I found Shapers of Darkness to be the weakest of the five but I can't quite place why. The pace moves along rather quickly but I found myself thoroughly uninterested in certain plot lines (most predominantly the goings on in Galdasten)--so much that I took a nearly three month hiatus from reading...
Bonds of Vengeance seems to serve as the bridge between the first two books in the series in the last two. Having just finished this book I can't say for sure, but I can say that this book tidies up a lot of plotlines from the first two while still leaving a couple major ones to be addressed, and...