Review: Casket of Souls

Casket of Souls by Lynn Flewelling
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is book six in the series and the next one is the last. I would probably read the Nightrunner forever, given the chance, but no such luck. So I'm very upset closing this book and starting Shards of Time, but I still can't wait even a minute before starting it.

Seregil and Alec are done with their not-so-perfectly-written adventures in Plenimar and settled in Rhíminee again. Which means the Rhíminee Cat and political plots return in full force. The whole book is a cobweb of machinations of two rival cabal that want different people on the throne, and neither one is acceptable from the Watchers' point of view. All this makes a lot of work for Seregil and Alec, with a lot of burgling, fighting, and trying to piece together what little information they have. Unfortunately, all this doesn't get them anywhere, because a third force wipes out both cabals, so the result looks not entirely satisfactory. Till almost the end I hoped that Seregil would piece together the puzzle and solve it himself, but (and it's the only big disappointment from the book) the author gave him a too-straight-forward a hint, which was a bit more luck than you would expect even with generally lucky Seregil. Only after that prompting bone it all clicked into places and rushed to the end.

And I too rushed to the end, reading without a pause the last third of the book. And now I already started the next one, which is even more exciting, except that it's the last one.

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