The Final Gambit

"You may be tested by the flames, but you need not burn."

rating- 4/5
Fun, fast-paced read that makes you want to keep reading. Honest opinion: was this book needed? Probably not. Do I love it? Nope. But did I still enjoy it? Hell yeah.

The entire Blake plotline did seem sliiiightly contrived BUt, it's fine. It was not terrible.
I liked how it all seemed to fall in place with the chess coming full circle, the poem etcetc & Tobias Hawthorne's message was a good touch because it helped to see things from his pov.

Overall, happy I decided to pick it up but I did take a break in between book 2 & 3 so.., make of that, what you will.