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The Gateway Trilogy #3
Tether
**Description Contains Book 2 Spoilers**
Ember was only trying to keep a promise when she jumped into the demon world. But instead of saving Cole and his people, she found herself just as trapped as they are. She lives and learns with the Daemon survivors while the demon threat grows every day.
Meanwhile Taren struggles with his guilt for not stopping Ember. He’s desperate to know she’s alive, but there's been no sign of her except in his own vivid dreams.
As they struggle to reconnect, the Gateways around the world weaken, and the demons begin to amass for war. The end is near and Ember must face her fears if she has any hope of saving the world – or herself.
With everything falling apart, her only hope is to find...her Tether.
Ember was only trying to keep a promise when she jumped into the demon world. But instead of saving Cole and his people, she found herself just as trapped as they are. She lives and learns with the Daemon survivors while the demon threat grows every day.
Meanwhile Taren struggles with his guilt for not stopping Ember. He’s desperate to know she’s alive, but there's been no sign of her except in his own vivid dreams.
As they struggle to reconnect, the Gateways around the world weaken, and the demons begin to amass for war. The end is near and Ember must face her fears if she has any hope of saving the world – or herself.
With everything falling apart, her only hope is to find...her Tether.
- GenresFantasy
289 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 23, 2014
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Christina Garner
22 books139 followersChristina Garner writes page-turning YA urban fantasy, witchy romance, and paranormal women’s fiction with women owning their power.
When she’s not dreaming up new characters and the worlds they inhabit, you’ll find her traveling, enjoying good food with great friends, and hiking the Hollywood Hills.
When she’s not dreaming up new characters and the worlds they inhabit, you’ll find her traveling, enjoying good food with great friends, and hiking the Hollywood Hills.
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January 1, 2017
As might be expected, Taren appears to be fraying at the seams of what keeps him together under the tremendous pressure of being a guardian. That Kat intercepted his efforts to grab hold of Ember before she reached the Roman Gateway has played havoc with their close friendship, to which he repays that act with silence. In his dreams he is successful in his grab, holding Ember back from her attempt. His love for her is now turning to hatred in himself, as he sees his unsuccessful attempts to stop her as a failure in his duty to protect her. Having previously communicated with Ember telepathically, at least once that is, Kat suggests Taren try to see if he can initiate the same process with his mother, Gretchen.
Given Gretchen's heritage is the same as Ember's it means that Taren too has some Daemon genetics within him too. After just two sessions of trying to find the key to telepathically communicating Taren begins to get a greater appreciation for what Ember and his mother have gone through. His frustrations build and hunting demons becomes his outlet of the rising angst. As Taren uses the demons from the breach for a 'punching bag' of sorts, killing them ruthlessly, we are privy to a greater closeup on the demons than that which has come before. Taren's overall wellbeing and state of mind suffer under his need to do what ever it takes to locate and retrieve Ember, during his daylight hours; followed by the patrols and killing that takes place at night, burning his candle too fully.
For Ember time has passed differently in the demon dimension, indeed a lot more time has passed. Just as the level-headed Master Dogan had suggested, Ember's approaching the start of her third month in this realm of constant danger and struggles to merely stay alive. She's been found by her bounty and has been extremely busy. Between trying to just stay alive and practicing survival and daemon drills she's likely surpassing the exhaustion that even Taren is experiencing. Cole has been true to his word and is training Ember alongside his sister, Sadah, in an oasis of sorts, a place where very few demons ever pass through.
Ember's thoughts of Taren that come when there's little to distract her mind, are of his inner turmoil and what he was like before he'd drawn the conclusion that he failed her. The thoughts she's having are more of a telepathic, but silent, connection to what he is going through. Ember longs to put at rest Taren's psyche, to erase his belief and ease his sense of self-doubt, to make him realise that he could never have failed her by being unable to stop what she had to do. Her actions were necessary for her to be able to live with herself in any future they might be able to have together, and definitely in any world she'd accept enough to breath easier..
