Review: Good book but lacking
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 11, 2012
Overall this serious has been great.  It's a bit of a long paced story and not all enjoy that, though the first two books have a great deal of action and the characters are exceptional.  This book feels like a filler.  When the story picks up to the point of returning almost to the first two it ends.  This I found tremendously irritating.  Where the other books leave feeling like a portion of the story finished, this feels like a cliff hanger.  I'm not a fan of cliff hanger books and again it was very irritating (did I mention it was irritating).  It felt like the overall story plot of the series advanced none at all in this book other then relocating the characters from A to B which was done in just a few short chapters (if that) in the last.The book didn't feel like it added much to the overall story plot, in fact it felt like it should have been condensed into a few chapters. I think it's intent was adding some insight to the characters and the dynamics that flow between them.  I would say this is a character driven book more then anything in in that way it was enjoyable.  You get insights into Longswords past and childhood and some great interaction with the characters.  The dialog and such in this way was outstanding and I enjoyed it.I hope the next book comes out soon, I just don't like cliffhangers.  If you don't like the story ending abruptly and without any resolution then I'd probably hold off till the next book is off.  The 3 star for me wasn't because it was a bad book, in it's own right it was good, it just felt that it should not have been a book alone.  The focus of this book being the city according to the synopsis was a bit far off and vastly underwhelming since the majority of the story takes place otherwise.