Underlord

I thought this was the end of the series so to reach the end of the book and see that there is another was a bit disappointing. Even though I wasn't enjoying the series entirely I stuck with it to see how it played out but I won't return for book seven whenever it's released.

I was curious what the Uncrowned King Tournament would look like but also thought that these people are having another tournament? If every Harry Potter book had the Triwizard Tournament occurring it would become a bit tedious. To challenge the apocalyptic threat let's put our best and talented students against each other to thin our ranks and then go in to a war that would last generations.

These stories are too short to have any political motives so the grievances with Lindon and others feel retaliatory in nature, superficial and very repetitive. Family A wants vengeance on Lindon but he outsmarted them again and now Family B wants a piece of Lindon.

One noteworthy difference in Underlord is that we learned valuable backstory with some characters. There was tension with Yerin and her need to advance and even Orthos received more than a grumpy one liner.

If book seven was available now I would keep on reading but I am not enjoying the story enough to come back down the road to see how it plays out.