I enjoyed reading the way things started for these characters. Kerr added a bit about the development of this series at the end. Again, this seems like a product resulting from the tiredness this book felt weighed down with. What happened to the evil tribe of djinn? They didn’t want to try to help the villain with his quest? And to be honest, the motivation of the villain was lame. Give us an ending worthy of all the other books in the series. Very disappointed in the last few chapters. I kept HOPING it would turn out that Dybbuk was pulling the chocolatier’s strings. This book was lacking a really good and quirky villain character. A great book is made partially by its good guy but also largely in part due to its bad guy. He found the tomb of Genghis Khan! He’s got to have some kind of intelligence. The villain has no role in the first 4/5 of the book, then becomes this easy to possess and stop character that holds no weight to the storyline. Also, the motivations and discovery of the villain was really a let down. It was just the right amount to be amusing and then even more fulfilling when he was reunited with his companions. I am glad the kidnapping of Groanan did not go on for too long. There were also very few difficulties and hardships the characters faced along the way. There was fun adventure, but there was a missing spark of excitement that the previous books po. It felt like everyone was rather ho-hum about everything as the plot progressed. What was the point to “Eye of the Forest,” my favorite one of the series? And what about their mother? Their father? I was hoping for some kind of ending that included their family. And NOTHING? That was a big cliffhanger! NOTHING? It made me feel like the previous books were moot.

First of all, what happened to Dybbuk? The end of book 5 Dybbuk crushes the good half of himself and recovers his djinn powers. Review 1: Not a bad book, but certainly not a great one, and one that is an ending to this imaginative and fun series.

The Eye of the Forest by P.B. Kerr