Cole's training of Ember is in the proper use of her daemon heritage, she can now easily open herself up to the Chasm of inexhaustible power, a relic of the casting done two millennia ago when the war saw the Earth bound daemons splitting the dimensions into two: banishing the purists who tried to sanction the human evolution of half-breeds and intermarriage with humans. But Cole never allows her to tap into the enormous well of power, despite her argument that she's ready. Both her and Cole know she's more capable than he's allowing her to be. Acting like a beacon to the demons in her new realm, tapping into that power would draw too much attention, and he doesn't consider her ready yet to do so without having the strength to use the Chasm to repel attacks and escape the dire situation they're in. Hence the incessant physical and mental drills that tire her until she's perpetually exhausted all of the time. Nonetheless, she knows in her every instinct that there's something very important that she's not being told of.
As she goes over her recollection of the initial events that played out after her plummet into the dark and blackened dimension of demons of every type, Ember showed a rather inspirational resourcefulness in hiding her scent. She knew that until she could contact Cole that she needed to locate a place of relative safety to hole up, whilst awaiting some of the pain to lessen in her severely twisted ankle. But alas, she could not locate anything remotely close to resembling safety. She moved on slowly, with her eyes closed to avoid airborne debris and detritus which took flight in the moisture sapping hot winds. The blackness of the air and terrain meant keeping her eyes closed, but was no more detrimental than if she were constantly dealing with the unknown contaminants getting stuck in her eyes. Moving along on her hands and knees she did what she could to keep moving, and to stop her mind from retreating too far, from curling up in a ball and giving up, staying exposed until one or more demons finally located her and put an end to her all encomposing depression at having failed to locate Cole and his group, any stuck in this dimension.
Later, she does achieve a large step forward in the rationalisation of a belief Master Dogan had attempted to instill in her, as she'd attempted to come to terms with the suicidal jump into the mouth of the first Root Demon in order to destroy it, what now fealt like a lifetime ago. He'd meant to show her how fear could be alleviated through the acceptance of what cannot be controlled in one's life. How acceptance of death put to rest the many things that people learnt to fear losing. As Ember now considers the pain of being killed by demons, she understands that it would only be temporary, as death would put an end to it. The fear of losing her loved ones would be temporary, as death puts an end to it, and those loved ones move on as humans always eventually do. The fear of death itself is a bridge she'd already crossed back when she attempted suicide. The fear of an afterlife not occurring is redundant, it either is or it isn't, but if not she'd be none the wiser as she'd be dead anyway. Going over the small steps of awareness regarding the many fears that kept her immobilised, she finally came to the awareness Master Dogan was trying to help her achieve. That awareness eventually becomes the means of freeing her from her fears and allowing her to continue on. She might not fear death or the things that would come about because of it, but that didn't mean she was ready to give up yet, or at all, her survival instincts were still present and strong after all.
Cole and his group, like their ancestors since the time they'd become stuck on the wrong side of the Gateway, couldn't access the Chasm as Ember could. In Cole's time he'd known only the one other girl, Zoe, who could but she had died several years ago and no one would discuss the reasons why. During the breach of the Roman Gateway, when Cole had heard through Ember's connection to him that Gretchen was moving to close that Gateway, he'd become morose when he began to realise that his group wouldn't be able to escape through the current breach into Earth. As such he wasn't watching to see that Ember had chosen the only way at that point in time that she saw as being able to follow through on her promise to save them all. Had he known two distinct things would've been done differently: he'd have been out in the region of the Gateway to halt her fall and prevent the damage to her ankle and to bring her safely back to the oasis straight away; and he'd have stopped her from making the jump at all.
