3⭐️ It's been a while since I started this series, and I'm somewhat back. We have one more book to collect the last gem and then a book about going back to the palace. Along the way, we meet more dangers and characters we've met from the rithmere games. Aside from the obvious monster itself (Glus the thing on the cover), a new monster encounter called ols. It can take the form of a person, but there are flaws in them, like can't go more than 3 days to shift back, and it's behaviour is accurate to the real person.

I don't understand how in the shifting sand Doom was begging them to join the resistance and stay at the stronghold but then when they did join their stronghold two books later, he throws them in a "test" (isolation for 3 days) to see if they're monster because of the ols and when they DID past the test he wasn't planning on letting them out. What was the point in forcing to join??? I get that they're being cautious, but you knew them and behaviour BEFOREHAND and yet????

Anyways I enjoyed the rest of the journey, I think in the next book, Tora will get explained more, and a certain someone (you know who you are) will reveal his true self. I don't have much else to say. Every chapter is exactly how the show went, and we're so close to getting the last gem.