pjonsson's review against another edition
5.0
This is the third book in the Grand Central Arena series and the third one to score 5 out of 5 stars from me. This series is just great!
I think my only disappointment with this book is that it was kind of portrayed as the grand climax so I was expecting a bit of a conclusion. Well, there is certainly quite a bit of a climax at the end but equally certainly not much of a conclusion. The story is left very open ended.
Unfortunately since this book came out in 2017 and although the author spent between three and four years between each of these books we are now in 2021 I fear that there will be no further books.
Anyway, this is still a great book. The adventure continues and there seems to be no end to the discoveries and mysteries that are thrown into our heroes path.
Ariane and company finally gets to take that trip to the Deeps of the Arena and their awaits, you guessed it, new discoveries and mysteries. I really like how the author manages to create new twists and “stuff” in this universe without it feeling contrived and forced. These books are just such a great reading.
Of course first she has to deal with this challenge mentioned in the book blurb. I really liked how one of the factions thought they were clever when issuing that challenge and then their “cleverness” was just turned around against them.
While all this is taking place the Molothos are stirring up problems again. Their shenanigans lead up to a major showdown towards the end. The kind that involves large number or space ships, or maybe they should be called arena ships, throwing things that go boom at each other. We’re talking a major battle here.
The two main story arcs, Ariane’s adventures and the Molothos fight against the Human faction all blends together at the end in what indeed can be said to be a climactic ending of the book. It was all so cool.
This series is one of the best I’ve read in a long time. I really like the heroics, the characters, the fantastic universe and so on and so forth. I really hope there will be a fourth book but given the time that has passed since this one was publish I’m not holding my breath…which sucks.
I think my only disappointment with this book is that it was kind of portrayed as the grand climax so I was expecting a bit of a conclusion. Well, there is certainly quite a bit of a climax at the end but equally certainly not much of a conclusion. The story is left very open ended.
Unfortunately since this book came out in 2017 and although the author spent between three and four years between each of these books we are now in 2021 I fear that there will be no further books.
Anyway, this is still a great book. The adventure continues and there seems to be no end to the discoveries and mysteries that are thrown into our heroes path.
Ariane and company finally gets to take that trip to the Deeps of the Arena and their awaits, you guessed it, new discoveries and mysteries. I really like how the author manages to create new twists and “stuff” in this universe without it feeling contrived and forced. These books are just such a great reading.
Of course first she has to deal with this challenge mentioned in the book blurb. I really liked how one of the factions thought they were clever when issuing that challenge and then their “cleverness” was just turned around against them.
While all this is taking place the Molothos are stirring up problems again. Their shenanigans lead up to a major showdown towards the end. The kind that involves large number or space ships, or maybe they should be called arena ships, throwing things that go boom at each other. We’re talking a major battle here.
The two main story arcs, Ariane’s adventures and the Molothos fight against the Human faction all blends together at the end in what indeed can be said to be a climactic ending of the book. It was all so cool.
This series is one of the best I’ve read in a long time. I really like the heroics, the characters, the fantastic universe and so on and so forth. I really hope there will be a fourth book but given the time that has passed since this one was publish I’m not holding my breath…which sucks.
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