Spoiler Alert

I finished my most recent book, Wizard Of Most Wicked Ways, this afternoon.   I'm going to give a bit of a review of it at the end of this post, but I wanted to give you a spoiler alert first.  It'll be a somewhat predictable spoiler, but still...this is your warning.  

But where should you stop reading if you want to avoid it?  When you get to the picture of the book cover.  I'll do the review after that -- the spoilery part at least.  I will say, however, I've thoroughly enjoyed this series, and would highly recommend it to anyone who likes the fantasy/magic genre. 

My other book, Ship Of Brides, isn't going quite as well.  It's not a bad book, but it isn't holding my interest all that well.  Still, I'm halfway through, so I'll keep plugging away at it.  I think I'll also start re-reading The Pendragon Cycle, by Stephen R. Lawhead.  

In other news, they've decided we need to have morning meetings with our group leader or supervisor at work every day.  We used to have them but had stopped years ago.  Probably because there really isn't that much to say in them after a while.  I mean, there are only so many times you can go over the same old safety rules, and only so many ways to say do your job.  

This morning, at the end of the meeting, Group Leader Shark said, "Have a blessed day," and I raised my hand and said, "If I'm going to have a blessed day, I need to go back home!"  Alas, that was not an option for me, but yesterday Substitute Supervisor did the meeting and at one point had said, "If you don't feel up to working, just don't even come."

So Demi-god stayed home today. 

And finally, since I can't remember what else it was I wanted to tell you, I'll get right in to the book review, and again, this is your final warning.  Stop reading here if you don't want to run up on a spoiler. For those of you who don't want to read the book review, good night.  I'm going to go watch another episode of The Crown.  

Laters. 

 And now for the spoiler part of my book review. 

The series revolves around a boy named Owein Mansel, who died at the age of 12, and somehow managed to embed his soul into a house on a lonely island off of the coast of Rhode Island, where his family had lived.  

Sometime later, during the Victorian Age, his great great great...I don't know how many greats...nephew Merritt Fernsby inherits the house and moves into it setting off a chain of events during which Owein's soul is transferred to a dog, then finally into the body of another boy who had drowned at the age of 14.  Throughout the series, he is pursued by an evil magician named Silas Hogwood who above all craves power.  

In this fourth book, the inevitable showdown between Owein and Silas finally happens, there on the island.  There is an epic battle magic battle and just when you expect huge climax, you read: 

Silas Hogwood passed away. 

It's a bit of a letdown after all of that buildup.  I'm no author, but I'd have expected something more along the lines of:  With a defiant shriek of rage and hatred, the soul of Silas Hogwood was shattered and ripped from this world, never to return.  Finally, it was over. 

Other than that, the series was very good, and I'd highly recommend it.