Yeah.

I want to reference scenes that struck me, but I won't post spoilers. This is a great end to the trilogy, and I miss Jalan and Snorri already. I'm not sure there's more to want from books. ( )

My God, he did it again! Lawrence continues the story of Jal and Snorri by continually building on the bonds of brotherhood between them. Jal is still the coward, cheat, and liar. Snorri is still the big loving bear underneath the Viking skin. The storytelling kept me up way too late in the night (two words: zombie seige!), the humor is top notch, and the ending left me sitting in awe, speechless.

Amazing finale to the Red Queen's War! ( )

Ein uppáhalds andhetjan mín Jalan er mætt ásamt bardagahetjunni Snorra til að takast á við væntanlega enda heimsins. Jalan sem er heigull, fyllibytta, fjárhættuspilari og kvennabósi er kominn til heljar ásamt Snorra sem leitar að fjölskyldu sinni. Þeir verða hins vegar að komast til baka og stöðva Hjól Osheims sem er að rústa gangverki heimsins. Húmor og hraður spennandi söguþráður einnkennir þessa síðustu sögu þríleiksins líkt og hinar fyrri og ég skemmti mér vel við lesturinn. ( )

3.8 stars, he brought it home with panache. Good swords and sorcery with roots in our near future somehow. I'll have to read up on the conspiracy theories about what the large hadron collider could be used for to see what the core idea was. Jalan continued to surprise. I missed his earlier terrible decisions but admired how the author successfully brought him to a certain amount of maturity. I am still sorry about Tuttugu's arc although he makes a nice reappearance here. The Red and Blue adversaries remained inscrutable but I suppose that was their purpose. ( )

What a wonderful series! Jalan's story parallels the one told in The Broken Empire series, but Jalan is such a different character from Jorg with dissimilar motives and behavior. This is more of a buddy tale with Jalan and Snorri, though they do separate for some time at the beginning of The Wheel of Osheim.
It's a suitably rousing finish to the Red Queen's war with the Blue Lady. There's a diverse cast of characters that entertain and terrify. I have a hard time deciding which I like best: Jalan or Jorg. In the end, I like them both a lot for different reasons. Jalan does mature some, though he's mostly dragged into it kicking and screaming. There's a lot going on and it's a terrific world setting that echoes back to our Europe while being very different.
There's so much to like about this series: the writing, the setting, the characters, but I have to say that the ending really made the book for me. It was perfect. ( )