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To start the 7th, final, novel of a series that has brought stability to a very difficult time in my life is both thrilling and edged with sadness. Hadrian has changed with each passing novel and I with him. Bittersweet is the only word I can use to describe my assessment of this beginning of the end to one of my favorite epics.

This is a very complex, in-depth, epic fantasy series in which the author, West, trusts her readers' intelligence & doesn't hold the reader's hand while telling The Sun Sword saga. Like Malazan, the reader is thrown into this world without a life jacket & expected to swim or drown in the ambiguous subtleties conjured by the cultures West builds within her world. I find myself enjoying this novel despite these facts.