BOOK BLURB:The fifteenth and final novel in the celebrated Deverry series, an epic fantasy rooted in Celtic mythology that intricately interweaves human and elven history over several hundred years. Spurred on by the priestesses of the false goddess Alshandra, the Horsekin hordes are massing on the northern border of Prince Dar's holdings. Their leaders believe that the rich grasslands of the prince's domain belong to them by divine right, no matter whom they must destroy to claim them. But Dar has powerful allies on his side, including the dragon Arzosah, who has hated the Horsekin for hundreds of years. She will vow to take a revenge worse than anything the Horsekin and their priestesses could possibly foresee. The prince's most powerful ally, however, is the one the Horsekin refuse to understand: the deep magic of the dweomer, as wielded by the band of sorcerers sworn to protect him, and especially by the elven master of magic, Dallandra, the silver mage.
REVIEW:
If I’m going for honest here, I really do have to say that the series on the whole has dragged and become very convoluted as well as confusing as to each novel’s placement. So when I read that this novel was to be the final in the series, I pretty much raised the banner and celebrated and thought that I’d stick it out to see if the conclusion had been worth all that wading through of a number that felt full of not only waffle but unnecessary book filler. Which is pretty much what you got here, more filler developing the only aspect as yet that hadn’t been done to death in an over clichéd series. I really wish that the author had pulled the plug a few novels back before it got this silly. A great shame as I really had loved the earlier novels in the series.
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