User blog comment:Archer of Az-Zure/The Silver Door Review/@comment-13471095-20170801184721

Oh boy, this book is a mixed bag. Not the worst book in my opinion (that is book 3), but man, after seeing how beautifully Rodda handled the themes of despair in Dragons of Deltora, this felt like a wattered down version of that. I love the Shadow Lord, but it and the Ak-Baba felt tacked on in order to hook in as many Deltora fans as possible, while offering little to no development for the characters in this series. None of the alternate future characters were that memorable, and the whole book just felt kind of pointless, outside of one or two interesting scenes, and Sholto's master. I guess I'd give it a 6.5/10, since I did like the scenes you mentioned, but it felt like there was so much more potential to this book.