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397 pages, Hardcover
First published March 7, 2017
Nothing about Meg was simple. She was the pebble dropped in a pond that was the Lakeside Courtyard, and the ripples of her presence had changed so many things, including the terra indigene who had befriended her.
We’ve reached the end of the Lakeside Courtyard story and I’m so sad because I’ve loved all the characters.
*SPOILERS FOR PREVIOUS BOOKS*
In the previous book the Elders, the Others that are never seen and humans had forgotten about, the claws and teeth of Namid, had taken care of the HFL, the humans that were destroying so many terra indigene. And now with few cities left, humans scared and unsure what will happen next, the Elders has decided they need more information on humans, especially on those that pose a threat to other humans and the terra indigene. So when Lieutenant Montgomery’s devious brother comes to visit, intent on causing problems in order to get easy pickings, the Elders are curious to see how a bad human acts and the influence he has on those around him. But Meg and Simon knows that he poses a deadly danger, because Meg has seen in the cards herself standing beside a grave…
Reading this book felt a bit anti-climactic to me, especially after the tense and suspenseful previous book. Jimmy, Monty’s brother, is an awful human and from the get-go it was clear that he was going to cause problems that the Lakeside Courtyard did not need, especially not after what they all had been through. I just wanted them to eat him, and be done with it. But alas, he caused numerous problems, placing a lot of the humans in peril and obviously placing Meg in danger.
As always I loved all the secondary characters, and Skippy especially was so adorable in this book. And I loved Twyla, Monty’s mother, her feistiness and the things she said had me laughing many times. I was so proud of Meg in this book, how hard she fought her addiction to cutting and focusing on learning to use her cards to see predictions. It was also very interesting to see more of the Elders, especially with how fascinating they find Meg, and there were quite a few funny moments because of them:-D
He’d kissed her before—on the forehead once or twice. But when he’d kissed that scar, he’d felt a flutter of change inside him, and in the days that followed he began to understand on some instinctive level that he wasn’t quite the same as the rest of the Lakeside Wolfgard. Not anymore.
For four books now I’ve been patiently waiting for Meg and Simon to finally get together, loving their slow burn romance, and I must say I was disappointed how it was handled in this book. I expected things to start happening with them early on in the book, and hoped to see a lot more to romance, but it just didn’t happen that way. They had started to look at each other differently, felt more than friendship but nothing really happened until the end. This is not a YA book, so I expected more romance for them.
I absolutely adore this series and I’m so very sad to say goodbye to all the Lakeside characters that I’ve come to love and especially saying goodbye to Meg and Simon. But luckily this is not the end of this series and hopefully we will still get to see them in the future books which will focus on other characters. This series is amazing, and a must read for all UF fans.