The Last Echo of the Lord of Bells

A pretty weak conclusion to a good series that really established John Bierce as a very talented fantasy author with a strong imagination and storytelling ability. This volume generally abandoned the strong character work done in the previous couple books for bloated, never-ending action scenes and very confusing character turnarounds. The ending failed to land the right way, and it seemed that the plot was pretty linear, even for a progression fantasy novel. Usually Bierce delivers pretty decent endings, so maybe with this one he probably just wrote himself into a wall and had too many threads to tie together. However, I'm willing to give Bierce a pass for this, and am looking forward to his next work with anticipation.