A review by marvelruinedmyspirit
Age of Empyre by Michael J. Sullivan

3.0

I had a few problems with this series as a whole which I'll summarize in this review, but before then quickly, I felt like this last book's ending was a bit lacking. On the one hand I absolutely loved the very last scene

between Turin and Muriel

and I did tear up when

Turin and Persephone were talking about Royce (and I think Modina?) and when he says that he has to hope that no one is beyond redemption

. On the other hand there were other parts of the series which were barely touched upon, and characters (including pov characters) about whom not even a line is written. On the whole I felt that Riyria wrapped up better.
As for the series, while I liked learning about the mythology as opposed to the transformed story we hear about in Riyria, I think that I would have been content with the legends of Novron and Persephone, because the real story wasn't super compelling (

and given the fact that i still can't understand Raithe's appeal... this romance was a bummer

). As for the rest of the cast, while they all had their moments,

they stayed in the afterlife too long

, at one point I stopped caring.