The elders are missing. A strange power hovers. The resistance continues.
After a great battle with the Desert King, Isika has returned to the Royal City of Maween to find that the elders have vanished without a trace. Ben is the only one with any sense of them at all. He embarks with the seekers on a quest to find the elders, but soon a foreign malevolent power makes itself known.
Six elders wake up in six unfamiliar places, flung out of their lives by a mysterious force. Disoriented and afraid, they must discover what has happened to them and survive in their new surroundings. Estranged from the source of power in Maween, will they have the strength to keep themselves safe and find their ways home? Or, like the queen before them, will they be lost forever?
Rachel Devenish Ford is the wife of one Superstar Husband and the mother of five incredible children. Originally from British Columbia, Canada, she spent six years working with street youth in California before moving to India to help start a meditation center in the Christian tradition. She can be found eating street food or smelling flowers in many cities in Asia. She currently lives in Northern Thailand, inhaling books, morning air, and seasonal fruit.
We have reached the end of the long journey. This story focuses less on Isika and more on everyone else, letting those that were mostly background or just mentioned in passing get a moment in the spotlight to wrap up everything in the end. Of course, as you can see in other reviews, many are complaining about the story being rushed, while I don't agree it was rushed so much, I can see why they would have liked to get more time with these characters that we felt like we were just meeting for the first time, even though some of them were in all 6 books. But, that probably would have ended in this final book getting broken up into multiple more volumes just to fit it all, and while a reader may see this as a great idea, a writer actually needs to do all that... and we want to do other stuff too. Also, as a reader, I'm still waiting on certain other authors to finish their next book they were supposed to come out with a couple years ago, so let's just be happy for the clean a fulfilling wrap-up we get here that we don't have to keep waiting on.
I have truly enjoyed this series since I first got World Whisperer for free a few years ago. I was so excited they were releasing book 6. and while it was on par to be as good as the other books, it felt incredibly rushed compared to previous stories in the series. I think had Ms. Ford put a bit more effort into this last book instead of rushing to tie up loose ends, it would’ve been amazing and the fans who enjoy the books as much as I, would’ve been content to devour the longer story. Still great, but felt very anti climatic at the end.
This is an incredible series brought to a fulfilling conclusion, but I hope we will get to go back to Maween sometime soon… it is a place that is good for my soul.