Why this works is unclear, but the protagonists seem convince this is enough, so I guess readers are meant to be convinced, as well. Rather, readers get a pretty confusing scene where the Emissary is evidently defeated by, well, (spoiler alert) falling into a river. The climax of the book does not really solve this problem.

One expects more from a being allegedly never before defeated by humans. He is then evaded each time fairly easily by a young girl who does not know anything about what she is doing. Rather, the Emissary of Death appears to pop up at very convenient times. Despite the threat of Death itself, however, the book fails to deliver a plot that feels significantly sinister. Bridge of Souls suffers from the same issues apparent in the first two books–a standard plot combined with lackluster characterization–and ultimately fails to justify all the buildup given it by the previous installments in the series.Īs the (presumably) final book in the trilogy, Bridge of Souls probably should also be the scariest. They possess all the right ingredients, but somehow those ingredients never combine to make something memorable. Victoria Schwab does not really deliver anything new here, nor are the stories particularly creepy or even particularly evocative as travel narratives. A travel series with a supernatural twist? Sign me up! Unfortunately, however, I have found all three books to be perfectly capable, but also perfectly mediocre.

I started the Cassidy Blake series with high hopes.

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