The series comes to an end with a very satisfying conclusion and as I am a sucker for good endings, this was my favorite of the series. 

This book had me surprised at how quickly we actually entered the endgame and as a result previous issues I sometimes had with the pacing disappeared. 

The book gave us lots of cool callbacks to past events, many heartfelt moments, beloved returning characters and a really cool and creative ending sequence that had me surprised and kind of contained its own little Mystery to unravel. Really fun stuff!

The reveal regarding the big villain of the series felt pretty underwhelming (mainly because of a somewhat underdeveloping of said character) but it at least gave us an excuse for most of the major characters to come together. Also I thought that the final battle dragged a little too much. We certainly had a lot of cool moments there but it kind of boiled down to too much action all the time and I got a little bored there occasionally.  

Overall the series was a blast. It might not reach the highest of highs but it was consistently very entertaining throughout the whole series and you really grow attached to these characters. 

I will totally keep recommending these to anyone who even remotely thinks of experiencing a Progression Fantasy story. Also people with a knack for wizard school stories should probably take a look at this. And if you are a fan of audiobooks on top of this, what are you waiting for?

Maybe this will convince you:

I have been praising the audiobook narration in each of these reviews and this time I wanna point to another fact the narrator mentioned in the afterword of the series that kind of blew me away. I did not know this beforehand but it certainly shows: Basically the series being made into an audiobook was a huge passion project for Jack Voraces! 

He contacted the author directly and asked if he would be fine with Jack starting to narrate the books and from that they basically made their own little web series / podcast and recorded the first version of the narration. Much later when they were already nearly done with the whole series they made a deal with Podium audio for an official recording and release: Simply incredible!