I really like the world, and the setting. The pacing was very fast, with lots of things going on. The characters were rushing here, rushing there. There was a whole lot of running around trying to find people, even with the ability for telepathy and cell phones. There were characters which were introduced, an intrigue was created, and then forgotten about, or blatantly left unexplored. So much was going on all at once that it felt like most of them weren't explored fully.

I liked it, and read it in two days, but it needs some serious proofreading. This book seemed rushed, or that it needed another final polish before being published. It's an established world, but there are so many elements to it, that now it seems really thrown together, like a salad that's all toppings. This story had a lot going on in terms of the plot, there were a few side stories all woven together, but it was messy.

There were many missing words, many extra words, the wrong name was used more than once, the main character's age was 17, then 16 shortly after, she had told her father something, then thought about being glad he didn't know in the next scene. These mishaps were all over the place. Every few pages had something off with it, an extra 'had', a missing 'the', two 'the's, the wrong name, different formatting on how a word was Capitalized. Little things, fixable things, but there were a lot of them. ( )

This book's a mess. And that's a real shame, because the basic story is decent enough and the first two trilogies of "The Faire Folk Saga" were quite good — I see that my LT ratings of the first six books overall average out to 3.83***, which is quite good.

This latest volume, unfortunately, suffers from dismal editing. Every few pages shows at least one obvious proofreading failure, and often more, from omitted words to confusing omission of opening or closing quotation marks to misspellings (such as the confusion of the adverb too with the preposition to, along with one of my pet peeves, the confusion of the words libel and liable). It's as if the authors performed a hasty spell-check in their word processing software but never bothered to look for the glitches that computerized spell-checking cannot catch.

And then, there are the actual plot inconsistencies, by way of example, Keelie's telling her father (pages 190-91 of the print edition) that her tablet computer with the Elven Compendium has been stolen, but a later moment (page 204) when Keelie thinks to herself that she has to find the tablet before her father learns that it is missing!

I have no idea what happened to cause this marked degeneration in quality in this seventh volume of "The Faire Folk Saga," but I do see that there has been a change of publishers. I have no way of knowing the reason for the change – whether the decision was the authors' or the prior publisher's or mutual – but the current volume suffers woefully from poor editing and proofreading; and the appearance of the printed text, including the awkward line spacing, gives the impression of a Microsoft Word document that was hastily converted to print, possibly even self-published (though I do not know enough about the book's new publisher to determine whether this is a self-publishing firm or whether it is simply a firm that employs incompetent editors and proofreaders).

I'll probably read the next installment, but only because I've come this far in the series. If the authors fail to improve on the editing and proofreading in the next volume, though, they deserve to lose their so-far loyal readership. ( )