This reader's personal opinion, ©2015, all rights reserved, not to be quoted, clipped or used in any way by Google Play, amazon.com or other commercial booksellers* 

Shock and awe.  I absolutely love this series--and am not likely to be able to write a coherent review, any attempt at even starting to talk about what happens is likely to be just a series of spoiler tags.  In fact, if you haven't read the earlier works, read no further.  I think I managed avoiding spoilers for this particular book except as tagged; but, it definitely contains series spoilers.

Glad I held off reading until last hours of Saturday's Dewey's Readathon -- both because easily kept me reading and because the book hangover of this world staying with me would have made reading another book immediately after very difficult. 

Starting with the aftermath of last book's ending:

This reader's personal opinion, ©2015, all rights reserved, not to be quoted, clipped or used in any way by Google Play, amazon.com or other commercial booksellers* 

I'm not ready to start another book yet.  Major book hangover from this one.  I know I stayed up way too late reading when I open to find things I highlighted/noted for this review and the text on ereader had been enlarged to a huge size.

"And as Paksenarrion is there, perhaps she will ride back

with me to Fin Panir to see the necklace."

This series is one of my favorite to read; this series is one of my least favorite to review.  Just hard to explain exactly why such a favorite.  I doubt any if my reviews for this series make a lot of sense. This one had more gnomes.