A review by tacochelle
The Golden Tower by Holly Black

3.0

This book, and I guess the series overall, is. 2.5 rounded up. I think there are some really good ideas bogged down by a weird idea of middle-grade humor. For all the talk about what makes us good versus evil, and what is life, what do we lose at death, the stakes never felt serious for what they were dealing with. Overall, I think each book in the series could have been a bit longer to expand on these ideas. And the ending itself, the last paragraph, felt really ominous for the end of the series. It just didn't sit right with me.