The Golden Shrine

Looked forward to this, the final one in the trilogy. Tore through it, enjoying the characters and situations. The ending was a little predictable and too-neatly-wrapped-up, but still fun. Sad to see the series end, as so often with Turtledove's books. But thoroughly enjoyable. I am more into the alternative history end of things, so the magic was not my favorite part, but he made it interesting, and essential to the plot.

I generally really lke Turtledove's writing but this is very dull. The idea and plot are good but the constant attempt at amusing banter between main charactors is boring. Hamnet's troubles with women are interesting the first time they come into the plot but not the 10 th, and he could have been a very interesting charactor.

That's my main feeling about this whole series, it could have been so much better, Turtledove has done much better.

Not overwhelmingly great, but a decent read. Third of a trilogy, but I found it pretty easy to pick up what might have happened in the prior two books.