This series continues to be exciting and fresh and I love the new characters introduced in this book. There is finally some hope in this one, after a long and terrible darkness. I love Celena's character development. I do wish that some parts had been trimmed down a bit, just because this book is so long. Like there were times I thought to myself "is this really necessary?" But overall this series is good. Intense, and somewhat dark, but epic and grand and wild.