Felicia's Reviews > Corambis

** spoiler alert ** I have very mixed feelings about this book, probably because I love the first three of the series soooo much and it's been a while since I've read them. That's the problem with huge fantasy epics, you forget stuff and then want to dive in without being properly oriented to what's going on.

Also, I read this on a Kindle which is nice but you don't have a map (if there was one in the hardback version). A map would have helped reading this book a lot. Hell, I like maps in every book I read, regardless of genre :)
The good stuff: I love these characters, I love how this series is not really categorizable, I love how she deals with homosexual characters in an interesting way, I love the introspection and the deepness of world-building.

The stuff I want to avoid talking about but must to review it is that this book was a bit of a disjointed ending to an AMAZING series. I felt like the world we got dropped into, one with mechanics and steam etc etc, was a little bit jumping the shark from the first three. Better this had been a start to another trilogy in this "steampunky" universe our heroes got taken to. I missed the secondary characters from the last book (which ended on a heartwrenching note, amazing), and I was slightly confused about why we actually were living through the new character's eyes, even to the end. The first half was very engrossing because it was a lot of Felix and Mildmay (or more Felix actually), but the storylines seemed to drift from where they wanted to go midway through, and instead into a metaphysical realm that was a bit hard to follow and connect with as a reader (Only my personal opinion).
I will definitely read other things this author has to offer, she reminds me of Jaqueline Carey a lot, and I would encourage trying this series despite the strange turn book 4 took.