I was really looking forward to this one. The last book really got me and I thought the books were getting better and better. This book seemed to regress. 
 I kid you not this girl cries every other page. Seriously, someone needs to sneeze too loudly and it sets her off. I had trouble with Gwyn in the first book because she seemed so immature but then it got better. Here it was back to square one. I could forgive this if most of the other characters didn't make me want to wring my own neck; Xemerius for example. I had found him quite funny before but here he was just that annoying kid in the back of the class who keeps saying stupid things just trying to get a laugh when everyone else is just facepalming on the desk wanting him to stop. I really wanted him to stop. 
 The plot, while tying up most of the loose ends and stuff from the previous ones, failed to be satisfying. There were no new plot twists and the ones that tried to be had been so heavily alluded to in the previous book that it failed to surprise me at all. The ending was the worst of all. I swear Disney films had more tragedy, I mean Mufasa dying, Pocahontas being permanently parted from white guy with hair, Big gorilla dying in Tarzan (Kurchak?) yeah Disney has depth. This was more of a weird and they live happily ever after... ending and it made me want to puke. (view spoiler)[I mean c'mon, they're both immortal now? Who didn't see that one coming. Immortality is totally wasted on those two weeping balls of angst (hide spoiler)]