Aubrey's Reviews > Aerie

Really disappointing. It's only halfway through the book that anything related to the actual plot presents itself - and look, I know what I'm signing up for with a Mercedes Lackey book, and the occasional plotless meandering is par for the course, but here it was painful to get through. The dragons were a set piece, and I was hoping for some exploration and interesting discoveries in Aerie, but no luck there. Instead, there's nonsensical relationship drama, and Aket-ten's stripped of all positive traits and portrayed as a petulant child for no apparent reason.
When we finally do get to the plot, it's rushed and very little is actually explained or even given room to breathe - and I like Peri, but she's given nothing interesting to do, and given that the story's already rushed, I'm not sure the addition of another viewpoint character did it any favors. Probably best to just pretend the series is a trilogy and skip this one.