The Book That Held Her Heart by Mark LawrenceMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is a 3-star review.
There are times when the last book in a series doesn't stick the landing. This is one of those times.
The first two books were great reads. So what went wrong here?
The author is a bona fide mathematics genius. With that comes great familiarity with the string theory that we are living in one of many parallel, nearly identical worlds.
The author attempts to illustrate how there might be so many possible realities in the narrative of the book. The reader ends up consuming several different versions of what might have been. Think of the multiple endings of Tolkien's Return of the King, but not quite as well executed.
Couple that with an ending that is essentially, "conflict resolved because we wish it to be so". It is a fantasy book, so I suppose that's as good an ending as any other, but it felt a bit unjustified.
If you enjoyed the first two books in the series, then you will enjoy this enough as well.
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