If opening the Gateway from the demon side was possible then he and his group wouldn't have needed rescuing. Ember's assumptions that she would be able to locate them and just provide the opening from the present side she's now in was faulty according to the daemons on the demon side, and never discussed with Cole until after the breach and her jump through the Gateway. Their hopes now relied on Ember finding a way to communicate telepathically with Gretchen and to have her open the Gateway for them. She'd also need telekinesis to help raise everyone through the tunnel. After seventy-two days she was still working on strengthening her mind, closing it off to intrusion and transmitting thoughts unintentionally, and in communicating telepathically.
Ember fealt a strong need to rush through training to get to where they needed her to be. She knew that with use of the Chasm she'd be able to do anything she wanted to do. Of the thirty or so people in the group, apart from Sadah's baby, the ages ranged from fifteen to twenty-six, a very telling sign of age expectancy in the demon dimension. Add in the fact that when she'd awoken from her recovery on the third day following passing out from dehydration, there was a running waterfall inside their oasis which now moved only at a small trickle, leaving the conclusion that time is fast running out.
I said it in my last review of Christina's eye opening trilogy, my review of Chasm, but I'll reinforce it here again; the fantasy elements of her outstanding trilogy are in full swing yet again. Her reimagined lore of the creation of demons in the alternate dimension better known as Hell in the greatest majority of other fantasy novels, but conceptualised differently herein, is water tight and completely unique. The evolution of the species as an ideological possibility, say in comparison to the beliefs that they were originally Angels who'd fallen from His grace (as they're considered almost everywhere else), is comparable to the similar structural differences in the beliefs of the big bang theory versus the creation theories of humankind themselves. Being correct or even viable are considerations that are unimportant in the end. Fantasy books, as in the case of science fiction, or any fiction when all is said and done, aren't about what is right and wrong: they're about what is completed sufficiently enough to answer the intermittent questions readers have, when they're conceptualising the world created by the respective author(s) in the stories those concepts are contained within.
The added element of the alternating point-of-view between the two most important protagonists, between Ember and Taren, in this third and final book is both timely and enriching. That same new addition works well, as it often does, in increasing the perceived fast pacing of the story in Tether. The utilitarian way the book titles have a function for what aspects of the plot become important in some way is surprisingly intuitive, once you work out the connections at play. The name of the trilogy is much more obvious than the ways the individual names of each book are used; definitely for books two and three, but still for book one as well - even if that book's name is closer to matching how the trilogy as a whole was named. Readers like to have pieces of the puzzle that they solve almost exclusively on their own, but they also concurrently like to see times when the author(s) leads them to the river to drink. A steady balance of mystery and clues are necessary to bolster intrigue and to captivate readers into wanting to make the full journey through all the books. The Gateway Trilogy offers this and so much more, and I have no doubts that once you've started on this path you'll make the full trip as I have done,
Chrixtina has woven into her stories the many life messages we lose sight of in our day-to-day lives. As above there is the masterful approach to the fantastical components of The Gateway Trilogy, and its easy to get lost in realising just those aspects, given how rich they are. But there's also the resounding messages for which you could spend hours locating and critiquing, but then many would subsequently arrive at the same thoughts I'd have regarding spoilers and whether there'd be any point to reading it yourself. However, I would like to offer some insight into what Tether taught me in its closing moments, that is to say, other than how perfectly the choreography of the story ended.
People send out into the world the negative emotions they wish to rid themselves of. This negative energy has to go somewhere, and if people aren't careful that energy can manifest into a force for those things our morals tell us are evil. You need to have ownership over whatever darkness is in you. Not to suggest you should enact what those sentiments bring with them, but to identify and deal with them until they no longer have any power over our behaviour, and in particular the things they might cause in external forces outside our control. We each have things we'd rather not deal with, but in not dealing with them they are given the power to act by themselves, reaching a critical mass to act in the only way they know how; through the darkness that empowered them. Hats off to Christina for one of the best trilogies/series I've read to date.
