Most of the book I was wondering what the ending will look like since there still seemed so much to do. Although it didn’t leave me quite satisfied, it was better than I had expected.
Short spoiler free review, I really loved this book, it's a perfectly crafted conclusion to this saga. I wasn't 100% sold on the first volume, even though I enjoyed it, it didn't really speak to me or knock my socks off. With the second volume however, I found my groove and got invested in the lives of the Sisters of Sweet Mercy. This third novel brought all the tangled ends together in a thoroughly satisfying culmination. Well done.
Mark always know how to leave you wanting more. I've read everything he's published and enjoyed all his stories for what they are. Usually a narrow glimpse at a world that has seen it's moment in the sun (hah.) I enjoyed this series but like others felt like it could have been longer. This book was two tales in one. One carrying over from the previous book about Nona's escape and the other where Nona is finishing up her training and a war that kicks out on her doorstep rather quickly.
There is a vastness of untold legacy powers, terrain, technology and more that is left by the wayside. Just like previous books. I can't be mad, but I can always be hungry.
The cadence of this book is off a bit due to the weave of two time periods put into one. Each one however within those are timed …
Mark always know how to leave you wanting more. I've read everything he's published and enjoyed all his stories for what they are. Usually a narrow glimpse at a world that has seen it's moment in the sun (hah.) I enjoyed this series but like others felt like it could have been longer. This book was two tales in one. One carrying over from the previous book about Nona's escape and the other where Nona is finishing up her training and a war that kicks out on her doorstep rather quickly.
There is a vastness of untold legacy powers, terrain, technology and more that is left by the wayside. Just like previous books. I can't be mad, but I can always be hungry.
The cadence of this book is off a bit due to the weave of two time periods put into one. Each one however within those are timed pretty well. Solid book, solid finish. The details get sorted how they need to be and you as a reader can feel in some way complete for the telling. As any last book, I won't give you much here because it is the ending but if you've read the first two this will just about slot right into where it needs to go.
Mark, make novelettes of the missing pieces sometime. I'm content picking up a small bit of before, or during, or after, or of life, or more snapshots. You do such a good job at worldbuilding.
The Book of the Ancestor says that for everything there is a season. This was a time to reap. A time for death. A time to die.
Excellent finale for an excellent series!
I was a bit put off by the two timelines (current and three years earlier) and wondered why Lawrence chose to intertwine them, but it was a nice way to withhold information that telling the story chronologically wouldn't have achieved.
The fight matters. But in the end it is never truly won or lost, and victory lies in discovering that we are bigger than it is.
This story is all go go go. You may find a little reprieve from one timeline to the other but it's short lived before you are off and running with the plot again. I was lukewarm on previous stories from Lawrence but this won me over.
Book of the Ancestor was …
The Book of the Ancestor says that for everything there is a season. This was a time to reap. A time for death. A time to die.
Excellent finale for an excellent series!
I was a bit put off by the two timelines (current and three years earlier) and wondered why Lawrence chose to intertwine them, but it was a nice way to withhold information that telling the story chronologically wouldn't have achieved.
The fight matters. But in the end it is never truly won or lost, and victory lies in discovering that we are bigger than it is.
This story is all go go go. You may find a little reprieve from one timeline to the other but it's short lived before you are off and running with the plot again. I was lukewarm on previous stories from Lawrence but this won me over.
Book of the Ancestor was excellent front to back and Lawrence brought the story together in a satisfying manner while leaving a little bit of a hint regarding the mystery of the Ark and Missing.
Truly impressed with the series and would consider a re-read in the future when I'm stuck on books.
I highlighted too many lines and wrote too short of a review so the remainder of the note worthy quotes are below:
One word will break a heart, two will mend it, and three will lay the highest low.
As Keot had once told her: your foes shape your life more than friends ever could.
Moons might rise and fall, empires wax and wane, even the stars come and go, but there are constants too, and though the story of our kind is ever-changing it is also always the same.