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The Iron Palace: The Shadowed Path: Book 3

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I have been waiting and waiting for this book to come out. I was SO ready to see how the main characters lives played out. I am not going to spoil it for anyone. However, I was depressed at the end. When you read it you will understand, I knew it was all down hill after the "eye" thing. Made my heart hurt, after three books I just wanted happiness.

However, great trilogy. I recommend the books.

Having enjoyed Morgan Howell's Queen of the Orcs trilogy and the first two books in this one, I was eager to complete the trilogy. I was disappointed in the last book because Yim and Honus had to suffer even more and be parted seemingly forever.

Seventeen years have passed and Yim and her son have been living in relative safety in the Gray Fens while mother tries to keep a dark secret from her son. Of course, such an effort has come to naught as the servants of Lord Bahl are determined to have their Lord back and usher in another dark era. There's three different main storylines in this - Froan's search for his destiny, Yim's search for her son, and Honus' search for Yim. There's a few other storylines (revolving around Gorm, for example)

Morgan Howell's writing ability alone deserves five - no, ten - stars. He has a skillful pen and can describe things wonderfully and realistically, and I am in awe of his creativity.

However, what made me drop the overall rating to three stars is the way this story ended. Yim has been through so much, god dang it, and then for Gorm to do what he did to her just crushed me. She has been through so much, I wanted her to have a break for once! But nooo... :( Her connection with Karm is revealed, and that also affected the rating of this book - it made no sense to me and was a letdown. If this book had ended differently, I would have given it a higher rating.