The Book that Held Her Heart

I loved the world of the library and all the characters in it. I liked the long view of history and the questions it probed about human morality, the cycle of violence, and the power of knowledge.

But this book was such a horrible, awful, epileptic ending to this trilogy. It felt like sitting in front of the TV while the channel changed every 15 seconds. The timelines, alternate realities and characters (+ their many alternate versions) jumped around so much I was physically frustrated.

There was no following this plot- it grasped for deeper meaning through the library’s fate, but failed to execute. The themes were overstated, essentially nothing happened in the plot except a ton of jumping around in time and universes, the romances were flimsy, and I couldn’t find it in me to care about any of the characters I had come to love in the first two books.

They were all thrown together in this last novel to chaotic ends. I only finished this out of loyalty to the world I loved from the first two books. Wholly jolting and unsatisfying.

Still appreciate this series and can only imagine how much effort and emotion went into creating it. I feel the need to say that I’m always grateful for authors out there creating magical worlds for us and have so much respect for what it takes in spite of this review.