Today's Promise

Better than book two, even if it suffers from some of the same deficits. It repeats a lot of the ending of book two - the first 10-20% is more or less the last 10% of book two with some added insight into what the characters were thinking. Why not put that in the previous book instead? And if you want to do a recap of what has happened so far, it must be possible to get it done in a less padded way.

You would also think that the third book (that concludes what has been the major storyline) would get to the main story a little earlier than about 40% in.

There are a couple of characters in this book that are approaching likeable - Jacko and Aí. I was actually rooting for them to survive - as opposed to most of the other characters where it really didn't matter to me if they survived or not. Pretty bad when you feel like that about the main character in a book where they are supposed to be liked... It felt like most of the characters in these books were stupid and selfish and rarely learned from their mistakes.

Oh, and the evil guys are really EVIL in all their evilness. Just in case you missed that they were EVIL it does get repeated a lot throughout the series. They are EVIL. Like, really.

I believe that the (so far) three books of this series could have been edited down to one long-ish or two shorter books since I really don't feel like there really is enough story for three books.

But that's just my opinion - I understand that there are people who really like this series as is. So maybe I am missing something.