Stone of Farewell

The most middle middle to ever middle. It's not even a middle. It's an iddl.

There's a season of The Walking Dead where, after the heroes have been holed up in a prison that is attacked by enemies, they are then scattered in many directions. And the show spends episodes upon episodes upon episodes dealing with them all separately wandering around until they get to the point in which they all meet again.

This 800 page book is an elongated version of those episodes, but if every character stopped and talked about the history of every town and zombie and raccoon they wandered by.

I was gonna try to finish this trilogy before the end of the year, but I need a break. I'll read To Green Angel Tower next year.



Can someone tell me an attribute of Simon? Any attribute. Not being picky here. I can't think of anything. Alive? Is being alive an attribute?

Blah. This book was so unbelievably slow with almost no payoff. Far longer than it needed to be. I don't know if I can bear to read book 3 if its more of this. I adored book 1 despite its flaws. In this entry the flaws far outweighed the good.

Tad's storytelling is simply unparalleled if you take into consideration he wrote this series in the late 80's-early 90's. He later inspired George Martin, who's first three books in the game of thrones series are my favorite books of all time. So that is awesome to me. This book continues the story Simon after slaying the dragon in the previous book and he continues his journey with Binabik and Jiriki, who are trying to find the lost city of the Sithis to recruit them to find their own people. While Josua is seeking to regroup his army to fight his brother for the throne. Ineluki's powers are ramping up and I can already tell the next book is going to be dope

This was a bit of a letdown after a really enjoyable opening novel. Folks knock the first book because the first 200 pages are interminably slow. No one ever mentioned that the second book takes about 500(!) pages to really get going.

While The Dragonbone Chair raised many questions and provided few answers, Stone of Farewell raises very few questions and answers even fewer. Here's hoping the final doorstopper in the trilogy is packed to the brim with with action and plot development!

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Still amazing.

A long book - the good bits were excellent but there were some passages that I thought were overly long and overwritten and these got a little tedious. A little rest before I start the final (even longer) part

I love this series, but this is my least favorite of the three. Loved the world building of the first book...all of which play into the story moving forward. In this one there is a great deal of time is devoted to world building in the troll village and the sithi community...far too much time. I loathed the troll people by the time we were done with them and on our way. Happy to have this re-read behind me and am ready for the third and final installment.

I read the previous book, The Dragonbone Chair years ago, so I was glad to read the recap before reading on. There were times when the plot jumped around and I had trouble keeping track, but overall I liked this book and I look forward to reading the final book, To the Green Tower.