The Battle of Evernight

After being smitten by the first two Bitterbynde books, I couldn't bear not reading the third - The Battle of Evernight - and once you start reading it you can't bear to stop. You get pulled along in the amazing adventure with Tahquil - Ashalind and her cohorts, and there are moments in the book where your heart litereally stops with glee. Seriously, at the end of this book I went running round my house screaming at the twists and turns Ms Dart Thornton puts in! So very exciting and fast paced! But enough of my babbling! Please, take my word and read this book, or start reading the series. They're incredibly worth your time!

The book continues on from the somewhat suspenseful ending of the previous book. Finally Ashalind's past has been revealed to us...and the danger she has been courting becomes a reality. The book is a superb ending to an unusual and beautfull written trilogy comprising of 'The Ill-made Mute' which took character communication to a new level and the wonderful 'Lady of the Sorrows' with it's descriptions of court life and dangerous treks to find answers among the blackest forests of the land. I found this book a gripping read, satisfying, romantic, suspenseful, and with prose like no other writer. Alot of people have been somewhat uncertain of the ending, I would advise you to check out Dart-Thornton's website for reassurance, where she has placed an author's note that satisfies all questions.

I found the ending of the this Trilogy to be beautiful, and in total a wonderful Fairy Tale. I believe that people should remember that Ms. Dart-Thorton is weaving a very long Fairy Tale. And as for the ending, it is bitter sweet, but again, in my oppinion Beautiful. I've read many fairy tales and in all that I have read none turned out to be a happy ending like in Disney Movies. Also, I don't find the ending to be sudden or unexpected. Through out the Series there is a lot of Foreshadowing. And I also argue that the ending is in it's way happy. If anyone has read the Epilogue, I believe that Thorn and Ashalind live happily ever after. Maybe not in a Mortal sense, but I know that they are happy. All in all, if you like Fairy Tales, and I don't mean Disney Fairy Tales, but the Tales that might be found in the Blue Book of Fairy Tales, or other such books, then I think you will like this final book in the Bitterbynde Series.

After reading the reviews of previous readers I felt inclined to add my opinion. I thought that this book was a strong follow-up to the first two in the series. Some of the readers obviously felt that the ending to The Battle of Evernight was weak and a poor substitute for the ending that Mrs. Dart-Thornton could have certainly given us. I both agree and disagree. The Epilogue clearly reveals the fate of the two main characters, and yet I thought that things might have been better concluded if their happiness was set in stone. There were many small plots that eventually, after a bit of winding, led to nothing, but overall I loved the book and the plot of it. Its meaning was inspiring and it was beautifully written.

Don't have to read brackeded area[Dart-Thornton has a gift for story telling. It is a cobination of poetry, folktales, and original plot.As you have probably read in the offical reviews. It says the climax of the book comes too far from the end but is only true if you think an enemies changed form is defeat and that it is the only main conflict of the story. Sure he has no great power anymore but the fact that Ashlind has not married her love yet is what keeps the story going. So if you want to read this, be patient and remember that two if the main things a good writer has to accompish by the end of the is unexpected turns and to bring out emotions(good or bad).]Now the whole plot line of the this story is to find the Gate of Oblivion's Kiss that bounded Ashlind by the bitterbynde. With her two compains Via and Caitri travel to Arcour to search for the Gate. Traveling, she goes through two forests of wights and a village in the middle of nowhere. Then travels through Lallillir and through all this, aquires the compainonship of a urisk, a swanmaiden, a waterhorse, and a half-sealfolk half-man. Via and Caitri are soon captured by the Hunt and brought to Darke, Land of Evernight. And thus Ashlind follows to save her friends...So much have I skipped and so little you know where riddles are common and immtoral love is noneor so says everyone