After the malice, degradation and horror of the first three book, Chaos and Order was an easier read, even though there as an undercurrent that things could go sideways at any moment. This final volume dispensed with most of the brutality, and was a fantastic read, I was welling up at the end.

The pacing initially seemed odd, how was he going to fill four to five hundred pages with the end game. Like most if his writing though, it was so well crafted and thought through, that any small missteps were glossed over and I hungrily devoured each page.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this volume, rampant misogyny of some of the male characters aside. While some outcomes were obvious, the path to them less so; which made the whole thing more enjoyable. How was that character going to die, how was this one going to escape, etc. You knew things were coming, but they were satisfying, rather than gut wrenching and nausea educing like the first few volumes in the series.

There were a few errors in the type setting of this version, which were slightly grating. The odd capitalised letter in the middle of words, drop letters from the start of characters names, plus the printing was faded in the middle of some of the pages and really heavy on others. Overall though these issues didn't detract too much for an riveting conclusion to this series of books. If you can get passed the first two books (three volumes) in the series, the pay off is well worth it.