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.