In the last book in this series, humanity lost. The elder races of this world, more or less sick of humanity’s bullshit, gave them a very pointed lesson in who is actually in charge in this world. And I will admit, the revenge fantasy was pretty darn sweet. (Who doesn’t enjoy a good revenge story when the world is going to hell in a hand basket?) So I did wonder where things were going to go from here.
This book was an interesting closer to the series, because the Elders more or less asked the same thing. They did figure out that there were some humans worth saving, and decided to do some more observation to make sure they really understood why. So we do end up getting another revenge fantasy on a smaller scale, because it turns out families are messy, and just because you trust someone doesn’t mean that everyone they’re related to is trustworthy as well.
I did enjoy this book, but in kind of a can’t look away from the train wreck way. I really needed to see how Meg and her friends would come out of this story, and I was ultimately pleased with how it ended.
There are three more books written in this extended world, so I’m interested to see where the author went with those.