Given Gretchen's heritage is the same as Ember's it means that Taren too has some Daemon genetics within him too. After just two sessions of trying to find the key to telepathically communicating Taren begins to get a greater appreciation for what Ember and his mother have gone through. His frustrations build and hunting demons becomes his outlet of the rising angst. As Taren uses the demons from the breach for a 'punching bag' of sorts, killing them ruthlessly, we are privy to a greater closeup on the demons than that which has come before. Taren's overall wellbeing and state of mind suffer under his need to do what ever it takes to locate and retrieve Ember, during his daylight hours; followed by the patrols and killing that takes place at night, burning his candle too fully.
For Ember time has passed differently in the demon dimension, indeed a lot more time has passed. Just as the level-headed Master Dogan had suggested, Ember's approaching the start of her third month in this realm of constant danger and struggles to merely stay alive. She's been found by her bounty and has been extremely busy. Between trying to just stay alive and practicing survival and daemon drills she's likely surpassing the exhaustion that even Taren is experiencing. Cole has been true to his word and is training Ember alongside his sister, Sadah, in an oasis of sorts, a place where very few demons ever pass through.
Ember's thoughts of Taren that come when there's little to distract her mind, are of his inner turmoil and what he was like before he'd drawn the conclusion that he failed her. The thoughts she's having are more of a telepathic, but silent, connection to what he is going through. Ember longs to put at rest Taren's psyche, to erase his belief and ease his sense of self-doubt, to make him realise that he could never have failed her by being unable to stop what she had to do. Her actions were necessary for her to be able to live with herself in any future they might be able to have together, and definitely in any world she'd accept enough to breath easier..
Cole's training of Ember is in the proper use of her daemon heritage, she can now easily open herself up to the Chasm of inexhaustible power, a relic of the casting done two millennia ago when the war saw the Earth bound daemons splitting the dimensions into two: banishing the purists who tried to sanction the human evolution of half-breeds and intermarriage with humans. But Cole never allows her to tap into the enormous well of power, despite her argument that she's ready. Both her and Cole know she's more capable than he's allowing her to be. Acting like a beacon to the demons in her new realm, tapping into that power would draw too much attention, and he doesn't consider her ready yet to do so without having the strength to use the Chasm to repel attacks and escape the dire situation they're in. Hence the incessant physical and mental drills that tire her until she's perpetually exhausted all of the time. Nonetheless, she knows in her every instinct that there's something very important that she's not being told of.
As she goes over her recollection of the initial events that played out after her plummet into the dark and blackened dimension of demons of every type, Ember showed a rather inspirational resourcefulness in hiding her scent. She knew that until she could contact Cole that she needed to locate a place of relative safety to hole up, whilst awaiting some of the pain to lessen in her severely twisted ankle. But alas, she could not locate anything remotely close to resembling safety. She moved on slowly, with her eyes closed to avoid airborne debris and detritus which took flight in the moisture sapping hot winds. The blackness of the air and terrain meant keeping her eyes closed, but was no more detrimental than if she were constantly dealing with the unknown contaminants getting stuck in her eyes. Moving along on her hands and knees she did what she could to keep moving, and to stop her mind from retreating too far, from curling up in a ball and giving up, staying exposed until one or more demons finally located her and put an end to her all encomposing depression at having failed to locate Cole and his group, any stuck in this dimension.
Later, she does achieve a large step forward in the rationalisation of a belief Master Dogan had attempted to instill in her, as she'd attempted to come to terms with the suicidal jump into the mouth of the first Root Demon in order to destroy it, what now fealt like a lifetime ago. He'd meant to show her how fear could be alleviated through the acceptance of what cannot be controlled in one's life. How acceptance of death put to rest the many things that people learnt to fear losing. As Ember now considers the pain of being killed by demons, she understands that it would only be temporary, as death would put an end to it. The fear of losing her loved ones would be temporary, as death puts an end to it, and those loved ones move on as humans always eventually do. The fear of death itself is a bridge she'd already crossed back when she attempted suicide. The fear of an afterlife not occurring is redundant, it either is or it isn't, but if not she'd be none the wiser as she'd be dead anyway. Going over the small steps of awareness regarding the many fears that kept her immobilised, she finally came to the awareness Master Dogan was trying to help her achieve. That awareness eventually becomes the means of freeing her from her fears and allowing her to continue on. She might not fear death or the things that would come about because of it, but that didn't mean she was ready to give up yet, or at all, her survival instincts were still present and strong after all.
