While I would have waited a very long time to finish this series if I'd been left to my own devices, the missus had been listening to this series on audible, and was VERY disappointed when she found out that I'd sort of let this slide after I finished the second book. 
 She kept wanting to talk about what was going on, and I kept having to shrug my shoulders and tell her I hadn't been reading. 
 After being chastised mercilessly, I picked this up and gave it a read. 
 And lo and behold, it's really good. I read the first two and, in my opinion, quite generously gave them four stars. The first book was okay, the second book was annoying, yet tolerable (but with a pretty great ending). 
 This one though, it's strong from page one until the grand finale. It doesn't dive as deeply into melodrama as the other two books did, but still has a pretty good emotional arc. In all, this is by far the best book of the trilogy. Great stuff. 
 Below are my thoughts on the series as a whole, things I didn't bring up in the individual book reviews: 
 I have to stop for a moment and talk about something. 
 Sex. 
 Sexy sexy sex stuff. I really wanted to bring it up when I read book 2 in the trilogy, where it was much more prevalent, but decided it might be going somewhere in this one and so decided to leave it alone. Now that this is over, I feel like I have to ask: What's up with the virgin/whore thing? 
 The series seems to treat people either as virgins, or whores. Man or woman. Jarl was despoiled as a child and became a homosexual sex worker. Vi trained as a Wetboy (a fancy assassin) but worked in a brothel (and after a childhood rape, doesn't work properly down there), Momma K is a prostitute, also the head of the criminal underworld. The slutty Drake sister was raped and killed during the coup in the second book, all those are 'broken' good guys. 
 The bad guys all have voracious sexual appetites. But the good king Logan? Virgin. Kyler, the story's protagonist? Virgin. Elene, Kyler's true love and sweet angel? Virgin. Jeannine (King Logan's true love), Virgin. 
 I began to be able to start pairing people up based entirely on whether or not they were virgins. There is some strange vibe regarding innocence and purity all tied up in whether or not the person was a virgin or not. 
 I had a serious rant prepared for this after reading the second book, but during the third much of that was toned way down. There were still hints of it, but only hints, it wasn't so weird as the previous entries in the series. 
 And speaking of weird. I thought it strange that in this secondary world high fantasy tale, that the ancient religion and the one god that so many people follow is clearly the Judeo-Christian one. I mean, it was really jarring. Folks are going along, living these fantasy lives, and then someone quotes a scripture right out of a bible. 
 It's a disconcerting thing, I'm left wondering if I'm being preached at, if all that sexual weirdness is tied up in a subversive message about purity of the soul or something, I could almost look past it. But when the rare scene arises and someone is quoting from the bible, I start to wonder if there really is a message I'm supposed to be getting about what I'm reading. I seriously doubt it, but throwing in the occasional bible verse threw me out of the story, made me scratch my head, and wonder why. 
 Not the thing the writer wants you to do, I'd gather. 
 So, what we have here is a series that really has some deep flaws, but still succeeds in being very entertaining and the characters very likable. Or at least sympathetic. I think as time goes on I'll probably remember the flaws more than I do the brilliance of this work. 
 Still, if you can put up with all the weirdness, you do have a very good fantasy story. Still a notch below the best in the field, but I'd wager that this isn't the best work Weeks will ever do. I'm looking forward to whatever the next project is that he did.