The third book in The Lost Queen series (no longer a trilogy, woohoo!) was impatiently awaited by me for over a year. I was so happy to get back into this series and world that captivated me so much. The characteristic that sets this third book apart from the first two is what I believe to be its biggest weakness: points-of-view from four different characters. The first book was just Languoreth, the second was Languoreth and Lailoken, and this one added Artúr and Angharad. It was interesting to be able to switch points-of-view so that the reader had the best front-row view to whatever was going on in the book, but it also took away from us being able to dig deep into the characters and really understand what they were feeling and experiencing, as I feel we were able to do for the first two books. BUT, the stories of these people are based as close as possible to what could have really happened and I can see how that could limit a writer who wants to do justice to their stories. I guess the only remedy for this would have been to make it longer?
A few small grumbles from me: the sword in the stone scene felt like an underwhelming few sentences and I would have loved to see this a little larger. And we didn’t hear about the men who follow the old ways as having multiple wives until the end of the third book. I feel like this should have been at least mentioned in the earlier books, and find it odd that none of the men we’ve encountered thus far have had more than one at a time (that have been mentioned anyway).
Overall though, this is an excellent continuation in the series and I hope going forward we can have closer links to the characters.

I was given a copy of this book by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.