Cole and his group, like their ancestors since the time they'd become stuck on the wrong side of the Gateway, couldn't access the Chasm as Ember could. In Cole's time he'd known only the one other girl, Zoe, who could but she had died several years ago and no one would discuss the reasons why. During the breach of the Roman Gateway, when Cole had heard through Ember's connection to him that Gretchen was moving to close that Gateway, he'd become morose when he began to realise that his group wouldn't be able to escape through the current breach into Earth. As such he wasn't watching to see that Ember had chosen the only way at that point in time that she saw as being able to follow through on her promise to save them all. Had he known two distinct things would've been done differently: he'd have been out in the region of the Gateway to halt her fall and prevent the damage to her ankle and to bring her safely back to the oasis straight away; and he'd have stopped her from making the jump at all.
If opening the Gateway from the demon side was possible then he and his group wouldn't have needed rescuing. Ember's assumptions that she would be able to locate them and just provide the opening from the present side she's now in was faulty according to the daemons on the demon side, and never discussed with Cole until after the breach and her jump through the Gateway. Their hopes now relied on Ember finding a way to communicate telepathically with Gretchen and to have her open the Gateway for them. She'd also need telekinesis to help raise everyone through the tunnel. After seventy-two days she was still working on strengthening her mind, closing it off to intrusion and transmitting thoughts unintentionally, and in communicating telepathically.
Ember fealt a strong need to rush through training to get to where they needed her to be. She knew that with use of the Chasm she'd be able to do anything she wanted to do. Of the thirty or so people in the group, apart from Sadah's baby, the ages ranged from fifteen to twenty-six, a very telling sign of age expectancy in the demon dimension. Add in the fact that when she'd awoken from her recovery on the third day following passing out from dehydration, there was a running waterfall inside their oasis which now moved only at a small trickle, leaving the conclusion that time is fast running out.
I said it in my last review of Christina's eye opening trilogy, my review of Chasm, but I'll reinforce it here again; the fantasy elements of her outstanding trilogy are in full swing yet again. Her reimagined lore of the creation of demons in the alternate dimension better known as Hell in the greatest majority of other fantasy novels, but conceptualised differently herein, is water tight and completely unique. The evolution of the species as an ideological possibility, say in comparison to the beliefs that they were originally Angels who'd fallen from His grace (as they're considered almost everywhere else), is comparable to the similar structural differences in the beliefs of the big bang theory versus the creation theories of humankind themselves. Being correct or even viable are considerations that are unimportant in the end. Fantasy books, as in the case of science fiction, or any fiction when all is said and done, aren't about what is right and wrong: they're about what is completed sufficiently enough to answer the intermittent questions readers have, when they're conceptualising the world created by the respective author(s) in the stories those concepts are contained within.
The added element of the alternating point-of-view between the two most important protagonists, between Ember and Taren, in this third and final book is both timely and enriching. That same new addition works well, as it often does, in increasing the perceived fast pacing of the story in Tether. The utilitarian way the book titles have a function for what aspects of the plot become important in some way is surprisingly intuitive, once you work out the connections at play. The name of the trilogy is much more obvious than the ways the individual names of each book are used; definitely for books two and three, but still for book one as well - even if that book's name is closer to matching how the trilogy as a whole was named. Readers like to have pieces of the puzzle that they solve almost exclusively on their own, but they also concurrently like to see times when the author(s) leads them to the river to drink. A steady balance of mystery and clues are necessary to bolster intrigue and to captivate readers into wanting to make the full journey through all the books. The Gateway Trilogy offers this and so much more, and I have no doubts that once you've started on this path you'll make the full trip as I have done,
Chrixtina has woven into her stories the many life messages we lose sight of in our day-to-day lives. As above there is the masterful approach to the fantastical components of The Gateway Trilogy, and its easy to get lost in realising just those aspects, given how rich they are. But there's also the resounding messages for which you could spend hours locating and critiquing, but then many would subsequently arrive at the same thoughts I'd have regarding spoilers and whether there'd be any point to reading it yourself. However, I would like to offer some insight into what Tether taught me in its closing moments, that is to say, other than how perfectly the choreography of the story ended.
