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Progress, something bad happens, progress, something bad happens, progress, something bad happens.

I also found the characters to be incredibly shallow and I’m growing tired of the “children with special abilities” trope, something that littered Laskys previous series “Wolves of the Beyond” they’re all different than others. I liked when Soren was just some owl who got owlnapped and that was all he had going for him from the very beginning. His dread of the pure ones and his will and faith to find the guardians was genuinely interested and I wanted to find out what happened to Soren after each book. But with these two new series, Wolves and Bears, nothing really sets them apart as special anymore. With Faolan, he had his splayed paw which left him an outcast, but that was taken away and didn’t really become much of an issue later. Now we have 3, three, special powers bears.

I felt this book was very similar to that of the fourth book in the Wolves series. The traveling happened, but I never felt like the character really went anywhere. The Roguers were a major big bad in this book, and yet I never really felt like the characters were in any real danger. Part of me wished they had gotten captured at the end just to see how these bears managed to escape, or stop the clock. Instead, they escaped the roguers and get to go on yet another long journey to find the forever frost cave. I’m going to read on, but I don’t have much interest in a third traveling book.

I’ll be taking a break from Lasky’s books for a moment.

I was recommended to read this book by one of my dnd buddies. He said it was pretty good and that was all it really was. It was “good” by means of the author has a way of painting the story with words. Though I found Viv’s, the main character, string of luck to be painfully boring. Each chapter something good happens to her and that which made the climax seem a lot less interesting. Especially considering all goes well after the climax, as stories go. It was incredibly boring.

Viv was an unlikeable character. She and Tandri both had nothing interesting to bring to the table which made the slight romance towards the end feel unnecessary.

Cal and Thimble were my favorite characters as Cal seemed to have a realistic personality and goal and Thimble was so under minded at the climax that I felt more bad for Thimble than I did Viv. All he could say was “oh no…” and he left???? That was it??? The place in which little man’s works is burned to the ground, his kitchen gone, his stove gone, and all he could do was an oh no and left? No shared grief with Viv and Tandri?

This book would have been better if each chapter hadn’t been good streak after good streak with the barest minimum tease of protagonists who turned out to be nobodies in the end. Fennus was barely a villain. The characters had almost no personality so it was hard to really feel anything for them.