The Road Home

This is really the last of the Guardians of the Flame books. There are others after it, but they really go in a different direction with different characters. I enjoyed this book like all of the others, but really it isn't quite as strong as the first five.

If you liked the first six (and if you didn't, why would you be looking at this one?), you'll like this one, though perhaps not as much. People you already know do the things they always do, and things happening off stage almost seem more important than the characters we're following around. It's still a fun romp though.

A bit of a slower book than the last several as several major story lines were wrapped up in book #6, and the author needed to setup the the plot for the rest of the series (I assume).

The book alternated chapters with first person narrative with Jason and Walter and I found myself skimming the Jason chapters to get to the Walter chapters as I found them infinitely more interesting.

The same problems as the last book and more as this ends the major arc with the original characters, I expected some answers about why Deighton sent them, what the sword was for, why the Hand would only help them the first time, and many more that are never addressed. I'm not sure if this are addressed in the final 3 books but I doubt I'll ever have the desire to bother reading them. I thought it was a poor arc ending.