People send out into the world the negative emotions they wish to rid themselves of. This negative energy has to go somewhere, and if people aren't careful that energy can manifest into a force for those things our morals tell us are evil. You need to have ownership over whatever darkness is in you. Not to suggest you should enact what those sentiments bring with them, but to identify and deal with them until they no longer have any power over our behaviour, and in particular the things they might cause in external forces outside our control. We each have things we'd rather not deal with, but in not dealing with them they are given the power to act by themselves, reaching a critical mass to act in the only way they know how; through the darkness that empowered them. Hats off to Christina for one of the best trilogies/series I've read to date.
November 20, 2014
Picking up where book #2 left off, Tether pulls you in immediately and doesn't let go until the very last word. Even then, I wished it hadn't ended! There's so much to love here: paranormal stuff, magic, action, adventure, love, hope, and more! Everything flows smoothly, and I felt the end did the series justice. I couldn't have been happier! Over the course of this trilogy, the characters have grown and developed into people I could envision knowing.
I highly recommend this books, this whole series! It's a wild ride from start to finish and I can't wait to see what's next for this amazing author!!
I highly recommend this books, this whole series! It's a wild ride from start to finish and I can't wait to see what's next for this amazing author!!
August 19, 2025
Tether (The Gateway Trilogy Book 3)
Tether (The Gateway Trilogy Book 3) by Christina Garner ~~ The conclusion to the Gateway Trilogy is nothing short of breathtaking. Tether ties together every thread from the first two books while delivering new surprises, emotional punches, and jaw-dropping revelations. Ember’s journey comes full circle, and I loved seeing her embrace her strength while staying true to her heart. The emotional stakes are just as gripping as the action scenes, and the romance reaches a deeply satisfying resolution. Christina Garner knows how to keep readers turning pages late into the night, and she delivered a finale that was thrilling, heartfelt, and unforgettable. I closed this book feeling both completely satisfied and wishing I could read it all over again. I absolutely loved this book and highly recommend the entire series. ❤️
Tether (The Gateway Trilogy Book 3) by Christina Garner ~~ The conclusion to the Gateway Trilogy is nothing short of breathtaking. Tether ties together every thread from the first two books while delivering new surprises, emotional punches, and jaw-dropping revelations. Ember’s journey comes full circle, and I loved seeing her embrace her strength while staying true to her heart. The emotional stakes are just as gripping as the action scenes, and the romance reaches a deeply satisfying resolution. Christina Garner knows how to keep readers turning pages late into the night, and she delivered a finale that was thrilling, heartfelt, and unforgettable. I closed this book feeling both completely satisfied and wishing I could read it all over again. I absolutely loved this book and highly recommend the entire series. ❤️
March 27, 2020
Excellent ending
Ember, Tarin, Cole...They all have a pivotal role in this final book. Ember jumped and ended up on the other side. She eventually is found by Cole and she realized she is with the last of the daemons. The demons continue to hunt them, and their very lives may depend on Ember accessing the chasm.
Tarin was devastated when he lost Ember and if not for Kat, would be useless. But he is dedicated to finding her. And when he does....
Ember is amazing and with Cole is the strongest daemon alive. The Colony is found and the real work begins. The demons are ready to storm through the gates. What happens will shock and inspire you. It's a great ending to a fabulous story.
Read on my friends
Ember, Tarin, Cole...They all have a pivotal role in this final book. Ember jumped and ended up on the other side. She eventually is found by Cole and she realized she is with the last of the daemons. The demons continue to hunt them, and their very lives may depend on Ember accessing the chasm.
