User blog comment:Archer of Az-Zure/The Third Door Review/@comment-13471095-20170808193619/@comment-821448-20170822220807

Personally I have vivid memories of Farr. Unless you mean Jett? Who was not really a villain at all. If you meant the Shadow Lord though, I'd argue it wasn't really at all. He was more of a puppeteer and nothing else. I really loved that it was about him/it, though. That we got some background on the Shadow Lord. Where he had come from. I had always wondered these things myself and wanted to know it.

EDIT: Oh wait, you mean Barron. I do remember him very well too though. Anyway, you say the Shadow Lord didn't need to be the villain, however it was bound to happen from the moment that we got the scene of him/it swearing that he would return to Dorne in Tales of Deltora (the new edition). The memory scene was odd, and yeah, not sure if that was necessary at all. I agree with that. I also would have liked to see some more varied locations. I loved the scene in the collapsed museum though. That felt different and new to me.

For me the book was a 10/10 or at least close to it, but opinions differ.