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A depressing and not entirely satisfying end to the trilogy. The bad guys lose largely because they are bad at everything, including sanity. (One character acting as though a dead one were alive is one of my favorite tropes, but it was poorly done here.) The textual queerness goes nowhere, though Sarana is the best character. Another character is queer coded and, naturally, dies a martyr. Early YA, but I wouldn‘t want a teenager reading this.

Ahhhh, there have been the tiniest of queer hints in this series, but I never expected it to get this far into the text 😍

This book was published in 1998! The first was 1988 so I guess I‘m not surprised that textual queerness has advanced.