She also started to have nightmares about the fate Jonathan was facing in the Underworld which prompts Lanore to find Adair and ask him to help her go help him. Lanore honored her promise to him and stayed with him to the end but she always had thoughts of Adair and Jonathan in the back of her mind. Unfortunately it is only 4 years later and Luke, being the mortal he is, has died after suffering from a brain tumor. This is very much a character driven story and although Lanore and Adair and the main characters, we still get introduced to a number of new characters as well as revisit some old ones.Īfter leaving Adair in book two, Lanore made the decision to go back to Luke. Katsu does a great job of summarizing the previous books and bringing the reader back into Lanore’s life but I am always super impatient with series books and because there are so many characters and so much going on, reading both books in a row helped me keep it all straight. The epic story of love and loss, magic and destiny that began with The Taker and sparked a chase around the world in The Reckoning comes to a surprising conclusion with The Descent.I started this one immediately after finishing The Reckoning and I am glad I did. Of all the forces of the universe, the most mysterious, confounding, and humbling is the power of love. Will Lanore honor her promise to Adair to return? Or is her intention to reunite with Jonathan at any cost? She wants Adair to send her to the hereafter so she may beg the Queen of the Underworld to release Jonathan, whom she has been keeping as her consort. But things turned out far different than she’d imagined.įour years later, Lanore has tracked Adair to his mystical island home, where he has been living in self-imposed exile, to ask for a favor. When Adair was freed 200 years later, she was sure that he would find her and make her existence a living hell. She betrayed Adair’s trust and imprisoned him behind a stone wall to save Jonathan, the love of her life. Lanore McIlvrae has been on the run from Adair for hundreds of years, dismayed by his mysterious powers and afraid of his temper.

The final installment in the “mesmerizing” ( Booklist, starred review) and addictive trilogy-find out who truly holds the key to Lanny’s heart and whether she’ll ever be reunited with her beloved in this gripping supernatural tale of magic, lust, and longing.

The descent alma katsu