FOR is a volume slightly below the others. After three excellent novels that had left me a very good memory (ie the 6th, 7th and 8th pounds), ninth opus turns out to be a little disappointing. I had the sad impression take a few steps back. The characters lose their maturity, romance is put aside, the plot stagnates and lengths remain marked when they were highly attenuated in previous novels through other elements of the story. Here, these have I missed or have been less well controlled than usual. The end of this volume catches up a bit while offering us beautiful surprises, but I must admit that FOR is not the result I expected. Nevertheless, I take the defense of the authors, saying that after nine novels, a slowdown is completely normal. As said earlier, players level, it really was not that. While well-conducted romance between Stark and Zoey had finally put to please me, everything goes wrong with this book. First, there are few moments that these two characters spend together. It's a shame. But the worst is that when they meet, they fight for trivial stories and uninteresting. Hello?! You are supposed to be soul mates and you still wonder if you can trust? Anything! This question set me more frustrated than anything else. Zoey and Stark have lost their budding maturity thing I loved in the last volumes. We saw them grow and become adults. Except that we take the opposite path, and it's very annoying. At the same time, I think it's a trait that the authors attributed to all their characters. Absolutely everyone was infantilized. Whether Lucie, Aphrodite, Damien, giants, Neferet, Kalona, Dragon, Shaunee and Erin, they all seemed much less touching and smarter than before. Aphrodite is still as funny with his repartee, but it loses its charm in "Piquant" each hero with less intelligence. Damien is too indented, something that bothered me. Good afternoon, PC and Kristin Cast serve us again the famous lengths I mentioned in my review of Volume 8. It happens so much that each protagonist is forced to tell others what he experienced. So, we often keep saying the same things twice. It's long and boring. Especially when characters who listen adopt inconsistent and really disturbing reactions. In short, the heroes have not convinced me this time, and that is regrettable. I really hope to find them in Volume 10 as I had left after closing the tome 8, and that FOR is only a little bit of slack on. Plot aside, I noticed, again, a little relaxation. The twists do not follow at the same pace than usual. Theater shots are of minimal extent, in the background. The overall plot stagnates a little in this story. FOR is only a transitional volume, while the saga had accustomed myself to really striking opus and with a real purpose. Fortunately, the atmosphere of this ninth aspect catching all these negative aspects. The atmosphere is still very involved and really bewitching because death is never far away. While surprises are not ubiquitous, you feel oppressed. For some volumes, the atmosphere has greatly transformed. Everything is much more black, more obsessive, much heavier. And I adoooooore that! We feel that the end is approaching more and more, and that chaos will not be long in coming. To continue with the very good side of the story, talk about the conclusion. Increasingly with this saga, the purpose of each novel we reserve a mountain revelations. FOR is no exception to the rule. The final chapters are filled with adrenaline and suspense, all sprinkled with enormous changes that I had not seen coming. Again, the authors leave us completely breathless for the future, and to come to erase some of the defects of the novel with an unexpected and exciting final. I can not wait to read HID now !!! In summary, FOR is a tome taking less and less moving than its predecessors. The characters are there for many, as they seemed to me immature and messy than usual. Zoey becomes frustrating to a head slap, and its history with Stark I really missed. All heroes have fallen, which is really annoying. The plot is, too, less intense and gripping than previous works. Fortunately, we dive back into a breathless and black atmosphere, symbolic of this saga I really appreciate. The conclusion of FOR is stunning and full of revelations, I'm terribly anxious to know the consequences in the further adventures of Zoey. An average reading and a little disappointing that has not lived up to my expectations. Despite everything, I love this series too for a judgment on the next album. FOR is a tome misbehaving on a really superb saga, so I'm not too worried about what awaits me in the last three books.
