Andrew’s Wizardly Reads 13.4K subscribers · May 1, 2026

I Read 10 Books and Found a NEW ALL-TIME FAVORITE! 🏆

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Disliked

This one was kind of disappointing to the point where like after Crucible and now The Last Odyssey, even though if you like go into Goodreads and Amazon, those two rank very high in the like ratings of like the books in the series, like I'm just like, "These are some of the worst for me personally." They're fun, but if you look at them critically at all, they fall apart.

Disliked

There were some things that just I couldn't rationalize what was going on there. It felt very odd and I just wasn't in the mood to read it. I got I tried three or four times and I got about I'm going to say 23% of the way through before I was just like, "This is incredibly odd."

Mixed

It just it felt like it could have been trimmed down to me. It just felt a bit bloated. It felt like we were enough resolved in this that we didn't have to fully light everything on fire just to handle it so that we could then finish the book.

Loved

So, I love this book and I thought it was really well done and handled very, very carefully, but at the same time, I would perfectly understand why people wouldn't want to read this book. But man, it was just so incredibly good.

Mixed

And that those elements didn't particularly work for me all that well. But, at the same time, we get this cool dynamic shift in the fairy realm and I was just like, "That was so incredibly cool." So, it was a good story.