This book was supposed to be the climax, and conclusion to the trilogy. I finished it feeling severely disappointed. Nothing happens. There were No epic battles, and no real focused goal or direction. Reading this book was the fantasy equivalent of watching the evening news each night. Same stuff, different day. Overall this series is an embarrassment to the Obsidian Trilogy. It seemed the authors wrote it because they had to, rather than because they wanted to. I didn't even bother reviewing the first two installments of the Phoenix trilogy. If it wasn't for this trilogy being in the same universe as Obsidian trilogy, I would've stopped reading it after first book. But now, I'm kind of glad - the third book is quite good.Harrier and Tiercel are trying to lead and keep alive thousands of tribesmen across the desert, while Ahairan is throwing everything at them, killing them little by little. While they're at it, they're trying to think of some way to kill or lock demon, or even just hold her attention long enough to someone outside the desert notice that the Forth endarkened war has already begun.Main characters - Harrier and Tiercel - finally are becoming something more then very annoying kids running around doing nothing in annoying ways and complaining all the way, and are more likable - Harrier starts to act like Knight-Mage, leading the army (well, more like exodus) and comes to terms with wildmagic and paying the mageprice (though, he complains all the way in quite an amusing fashion), and Tiercel acquires a bit more sense of realism and eases on the horrified monologues about how Harrier has changed (like stopped being pampered city-dweller who could afford to go easy on people that try to sabotage him at every step, like it's a bad thing).Story slowly unfolds, which I personally like very much, because it gives me the chance to get to know people in the book through more then battles and heroics, and I really liked following ragged bunch of tribesmen on their long journey as they learned to defend themselves against Ahairan, find water and food in newly sterile desert, use magic to its maximum to survive, and I liked following Harrier as he learned to care for them and learned to bear the burden of responsibility of being their commander. All in all, this is nice book, and I'd recommend it if you have time to slog through the first two, which are of much less quality.
Do You like book Phoenix Transformed (2000)?
AudiobookI like the book, but this one is a lot long winded.
—cathysing
Draaaagons fighting evil. That's all I remember. DRAGONS.
—jake
a cross between the last Harry Potter book and Exodus
—leo007
