Finished this series earlier this year and I 100% agree with your thoughts. I loved books 1 & 2, book 3 still worked for me but agreed it's not the most satisfying ending. Definitely hit the nail on the head when you said this series is a bit directionless - as a character focused reader that LOVES theoretical conversations - this ate but I can see how it wouldn't appeal to others.
I'm happy to see that you managed to somehow like the last one. The second one was my favorite too but I gave the last one a very generous 2 stars. It's not about me not having what I wanted, I just found that some of the character's motivations stopped making sense (why were they focused on making the sinister plot happen in the first place ? Wasn't it the whole point of Libby's actions at the end of book 2 to prevent it from happening ?) It was also not well written, the useless philosopical disgression became really annoying. The pretentious writing style was well handled in the first two books but not in this one. Ultimately the real issue of the last book for me is that it made the whole serie feel completely pointless and ruined some character's arcs. Since the characters were the strongest point of the serie, there wasn't much left to the books after that. So not all the bad reviews are about my ship didn't happen or my fav didn't get what I wanted for them. This is also what I assumed before reading it and I was proven wrong.
Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts, that's completely fair! My interpretation (***slight spoilers ahead***) - - - In the final book, when Libby kept saying she didn't want to go ahead with the 'sinister plan' (which lined up with her actions at the end of book two) I thought she eventually agreed because she saw it as a way of solving the other issue (with the library trying to kill them). I thought she'd realised that some of the other characters were never going to give up on wanting to test the plan, and it was the only way she could think to end it. I thought the author was trying to show how even the more moral characters could be corrupted by their desire to pursue knowledge regardless of the consequences. I might be wrong, it was very confusing at times!
@@GriffReads yes the book sure was confusing in a lot of parts 😅 I didn't read that in Libby at all. It really felt like she realised the price of the experience in the middle of it and certainly not before that
No i haven´t read it but you made me wanna read the first book. And i do like character driven books but i don´t read that much heavy fantasy. Is it light on the fantasy?
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