I'm not sure exactly how to rate this book. It was a very tough read for me and took me forever to get through. Part of it is my fault because I forgot everything that happened in the previous two books and didn't feel like rereading them. So, I was super confused for most of the book, I didn't remember any of the characters so I missed a lot of the intricacies in the character relationships.

Story wise, this book just did not grab my attention. It felt like it took awhile to get into the action and then the "action" was just them questing to the different isles. This was just boring for me, and I had trouble remembering the isle names and identities. Then there was the Theophanie plot line. We're introduced to her in the beginning of the book, then the whole middle their on their quest, and then finally at the end Theophanie shows up again. It just felt disjointed and like an entire book of filler.

I was also annoyed by Violet and Xaden. They had the same argument over and over (admittedly it was realistic they would have this argument so often) and it just got really old because there wasn't any headway being made or new points being made, so it was just very repetitive.

I did like finding out more about Andarna, even though I didnt care for the questing to the isles plot. I also liked learning about the other characters more like Ridoc, Brennan, Mira, Sawyer.

Overall, kind of a miss but I wonder if I would have liked it more if I reread the other two books.