Aw man, I'm so sad. It's like my childhood self has just waved good-bye to me after for visiting for awhile. Though luckily, there are three more Deltora companion books to read after (one albeit a dragon drawing book but I will gladly take advantage of that one's excellent dragon art techniques).

Anyway, onto actually talking about Deltora's final installment. While I don't rate this one as highly in the quartet (The Masked Ones and Isle of the Dead earn those placements), I think Rodda is able to remarkably tie all the strings together and end the damn thing with a fantastic dragon night battle, what more could you want? And I think it's a cute detail that this inspires one of the biggest festivals of the year, Dragon Night. What I would give to read a short story based around a Dragon Night celebration, I don't know. Alas, while the completion of the series is satisfying, the entirety of this final book itself is just too depressing with the Toran Plague nonesense and all the back and forth with the people of Del. Also on another ending note, don't you think it's funny that Lief and Jasmine name their kids after their dead parents (Anna, Jarred, & Endon) much in the same fashion as the Harry Potter ending? Which, I might add, ended only three years later. So I'm blaming Deltora for that silly & mind-boggling trope.

Side note, can we please get some short stories involving Doom's travel adventures? He sets out on all this big trips at the conclusion of the series and Rodda hints he's trying to uncover truths on bringing back the dragon population.

Turns out, for eager Deltora beavers, the companion books are not the only linked stories. Rodda announced in 2015 through the new Star of Deltora series that her other works, Rowan of Rin, the Three Doors, and the new Star of Deltora books all take place in the same world as Lief, Jasmine, and Barda's! So it turns out, my childhood nostalgia trip is not quite over ;)