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Title: disappointing end to a great series
Review: (spoiler review)The overall sense I got about this book is that the authors were pressured to put out another volume in the series. Their response? To virtually kill off the world of Ansalon as their readers know it. Sure, it survived, but it's not the same world it was -- all the gods are gone. Killing Tanis and Tas might have seemed like the final nail in the coffin, but I could have dealt with that had they provided better characters to take their places. However, the only truly complex character (Steel) dies in the final battle, leaving us with Palin (who somehow isn't terribly believable) and the fairly one-dimensional Usha. Very disappointing. All good things must come to an end; I just wish this had been a better one.
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