Book three time! Spoilers ahead!
Dilah and his friends are reborn as human children and grow into their early teens. Then Dilah is given a warning: Someone is trying to obtain the Collar of Rebirth for evil purposes. Dilah and his friends will now have to go on a journey to put a stop to this.
I wish I liked this one. I really do. But man...I'm disappointed. Most of this can simply be blamed on the poor advertising of the German edition, though. Put simply, this is basically being advertised as an animal xenofiction book. Book one and two were animal xenofictions. The cover depicts two characters (including Dilah, our protagonist) as foxes. The back cover advertises it as a "tierfantasy" (directly translated: animal fantasy).
Yet it is not. This book isn't even xenofiction. The main characters are all humans. There are some side characters who are (part) animal, but overall this is a book about human characters doing human things. And with me going into this expecting it to be a fun animal fantasy xenofiction like books one and two, I was very disappointed. I kept hoping for Dilah and his friends to turn back into animals, but it never happened. So this cover is just very deceiving, to be honest.
The characters are okay, the journey they go on is fine, the conflict is pretty interesting, etc. etc. But I was just so disappointed by being falsely advertised to. This book also had me far less hooked than books one and two. I cared less for this whole conflict with Medusa and some sea creatures and the queen of the sea than the conflicts of books one and two.
I guess I'll keep reading this series, but I do hold the false advertising of the German editions against it. Not the fault of the original book, but since I'm reviewing the German version this is what I'm basing my opinion on.
Rating: 3/5
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