Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Series 3 of the year complete.

I have a lot of conflicting thoughts about this book and trilogy as a whole. For starters, I'm absolutely obsessed with Laini Taylor's writing. She has a way with words that draws you right in and keeps you hooked. The prose and imagery she weaves with her words is perfection and I cannot wait to read anything and everything else she publishes.

That being said this book completed suffered from trying to do way too much. This book introduced so many new complexities and layers to the world that I think Laini took on too much with this final installment. There were so many instances where this book dragged and seemed to have no true direction. I felt like this book had even more info dump than the first book.

So while I love the world and the characters and was eager to see what would happen to them, this book was fairly unsatisfying for me. I think there was just too much going on and not enough conclusion for me. This book definitely left the door wide open for a sequel or spin-off and I'm not sure how I feel about that with how disappointing this final installment was.

So basically, I love the writing in this book and I love the characters, but the plot was just too much for me. The story seemed to go in too many different directions for my taste. This trilogy as a whole was still really good though, this final book was did not live up to the other two books.

Great. Awesome. The ending was warm, fuzzy and open? Like Strange The Dreamer. So these guys are ramping up to fight the Nithilam, and the crew from Strange The Dreamer is moving through the portals. So the last open portal is from Earth to Eretz and the other side from Eretz was closed off. So, is there going to be a story where everyone meets in Eretz(?) and gathers together to fight off the Nithilam?! That'd be awesome to read.