/lit/ - Literature

Well this went to shit in the final installment.

In the first book, the author establishes a multiverse where four worlds have varying amounts of ambient magic, and the MCs are significant because they have the rare ability to travel between worlds. In the second book, author sets up a trilogy end-boss who is made of magic/feeds on ambient magic/gains power from ambient magic. Logically, defeating the end boss should involve the defining features of the books -- the unique setting and the MCs' abilities -- by having the MCs drag the big bad to the nearly-magicless world and beating the shit out of him there. But no, the idiot MCs take on the big bad in the world with the most magic, by using a Macguffin that not only hasn't been mentioned or telegraphed in any of the earlier books, but outright contradicts the rules for magic stated in the earlier books. Whatever the antithesis of Chekhov's gun is, that's what the gimmick at the end of this book was.

The gratuitously miserable Holland flashbacks were okay though.