I really loved this series. I really liked the way the story was told. I loved all the characters. And I loved that the setting was familiar - a parallel time. I really did love Wynter's character in the end. I loved Christopher. Alberon grew on me. As did all the other characters. I suggest for superbly concocted fantasy, this is the series to read. There is hardly anything like the political tension in this series found in any other YA novel. Bloody brilliant it is! How sad. My favourite part of this whole series is the epilogue. Of the trilogy, this one was probably my favourite. I dunno, maybe because there was actually some action going on, rather than description / running off with Merron people / nothing. The book was probably only two stars, but compared to the others it's a three. I only realised in this one that the Loups-Garous are actually... wolves. Like, they were always called 'Wolves' but I thought it was just a metaphor sorta thing. I wasn't aware that they could actually turn into wolves. I think it would improved Numero 2 a lot if I'd actually known that. Grr. Finally, we meet Alberon. Finally, we actually figure out what the problem is. We meet the... villain thing. The source of the whole plot line. How nice. In the third and final book. I'm still a little confused with all the countries and the politics behind it, but oh well. I could manage... Only just, though. I felt the resolution was a little... I felt like the author wrote up this climax, but didn't clean it up. She didn't take away the bodies, explain what was going. We just had a cliche 'five years later' in which what ACTUALLY happened was told in the eyes of a five year old who isn't even certain what happened. He wasn't, like, born! We just got glimpses of the real 'final battle'. Ah, well. At least I can put this series behind me. SPOILER: I KNEW WHAT THE BLOODY MACHINE WAS. The only reason why I kept reading it was because I wanted to know what The Machines were. I guessed they were guns, but I thought that'd be too predictable. Guess I was wrong.
