Where’s the rest?

The series is an enjoyable five books tied together poorly in a sixth book where the only significant plot twist is that there wasn’t a resolution to many of the central storylines. Yes, the battle with Aamon concludes as does the inevitable fight with Lord Zelrod, but so many other plots go untouched.

Spoiler Alert-

Among the missing storylines is any resolution to the story of Zed and Cole. They go about building an army and conquering lands, but never interact with either Lord Zelrod or Lusam, so what was the point of continuing their story throughout the books? They play no role in the outcome of events.

More stories are learned from encounters with the dragons, including deceit and treachery that promises to be avenged. Yet it never was.

Overall, the series was good but book 6 felt forced. I’m disappointed in the conclusion and feel I missed out on some great stories I’ll never hear.

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Disappointing... very disappointing

This has been one of my favorite series until the end of book 6.

The entire book appeared to be leading up to an epic climax of triumph but dropped off into a lack luster, passionless dead end. The story stops abruptly without even trying to tying up loose ends or finishing the stories of Cole, Zed it the evil leader of the dragons.

It’s almost as if the author planned on a 7th book but got bored and gave up.

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Completely Top Notch.

Alex Wyndham does a great job as narrator. Dean Cadman is one of the all time greats as far as a story weaver. Awesome experience as a whole.

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Lusams legacy

This book series is exactly what I look for in these type of books. They just don’t skim the top it goes more in depth on the challenges that Lusam dealt with both physically and emotionally.

Nothing was filtered and feelings were all brought to light on all characters, the book was wonderful and I am really looking forward to what comes next for Lusam and Neela.

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Where's the ending?? I blame the publishers

I'll start with the good. Overall, this last installment was pretty good and I enjoyed it..... until the end. I have loved this entire series and preordered this installment only to be sorely disappointed by the ending. If that's even what you can call it. I'm confused as to why we had to follow Zed and Cole for 5 whole books, only to not have an actual clue as to what becomes of their plans. To make matters worse, their cliff hanger ending, was the actual ending of the book. If it had been closer to the middle, then maybe I could have tried to pretend I forgot about it. I am holding firm to my idea that, the publishers gave the writer a deadline and creatively he wasn't done, yet they published it anyway. I refuse to believe that this was the planned ending.

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Abrupt end

Good story line, but unnecessarily comes to a screeching halt and leaves some unresolved questions.

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Good but not great ending

The ending felt very anti climatic. The dragon story was just abandoned. What about Lusams promise?? Zed and Coles story was pointless and had no impact on the story. You could skip those chapters and it wouldn't effect the story at all. Overall it was a good story but predictable ending

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I have totally enjoyed this series

I hope there is more to come with a part two. I have totally enjoyed this series.

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it's...okay. Sorry for the spelling

I loved the lusam series but I refused to listen to this book because I read it was bad. I finally finished it and as amazing as this last book was it left a lot of questions unanswered and it felt incredibly rushed once lusam got out of the hidden land.

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The final hidden land arc was great but only because a good portion of it was in book 5

The dragon island arc was good but unfinished and never mentioned or talked about again when they left

The final rift arc was very anticlimactic and extremely rushed. Arlos sacrifice was completely out of character, with all the talking and training he beat into lusam about doing things smartly just to kamikaze to which would cause an explosion that would've killed everyone there made his and ryus sacrifice / last words almost selfish.

The wrap up chapters were annoying at best. I never cared for neela, she seemed like a character that just existed for lusam as a plot point to move him forward. The same goes for Kanoss. The mom not wanting to go with her son who she thought was dead for a while and just lost her baby daddy after such a short time before he died doesn't feel right at all. Almost like she just kinda exists in this world and nothing more.

Why were we even following Cole and Zed? They never if only briefly interacted with lusam. They weren't even that big of an opposing force against Zelroth until nearly half way into the book. If what they were doing to that country affected or even distracted Zelroth before Lusam and the gang offed the castles population it would've been okay. 0 contributions to the main story and literally unnecessary to the main plot as a whole.

Amen is just sealed away I guess. Asha is...somewhere or dead and Dryden is also just... somewhere.

Overall it was an okay rushed ending with a lot of unnecessary banter and plot that could've been used to answer or finish some storylines/questions.

Rushed

Feels like it was Rushed. There Are still Alot of question out there and unfished business. If there are more books to come, then I will revise my ratings.