Awesome reading. Start with The Sword then finish with Finding Destiny in order. You can't go wrong with that. Morg is awesome and patient. He didn't have to wait, but it made it better for him to wait. ( )

I give the series as a whole 3 stars. I really liked the story line and premise, but I did not like the romances. I often found myself skimming the romance parts to find out what was going to happen next with the story. That is out of the ordinary for me. ( )

We knew from book one that Morgenen and Hope were destined for each other, but we didn't know that Hope was the previous Duchess of Nightfall. We also get the Convocation of the Gods and a nice wrap up of the series.

Jean did mention that she has stories for other parts of the world she has created and there's Shifting Plains as a first foray into that. ( )

80 pages on it's still really really boring. No spark between the couple, lots of talk, talk, talk. I can't waste more of my time on this book, peeps and will be donating it to my local library. DNF for me.

Hmmm. Not sure about this one. As a romance, it's fine - well, maybe a little too easy for them, but then they've been courting (mostly off-screen) for about a year already. But Hope's surprise introduces a whole sequence of completely new, unrelated to the previous books' stories events, to the point where this book feels a bit disconnected and random. One major reason for the surprise is to give them some distance and make them court one another rather than just automatically fall together...but there are so many things going on that their love-play gets a bit buried. The scene where Rora gets her Fountain extracted is beautifully done, but Morg and Hope...well, actually, they do play an important role in it. But their roles were very little foreshadowed and are lightly explained, so it doesn't connect up very well. Hope's insistence on chocolate as the cure for all ills is amusing, but again - it comes out of left field. The kidnapping is nicely done and logical within its framework (which is born entirely of the surprise Hope brought), but in the time when the focus should be on the Convocation and the fulfilling of Nightfall's incipient independence, there's this major side-story dragging off in another direction. And then the Convocation itself has this major event that comes out of nowhere - looking back afterward, I can see a few things that refer to it, but without the knowledge of the event they didn't mean anything. Decent story, excellent characters as always, and while I'm reading I enjoy it more or less - but looking at the book as a whole, it's not quite as satisfying as the previous ones. Too bad this one is the culmination of the series.
Rereading because I read The Grove, which takes place partly during the Convocation - very interesting seeing the two POVs. Reading this on its own, not as part of the series, it's pretty good - so that just means that it's a good book but the rest of the series is great. ( )