You can’t help but root for her and her decisions.

The CharactersĮvangeline, a character I once despised, has many redeeming moments, and in fact might be the sole bright spot in this otherwise bleak book. You’ll have to find out how it all plays out because just about every allegiance in this book shakes up and some point or another. Who will win? Norta, led by Maven along with an alliance with the Lakelanders? Piedmont whose allegiances are tenuous at best? Montfort and the Scarlet Guard along with Cal and Volo Samos and the Rift? What’s War Storm about?Īs you might expect, War Storm brings all the wars of the land to an epic conclusion. And he has no presence, no power, and no respect in War Storm. He’s a spoiled brat obsessed with Mare to a fault. The poor boy, once a worthy villain, is a shadow of his former self. In fact by the 85% mark in the book you still feel this way.Īnd don’t get me started on Maven. There is little love, and you have almost no hope for these characters to resolve. But both aspects of these relationships were massive disappointments in War Storm.Ĭal and Mare won’t even talk to each other for the first half of the book, and when they do talk, it’s forced and uncomfortable. This whole story focuses around Mare and Cal’s relationship, and their rivalry with Maven. Well it mostly all comes down to the characters. War Storm was a lackluster final installment in what could have been an amazing series. What is there to say other than the reviews you’ve already read are correct. ‘War Storm was a disappointment’ they said, and I believed them so much that I didn’t end up reading this book for another two years.īut I will not be like my father and leave projects unfinished, and I could not leave this story unresolved. Then War Storm came out and I didn’t get started right away for one reason or another and the reviews started to pour in. But by King’s Cage, I was a little disillusioned with the series. When I first got a hold of Red Queen, I fell in love with the story and the characters. My father was notorious for doing a project half way, stopping when it was “good enough” or cutting corners to save time. He just had the nasty habit of not finishing what he started.įrom the concrete pillars marking the entry to his driveway that still needed another 20 or so stones to the garage that had one wall less than it should have had or the sliding door that he jimmy-rigged because he didn’t plan its construction properly. Or rather it reminds me to be better than my father, not that my father was bad or anything.

War storm book review