Storm Breaking

Karal continued to be a sweet, thoughtful, and compassionate character and An'desha continued to experience character growth while they worked together and with friends, both old and new, to find a solution to end the Mage Storms before they grew too powerful to survive. Their chapters were relatively slow and plodding without much action and with a fair bit of reflection but continued to show decent development for both the characters themselves, those they were with, and for the overall plot. We saw a return to a POV in the Empire with Charliss selecting a new successor and we had an interesting POV from him as he worked to deal with the ramifications of the Mage Wars in the Empire. While we also continued to follow Tremaine and Hardorn we switched from his POV to Elspeth's as she and Darkwind were sent as envoys. This was the most annoying aspect of this addition to the trilogy as Tremaine's character arc had not ended and he continued to experience many challenges so his POV would've been much more interesting to follow instead of established character POVs. Overall this was a decent finale to the trilogy and the trilogy itself isn't terribly, but it is definitely not my favorite of Lackey's work.