Covenant's End is the fourth and final book in the Widdershins Adventures
by Ari Marmell. These are young adult books, although I didn't know
this when I bought the first book. I can see why they're classified as
YA, although I don't think that's a label they should necessarily be
stuck with. I enjoyed them all (even if I felt that one of them wasn't
quite in line with the other three).
The premise of this final
book is that Widdershins is returning to Davillon, after fleeing (and
yes, she finally admits that she fled) and spending some time away from
"home." She thinks it's going to be grand coming home, meeting up with
old friends, and picking up her life where she left off. But while
she's been gone, some of her old enemies have banded together and made a
few unnatural allies, and they've been waiting for her return. Even
before she reaches the city, Widdernshins realizes that she isn't going
to receive the homecoming she thought . . . and that her friends are in
as much danger as she is.
This was a great final chapter in
Widdershins' adventures. She needed to return home again, not just
because of the threads hinting of it in earlier books, but because she
needed to face herself and what had happened to her in the city. As Ari
Marmell states himself, she needed to grow up. She thought she'd left
the city after a previous adventure because it would be safer for her
friends, but she really simply fled. Because of fear, because of the
deaths of some of her friends, brought about by her own actions, and
because she wasn't ready to face those emotions and that
responsibility. But after her time away (which is the book that I don't
feel fits the general thread of the series; sort of an odd man out),
she's had enough time to realize that she's been lying to herself about
why she left and she's now ready to face the truth.
Covenant's End, by Ari Marmell | Science Fiction | SFReader.com Book Review
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