The Queen of Sorrow: From the Author of The Spellshop Comes a Final Clash of Queens, Nature Spirits, and Unyielding Resolve in the Epic Conclusion to the Queens of Renthia Trilogy

Amazing story! Sarah Beth Durst has quite the imagination. I’ll be reading more of her stories

I enjoyed this final book in the Queens Of Renthia series. Political intrigue, romance, scary new lands and frightening new spirits abound!! I really loved that Naelin is an older queen and her romance with Ven was refreshing to this older YA reader!! I’m still a little confused by Merecot’s ploy and how it was resolved but I’m very happy with the ending and the new future of Renthia. I’m excited to read the next installment to the series and hope to see more of the queens of the main trilogy and Bayn!!

A lot of loose ends were tied together at the end of this third volume of this fantasy series. It was an entertaining book, that held my interest. Events got arranged for a possible sequel someday. It is the case, however, that much has been resolved, so on balance, there is little need for a sequel. The “spirits” of creation and destruction, showed themselves to be necessary parts of the world. This knowledge was obtained as a result of attempting to eliminate the spirits. They remain a strange and intriguing part of this world. They are, to a certain extent, symbolic of nature in its wild exuberance, bringing both the necessary world of possibility, of beauty, and of the potential of our survival, but also an insane angry fury of destruction toward us humans. The queens possess some very limited power to command this fury and tame it: There is an intelligence behind the spirits that occasionally leads them to voluntarily submit to the queens, as the citizens of a realm submit to the leadership of a queen. While there are some fairly strong male characters, the women dominate in this world. In this sense, the story told is utopian, based within a hierarchy of female domination. On the other hand, the ambitions and desires of the queens and other strong women in the story lend a dark aspect to this utopia, but not so much that we would characterize the tale as dystopian. At the end of the book, we see that the resolution is somewhat positive, but tinged with sadness. I…

Please please please write more about the queens! I love this series. Already read them all! I need more!

I liked the characters and the plot in these 3 books (this being the third). Looking forward to seeing more of the Spirits along with Ice Witches and more to come.