The Forge of Light: The White Mage, Book 5

This 5 book series is a excellent read it will keep you wanting to cheer for the good guys and wanting moor. I was so glad for the final book to be released and totally satisfied with the ending.

Too many passages of fighting. Just way too many. And they seemed to get a little repetitive. After 50 fights against OVERWHELMING odds, you kind of start to lose a little something for the fighters. Especially after they do some of the stupidest stuff ever. Hey, let's leave this OP guy alive - who pops back up to kick your teeth in. Didn't see that coming? I did.

Other than the fact he kept confusing Derrick's voice with Iris, awesome.

I don't know.

Maybe because it would be almost interesting to see if he could write more than three paragraphs without a 20 paragraph BAH fight scene. The ending was pretty optimistic, despite how dark the whole series was. Don't see how it can continue.

I"M DONE. YEAH. So dark! Almost depressing. SPOILERS: You killed Jack? and Breaker? and most terribly of all Hawk - once. But a jerk like Cayden gets two or three? Really? And isn't the myth "from the ashes, the Phoenix will rise"? That you didn't is one of the biggest FAILS of these novels. What's up with that? What's the point of Hawk being a phoenix? What? OOh that still gets my goat. And all those WTH moments. And no last words from Iris? Ugh!

Right at the end, it was a little bit, naive, but the story as a whole was fantastic and paid off all of the threads that had been started in the earlier books

Most avid fantasy readers will recognize the plot and character tropes spread liberally throughout these books. That is not to say they are poorly written; the style and tone are competently executed, and the author did a fair job of keeping me guessing at what might happen next. There was, however, a fairly clear pattern:

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The heroes are thwarted at every turn and everyone they're trying to protect dies until they eventually find the giant reset button that turns off the insurmountable bad guy. Ultimately, the point of the story seemed to be "Just hang in there and eventually it will all be over". Or "Willpower is stronger than luck". I don't know, there were a couple of messages tossed in there somewhere, but none of them quite hit the mark as an overarching theme.

The narrator did a fair job of reading the story and creating unique character voices, but it was slightly confusing having characters who are clearly described as American being portrayed with UK accents.

Derek has to be one of the best readers that I have listened to.

Dragonvein.

This book has great depth and appears to have multiple series broken off from it. I especially liked how it has expanded from epic times with elves, dwarves, and mages to adding modern military and spy issues to the later books.

They kept the narrator the same made this a series one to keep listening to

couldn't stop listening. I'm a huge fan of this series. cant wait to start Luminier books.

Love this book.
Great story.
Great characters.
Awesome closing.
Everything about this book is dope

everyone says this is a harry potter rip but harry potter came from many other stories combined. this is its own story and is very good. the last three books really made the series for me.

buy it you will have made a serious mistake. this book is amazing and a must read.