Memory

Plot: It recovers from the weird excursion into nothingness that was the second volume, and picks up more or less where the first ends. The plot threads are easier to keep straight here. Subplots can drag on, and the main plot only gets going after the mid-point. The school plot feels out of place at times. And I must say that the final resolution is a cheap shot at keeping the reader confused and guessing. This isn't clever, this is like bringing an entirely new character on the last page of a detective story and presenting him as the murderer.

Characters: I couldn't make myself care for any of the characters. There are no good guys - everybody has a few murders to their name, and isn't particularly bothered by it. The main character show more is so lethargic that it is difficult to be concerned at all about him. The side characters are more interesting, but still don't quite work.

Style: It drags. The whole trilogy suffers from getting permanently sidetracked and lost in lengthy descriptions of manual labour of some kind. Whenever momentum is built up, ten pages of description on how to create charcoil brings it to a standstill again. The vision bits are less distracting here than in the previous books since it is finally beginning to be a bit clearer what they are supposed to do.

Plus: It finally brings back the plots and characters from the first part.

Minus: It never quite recovers from the second part. Drags on and the solution doesn't work for me at all.

Summary: Far from great. Not the disaster the second part was, but it never comes back to the level of the first volume. show less

hmmmmmmmm this one was not as awesome as the previous. I think you'd be best off just stopping after the second one. Still, the very very end made up for a lot and lifted this from a 3 to a 4. GO MOUSE LADY.