The Endless Knot (Song of Albion Series #3) Book

Wow. What a disappointment.

I wish Lawhead had finished the series with book 2. The first two books together make up one of the most exciting and beautiful stories in modern fantasy.

This book is tacked on, it feels, as though it were an afterthought. Nothing happens for 2/3 of the book. Then there's a quest, filled with the narrator ending chapters with phrases like "if only they had known what was about to happen!!!" Dun dun dun... And then, yeah, there's a bit of danger, but nothing extraordinary. You never feel that there's any danger to the main character.

Until the sudden and very anticlimactic hero feat.

And the end. Are you kidding me? Is the author actually suggesting that the hero feat of Lewis in some way made the eucharist more eucharistic? That his feat somehow made people in the real world more religious? There was a reason Tolkien never attempted to write about the Incarnation in his fantasy. It's a very, very bad idea.

It took me half a year to finish this book. I wish I hand't. I wish I had just ended with book 2.