all the hardships these characters experienced (especially Byx) it just felt really satisfying to see this conclusion.
While this wasn't my favorite book in the series, I still had a good time reading it and it does make for a mostly satisfying conclusion to the trilogy, so I do recommend it.
Rating: 3.5/5
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