Tarin was devastated when he lost Ember and if not for Kat, would be useless. But he is dedicated to finding her. And when he does....
Ember is amazing and with Cole is the strongest daemon alive. The Colony is found and the real work begins. The demons are ready to storm through the gates. What happens will shock and inspire you. It's a great ending to a fabulous story.
Read on my friends
April 30, 2019
This trilogy got better with each book. The first laid the groundwork but was interesting enough to prompt me to continue and I'm glad I did. While I'd like the ultimate revelation to have been fleshed out a bit more, I still enjoyed it. Very interesting solution; applicable to so many things outside of the book itself.
Also, I'm pretty sure Kat is my soulmate, so if any of you out there are the personification of her, please hit me up. :-)
Also, I'm pretty sure Kat is my soulmate, so if any of you out there are the personification of her, please hit me up. :-)
September 4, 2023
Ember and Taren face the third installment of their struggle to guard the gateways and thus the world. They work from opposite sides, hoping to find their way back to each other. Will their hopes come to fruition? Or will they finally face a demon even they and their loved ones can’t conquer together?
The first two thirds of this book were well paced then it felt like a race to get it over and questions answered. Might have just been me having more questions.
The first two thirds of this book were well paced then it felt like a race to get it over and questions answered. Might have just been me having more questions.
September 25, 2022
Book 3 of the Gateway Trilogy was surprisingly hopeful in the face of possible annihilation. Usually, in such trilogies, the good guy kills the bad guy, and everyone lives happily ever after. But there is so much more to this story. The author really gets to the core of what are you the most afraid of, and what would you do for love.
March 12, 2019
This was the longest book in the series and could have been the same length. Garner is an imaginative writer but my complaint is her lack of character descriptions, humans and nonhuman alike. I found this troubling.
June 24, 2020
Underwhelming for the last book
As the last book in the series , it was a bit underwhelming ending. I enjoyed the beginning of the story. But then it kinda fizzled. It did end on a happy-ish note.
As the last book in the series , it was a bit underwhelming ending. I enjoyed the beginning of the story. But then it kinda fizzled. It did end on a happy-ish note.
February 20, 2019
It was an unexpected ending. I like that I didn't predict the ending, but I'm not sure whether I like the actual conclusion. However, I most definitely enjoyed the trilogy as a whole.
March 20, 2019
Riveting series
Riveting series. Absolutely loved this series. I wish there was more of it. The characters were strong willed and so fully into their beliefs
Riveting series. Absolutely loved this series. I wish there was more of it. The characters were strong willed and so fully into their beliefs
March 25, 2019
I am really impressed with how this book finished and how the series progressed. I would recommend this series to anyone who likes the mortal instruments series!
June 8, 2020
It took me a while to finish this trilogy. I liked the storyline but some of the information weren't as clear as I hoped it would have been. The ending was alright, but it felt incredibly rushed.
March 25, 2021
Great read
I really enjoyed this series. I loved the world building, and the characters were easy to get into. I will try another series from this author
I really enjoyed this series. I loved the world building, and the characters were easy to get into. I will try another series from this author
October 2, 2020
Probably the best until the end.
The end felt forced and rushed!
It was good because Ember and Cole truly make a good team. Their hearts are In the right place which in turns strengthens them when needing to save people.
As I mentioned the end felt very forced!
Like the author didn’t know where to lead with it. I don’t know. The end could have been a bit different I feel.
The end felt forced and rushed!
It was good because Ember and Cole truly make a good team. Their hearts are In the right place which in turns strengthens them when needing to save people.
As I mentioned the end felt very forced!
Like the author didn’t know where to lead with it. I don’t know. The end could have been a bit different I feel.
