Review: So many great things but some not so great things.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 6, 2012
I have read and enjoyed several of Georgia Fox's The Conquerors series, but this one should have had a few more go rounds in revision.I LOVED the dialogue.  As always Georgia Fox excels with making her characters talk. I laughed out loud during the part where Ami is questioning the whore while trying to keep her maid from eavesdropping. I LOVED Ami and thought she was wonderfully flawed and fearless without being annoyingly bratty. The ditzy maid was fabulous.I had trouble with the plot line and felt the double ending needed a lot more work. Both plot lines had endings that just fell flat. I guess this story was supposed to be the total wrap up the whole series. I can see how this idea might seem appealing. The reality of trying to remember all the characters from all the other stories, without any sort of hint helping to jog overloaded memories, having these characters simply appear at the end, some continuing a story line from a previous book that I vaguely recalled, it just didn't work. It might have worked had there been some threads to recap the other stories, some hints about these people possibly showing up. For me, it had been a while since I read the other books and when those names stared popping up at the end, it took me a while to catch on that I was expected to know these characters already.The final final ending would have worked perfectly had I come to it with a clear idea of who was who. But since I was still trying to wrack my brain, "was I supposed to remember these names from a previous book" the ending was not as impactful as it could have been.That was hard to do without spoiling it!