Maggert has another winner with Ring and the girls! The well researched historical content, fantasy/paranormal and the entwined lives of the fearless ones continues to entertain and amaze. While it could stand alone, that would be a real disservice to the reader. Get them all!
Rebecca Cook is an extremely talented and versatile audio performer! ( )

Maggert has another winner with Ring and the girls! The well researched historical content, fantasy/paranormal and the entwined lives of the fearless ones continues to entertain and amaze. While it could stand alone, that would be a real disservice to the reader. Get them all!
RC is a highly talented audio performer who brings so much to the characterizations. ( )

Hmmm... I didn't like this book as much as the previous two in the series, and I'm actually hesitant to admit that. I spent extra time trying to figure out, specifically, why this is...

The story felt... well... abridged. New characters are introduced, but I don't see the point of them (unless they are getting ready to appear in the next book... but, even so, they should have had a point in this book, but I failed to see it.) Sure, I can think up some reasons why they were added, but none of them feel like necessary reasons - the story could have carried on to the same conclusion without them.

And even the key bad guy feels abridged: he is referenced a few times, toward the first part and middle of the novel, and then all of a sudden shows up for the final battle... one minute he was "heading West" and the next time we see him, he has suddenly arrived to the exact place he needed to be. It was like a segment explaining his point (and why he was headed for our hero's group) was cut out of the story. I think there was room for this, but ... this is why the story feels abridged... lots of things happened, but they were sudden and unexpected, like the chapter(s) leading up to these events were cut out of the story.

The main 3 characters are as well done as in the first two books, and they even showed a bit of growth and change, so that part of the story was still very well done... it was just the appearance of all these new characters (both good and bad) near the first of the book, then nothing else about them until the very end of the book (and some not even then) that made the story feel odd. Yes, there was one "pop in" character that had a point later in the story so perhaps these others were there to camouflage that one character (i.e. hide the important red herring in a pot of red herrings)... ( )