March 23, 2015
review also in my blog:
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This book is frenetic!! I’ve read it right after the second book and finished it in a few hours because I couldn’t stop myself each chapter was even more intriguing than the previous one. The fact that this book is divided between Ember and Tare’s pov just make it much better and we start with Taren, about a week after Ember jump through the gate. He’s devastated and keep having dreams where he actually stopped her before she went through the portal just to wake up and realize it’s not true. He blames Kat for stopping him and keep pushing his mother to find a way to contact Ember, but nothing has changed since the day she crossed the gate. Taren has a lot of discussion with his father and he patrols recklessly to release all his anger and frustration while Ember in the other realm is training with the daemons that aren’t evil and just as trapped there as her. The place is horrible and people have to work hard to just survive for the day, and there’s always danger around them, we also learn that while only a week has gone by in Taren’s side for Ember she had been there for almost two months. Ember became stronger in daemon world with all the training she is doing with Cole.
I love how connected Taren and Ember are in this book even though they don’t realize it at first. This book has a lot of action and a lot of discoveries and I loved every page of this book, I guess you have to read it to see how great this book is and also how great is the end, simply perfect. I’ll certainly read it again someday.
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This book is frenetic!! I’ve read it right after the second book and finished it in a few hours because I couldn’t stop myself each chapter was even more intriguing than the previous one. The fact that this book is divided between Ember and Tare’s pov just make it much better and we start with Taren, about a week after Ember jump through the gate. He’s devastated and keep having dreams where he actually stopped her before she went through the portal just to wake up and realize it’s not true. He blames Kat for stopping him and keep pushing his mother to find a way to contact Ember, but nothing has changed since the day she crossed the gate. Taren has a lot of discussion with his father and he patrols recklessly to release all his anger and frustration while Ember in the other realm is training with the daemons that aren’t evil and just as trapped there as her. The place is horrible and people have to work hard to just survive for the day, and there’s always danger around them, we also learn that while only a week has gone by in Taren’s side for Ember she had been there for almost two months. Ember became stronger in daemon world with all the training she is doing with Cole.
I love how connected Taren and Ember are in this book even though they don’t realize it at first. This book has a lot of action and a lot of discoveries and I loved every page of this book, I guess you have to read it to see how great this book is and also how great is the end, simply perfect. I’ll certainly read it again someday.
May 2, 2015
Great conclusion to the series overall. Up until the last few chapters the pacing was good. The last few chapters were rushed and felt like the author wanted to quickly tie up loose ends and be done. The new characters were well placed, interesting twist with the Dharaks. Learning more about Zoe would have been an added bonus.
September 28, 2014
A great and fast read. Lots of adventure and love the new characters. Not as fabulous as the first two books but if I hadn't read those I would not have had such high expectations and probably would have given it a five star rating. Looking.g forward to what else this writer will come up with.
March 1, 2016
I adored this whole series and loved how fast paced this book was.. I just felt let down by the ending. I felt like I wanted more information, but it all seemed rushed. I still loved every page though.
September 23, 2014
Best book I've read in a long time. Very well written. LOVED the ending. Great trilogy for anyone who hasn't read yet. As much as I loved books 1 and 2, book 3 was by far my favorite!!
October 10, 2014
Awesome book, great way end end series. This is an amazing author, if you have not done so check out her books thrilling.
January 9, 2015
Fantastic
This was a refreshingly new and different tale and carries all of the elements necessary for me to read all three straight through. Well worth your time.
This was a refreshingly new and different tale and carries all of the elements necessary for me to read all three straight through. Well worth your time.
June 23, 2015
Really nice end to the trilogy. wrapped everything up nicely. I really enjoyed these books
May 15, 2016
Wonderful series to immerse yourself in, old & young. No age classification.
June 7, 2016
Read the whole trilogy
Loved all 3 books!!!!!! I wish there were more to read, I loved the characters and the story. Read them all!!!
Loved all 3 books!!!!!! I wish there were more to read, I loved the characters and the story. Read them all!!!
April 23, 2017
Didn't think the finish was a strong but was still a page turner!
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