Seize Your Copy The Lost Ones (The Veil, #3) Devised By Christopher Golden Distributed In Booklet

installment in Golden's trilogy, I loved loved loved this trilogy, For you fanasy lovers out there this is a must read, interesting story, but slow reading, This was a good ending to the trilogy, Most of the book is about the war between the Borderkind/Legends and the Atlanteans, The gathering of forces and actual battle, Oliver and Collette also come into their magical abilities and see themselves for the legendborn that they are, All in all a satisfying end, A fantastic and appropriate conclusion to a riveting series, Absorbing. Resolute. Heartbreaking. Hopeful. Just in many ways, unjust in others,

The conclusion is probably far more realistic than some would like funny to say about a fantasy read, It's not a happygolucky, walk into the sunset ending,

Oliver, along with the Borderkind, Lost Ones and legends, is off to war, determined to bring peace back to the Two Kingdoms.
And true to the idea of war, blood is shed, courage is tested, and friendships and loyalties are proven, As others have said, favorite companions are lost in this installment, and while sad and senseless, I think it only fair, In war, unfortunately, not everyone lives to see the end, to experience the peace they strove to bring about, In war, many things are sad and senseless,

I suppose I had one dissappointment, In the epilogue, I would have loved a more expansive description of the world in the aftermath of war, I wanted to know what happened to ALL of our treasured characters and how they were coping with the changes wrought, And what happened to Cronos!

Having completed this series, I am going to seek out Golden's other novels, If all of his writings are as interesting, vivid, and engrossing as this series, then I am certainly in for a treat, Awesome. This series continued to build itself up and finally in the final book we see everything come to a bloody resolution, Golden manages a sense of closure that plays at your heartstrings and a desire to find out what eventually becomes of the characters, humans, legends and gods that he creates.


The grand conclusion left a little to be desired and some of the creatures in this final installment were a little laughable flying sharks and octopi, but there was a sense of "epicness" that definitely reminded me of Tolkein.


Poor Kitsune! And how cool is the new Sandman I can readily imagine myself reading this again on a cold winter day with rain pattering at the window.
Meh. Couldn't finish. This review is for all three in the trilogy The Veil,, and, Very interesting premise characters are diverse, rounded, interesting and we don't always know their motivations, The Sandman as a villain creeped me out amp I'm not usually creeped out by things in books, You do have to read these as a trilogy, though,

The first book for me was like a really long setup which is ok, just not what I expected, . . but it gave us a good foundation of what the other side of the veil is likewhich is really interesting, actually, and I liked that it was very much charactercentered.
The parts ofwith Det, Halliwell seemed to move along at a good pace while the parts about Oliver on the other side of the veil sometimes seemed to drag a little by comparison though I wondered if that was purposeful considering the two sides of the veil and Oliver's state of mind.
And I don't know why I was so tickled by the idea of The Atlantic River, but I was,

I really enjoyedit's a little darker than, I think, but also purposeful in tone again, maybe reflecting where Oliver's state of mind Lots of interesting things happened i.
e. , Sandman vs Dustman the reader and Oliver finally get some answers more character development and some new characters are introduced but always purposeful, I think readingthenimmediately after is a must b/c it is more satisfying in that you get some answers to all the questions posed in.


is takes us up to The Final Epic Climactic Battle which, again, is ok but I think that feeling is more about me than the book since I've read quite a few of those lately and I may be Final Epic Climactic Battled out.
Actually, I don't want to be unfair it's a wellwritten and satisfactory Final Epic Climactic Battle even if one of my favorite characters dies.
However, in, things really do come together even things fromcome full circle, This is the first series that I have in my spreadsheet on ongoing series that I'm actively readingat last count which has been concluded by the author ie, the publisher didn't decide to just stop.


I liked the book, and liked the series, Good fluff reading on what it would mean if fairy tales and myths were real, and were just separated from "the real world" by a magic wall.
I was nervous about this book, As much as I adored sitelinkThe Myth Hunters, and was a shade let down by sitelinkThe Borderkind but The Lost Ones pulled through very well.
All loose ends are tied up, and there are some twists that come about that you would only forsee if you were cheating,

In this volume, we learn a lot more about

several of the characters, and about their intentions, There are epic battles and fantastic creatures which of course there have been throughout the series but even more are introduced,

The story that Christopher Golden tells in this book is very engaging, and enjoyable, Good things happen to some, horribly bad things happen to others and everyone finally understands Oliver and Collette's place is in the worlds, and why the hit has been called on the Borderkind.
This one gave the series a nice sense of closure, I really wanted to like this book, I was totally in love with thest two, This one, however, left me dry and bitter, I could NOT get into it, The style was so different than thest two, This one was way overboard on the details on the battle itself and very little on the characters which I had grown to love.
And I wanted more, so much more, on THEM, I know that this novel's focus was on the battle, and the others were on leading up to it but still Golden ya let me down.
You can, however, make it up by giving us another book and let us know now that the war is over, . . what next. I liked it! I really enjoyed this saga, even though there was so much sorrow and loss, I think it ended the only way it could, honestly, though I didn't guess it, At first I felt like he was just throwing in every mythological creature ever thought up for filler, But now I'm glad they were all there, for they all had a part to play in the final, epic battle, Not much else to say really, I can't give it a fullstars, but a,is about right.

Again, damn you Goodreads for not allowing half star ratings, The ending to the fantasy trilogy, Well written, worth reading. While I was not as thrilled with the last book as I was the first two books, I still like the series, The primary problem I had was that the author kept explaining things, recapping situations and people I read the other two books, so I already knew these things.
It felt more like filler than writing, I gave up on this because so much time had passed between this and reading the first two, I couldn't get back into the story.
A good afternoon read but not to set the world afire,

I'm somewhat ambivalent about this series, I began them because they were recommended as Urban Fantasy, but they aren't, . they're portal fantasy set in the current era, I haven't read straight fantasy for some while and I think this series reminded me why I had moved on,

The books are engaging enough but there is a cold distance about all the characters, I didn't really feel very close to any of them except a couple of the extras, certainly not the main "hero" who was always elusive and ultimately not very likable.


The world building was strong but it all seemed a bit too "Young Adult" despite the gratuitous swearing that increases across the series.


In the end I was left with the awareness that I was calculating throughout the series when each plot point was set to occur when each tumbler in the fantasy formula ticked over.
I was not caught up in the story or the characterisations because the formula was so heavily wrought,

If you like to lose yourself in a rich fantasy story this probably isn't the one,
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