"I was disappointed. There were way too many unanswered questions for this to be the conclusion of a trilogy, and too much was left unfinished. I understand more books will be written, but packaging these as a trilogy seems like pure set up. If I read a trilogy, I want an ending, or at least enough of one to feel like I finished a complete story. The Reckoning ended and all I could think of was how nothing was really explained yet and no one was really out of the woods. But apparently we know enough to move on to someone completely new.
The way the Darkest Powers trilogy ties into the Women of the Otherword is extremely distant, and while you are given tantalizing peeks, the "good guys" from the other series never make an apperance. The four main characters are still left without mentors, Chloe's necklace is not explained, and the last few paragraphs made me almost want to barf - excuse me, but on the run, hunted by all sorts of different groups, and the author leaves you with a romance novel ending? Someone has been reading too much Twilight. Don't get me wrong - I loved Twilight, but for other reasons. I have always really liked Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld because, while they all (well, most) have romance, the endings are more than just the main character swooning. Armstrong certainly did make a stronger, more interesting character than, say, Bella or a romance novel heroine, but to end the way the Trilogy did seemed like a cop out, and not even good set up for the next series.
Give me magic, give me plots, and give me some teenage romance. But make the plots and betrayals and the magic be more important.
Anyway. I will keep reading whatever she writes about the Otherworld. I love her writing, I love her magic, and I love her characters. I just hope the future "trilogies" actually wrap up stories more than this one did."

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"I was disappointed. There were way too many unanswered questions for this to be the conclusion of a trilogy, and too much was left unfinished. I understand more books will be written, but packaging these as a trilogy seems like pure set up. If I read a trilogy, I want an ending, or at least enough of one to feel like I finished a complete story. The Reckoning ended and all I could think of was how nothing was really explained yet and no one was really out of the woods. But apparently we know enough to move on to someone completely new.
The way the Darkest Powers trilogy ties into the Women of the Otherword is extremely distant, and while you are given tantalizing peeks, the "good guys" from the other series never make an apperance. The four main characters are still left without mentors, Chloe's necklace is not explained, and the last few paragraphs made me almost want to barf - excuse me, but on the run, hunted by all sorts of different groups, and the author leaves you with a romance novel ending? Someone has been reading too much Twilight. Don't get me wrong - I loved Twilight, but for other reasons. I have always really liked Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld because, while they all (well, most) have romance, the endings are more than just the main character swooning. Armstrong certainly did make a stronger, more interesting character than, say, Bella or a romance novel heroine, but to end the way the Trilogy did seemed like a cop out, and not even good set up for the next series.
Give me magic, give me plots, and give me some teenage romance. But make the plots and betrayals and the magic be more important.
Anyway. I will keep reading whatever she writes about the Otherworld. I love her writing, I love her magic, and I love her characters. I just hope the future "trilogies" actually wrap up stories more than this one did."

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This is the 3rd and final installment of this series. I really enjoyed the first two books (The Summoning and The Awakening) as I did with this one until I got to the ending. I felt that there were too many things left unresolved. The book held strong like the first two and it never slowed down but the next thing you know it ended and I was left with questions unanswered. It still is a good series and I would still highly recommend it

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There needs to be a fourth book.

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"I was disappointed. There were way too many unanswered questions for this to be the conclusion of a trilogy, and too much was left unfinished. I understand more books will be written, but packaging these as a trilogy seems like pure set up. If I read a trilogy, I want an ending, or at least enough of one to feel like I finished a complete story. The Reckoning ended and all I could think of was how nothing was really explained yet and no one was really out of the woods. But apparently we know enough to move on to someone completely new.
The way the Darkest Powers trilogy ties into the Women of the Otherword is extremely distant, and while you are given tantalizing peeks, the "good guys" from the other series never make an apperance. The four main characters are still left without mentors, Chloe's necklace is not explained, and the last few paragraphs made me almost want to barf - excuse me, but on the run, hunted by all sorts of different groups, and the author leaves you with a romance novel ending? Someone has been reading too much Twilight. Don't get me wrong - I loved Twilight, but for other reasons. I have always really liked Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld because, while they all (well, most) have romance, the endings are more than just the main character swooning. Armstrong certainly did make a stronger, more interesting character than, say, Bella or a romance novel heroine, but to end the way the Trilogy did seemed like a cop out, and not even good set up for the next series.
Give me magic, give me plots, and give me some teenage romance. But make the plots and betrayals and the magic be more important.
Anyway. I will keep reading whatever she writes about the Otherworld. I love her writing, I love her magic, and I love her characters. I just hope the future "trilogies" actually wrap up stories more than this one did."

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I really enjoyed this book. Am now planning on reading more from this author.

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Loved how everything came to be at the end, almost. A few things are left loose that I thought would be cleared up at the end of a trilogy. It seems like there could be another book somewhere down the road. Still a Great read!

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I really enjoyed this YA action packed series even though I am NOT a young adult! The only part I didn't like was the abrupt ending and this is the last book in this series. It's nice when characters go on living in a long series of books.

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I loved this book too bad it ended when it did. I was not happy to have and end to the series. Hopefully we will see these characters in the new series or in her Adult series. I would love it if Chloe and Derek would get their own book in the Adult series that would just make me super happy. Id also like to see more of Tory, and Simon in the future. Anyway this book while not and ending does give you some satisfaction of and ending. It is the last in this series and ends well. If youve read the others youve just got to read the final installment.

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