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I share the same sentiment with most readers. Exited to finish what has been a very exciting trilogy the third book simply lost me too many times in the beginning. However after getting over the whole Giva arc in the first third of the book the book shifts back to what we love. Crazy plans to overcome a system. And here it is as exciting as ever!

And the ending alone is so powerful. So sad but so beautiful. And once you understand how and why the author wrote it. It becomes all clear. Love.

Thrilling. Conniving. Beautiful.

It's a novella, and can be read across one or two attentive sessions. I wished there was a full story around the concept of the soulstamps. So fascinating!

This book is everything the other book was not. Will is still stupid but he has guts, something King Lognion also acknowledges and is conflicted about throughout the book. Will is thrown into Hogwards, I mean Worthhaven, where he learns that all the wizards are essentially handicapped because they are learning magic wrong. So he is basically the only competent wizard in there, and that as a War veteran. From there all the things that have been setup in Book 1 derailed into a complete Train Wreck: Between murders, demons, conspiracies, enabled by the sarcastic lingering knowledge of his Grandpa as a speaking Ring, the Fae and the God Damned cat, Will causes one small crisis after another in a hilarious journey to conquer Seline's heart.

This book does many unexpected things for a book of this genre. And I loved every second of it.

Piranesi is a hard read at first. Almost like a puzzle, a system you are thrown in to figure out told from the first person perspective of the name's sake Protagonist in form of Journal Entries. You experience a world contained in a House of many halls, filled with various statues depicting characters, animals and many other situations. The house is filled with regular tides and birds. Piranesi is an adventurer and a researcher of this place. You accept the house as a cohesive sensible place. And Piranesi Is a proud and thankful inhabitant of that world.

Later the book reveals more and more of other characters and how those characters change Piranesi's perception of the world. It becomes an intriguing somewhat heartbreaking chase for the truth. But it also becomes more engaging and a real page turner.

The book is a delicate work about Identity, Memories and Perception and how they shape you relationship to the world and your inner happiness of belonging to it.

"The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite."

I read the Kindle version of the book. And had no problems with it.

From the pacing not as satisfying as the second one, but it sets up a lot of great material for the fourth entry I can't wait to read. The main Plot of this one introduced a few tropes I've seen before. The ending was well executed.