** spoiler alert ** Oh my god, I'm done the series. I feel very...

It's over and the story has ended. Everyone I read about, their story...has ended and they don't go on.

Right off, the book is excellent and you defiantly must have read the other two books to understand what is going on.

I'd like to point out that there was a HUGE lack of Blake just like in the second book. In the first book, Blake was practically a character. I missed him and really never knew what happened to him. I can only go with my thoughts, so Blake is happily living with his owners in Hylfing.

Richard is a mystery as well. We never really know what he ends up doing, except when Henry mentions something about him at the end of the book which may give the reader a clue.

The opening was simple enough.

I liked the action that took place right away with the police officers.

Now right off I knew that when Zeke's mom, Tilly Johnson, was laughing with Caleb...I knew that they would get married. I so saw it coming. That's not a bad thing, it's just, I saw it coming.

For me the story didn't really get going until the soldier's took the family and set the house on fire.
The everyone had interweaving plots going on all based around the problem of the story.

I seriously was anxious to know what would happen if Henry was able to save Henrietta and Grandmother and Rags from the burning house. I was feeling huge emotions with Dotty, for seeing her daughter being thrown into the burning house.

Coradin was very different from anyone I had ever read about. He kind of reminded me of Darius from the second book, but Coradin was actually human. The whole Fingerling thing was creepy and creative.

To be controlled by a finger growing out of the back of your head...nasty!

I hate how Henry feels so compelled to journey alone. I am so glad Henrietta is so headstrong and clever. She sticks to her guns and stands her grounds. She and Henry discovered the cupboards together, they would travel together.

The wisdom of Grandmother Anastasia was sweet and charming like how any old lady should be. I was devastated when she died. She went peacefully and had said goodbye to Mordecai and Henry through their dreams because they were seventh sons.
Even though she was worlds away, Henry felt real emotion in his dream, and when he had awakened.
The dream was real, and so was his inheritance. His grandmother had poured knowledge and courage and every kind of strength and emotion from her lifetime and her husband's, into Henry, so that with eh Blackstar and his Dandelion Fire, he could ultimately defeat the undead Witch Queene Nimiane, of Endor.

The battle in the library and the battle at the ships were exciting and I hung on every word.
I was satisfied that Monmoth had freed the slaves and was the cause of the revolt and retaking of the ship. It was funny that the ship turned into growing trees.
When Frank had advised his boyhood pal to dump himself out of the ship to drown, I ached for him. He had done a lot of evil before and it was awkward seeing him on the opposite of the spectrum, but when he finally did go...it was with a somber sadness and I imagined the scene with tears and sore throat.

The whole Faren business got really confusing and lost me for a bit. I'd need to read this book again to focus on what I missed.

Nimiane finally is killed, and how does one kill someone or something that cannot be killed? You'll have to read this book.

I was happy that Henry got to crown Fat Frank as The Chestnut King and that he would get to be a faerie again.
When it was decided that everyone was going to stay in Hylfing, I felt a small tug of sadness that the Wills brood would not return to Kansas.
They did head over to return Zeke and to say goodbye to Grandmother at her gravestone. This was also the last mention of Henrietta in the book. took note of t because she was my favorite female character. Then Caleb gave Tilly his mother's ring, and there you go, the engagement. It made me smile.

Then Zeke's house is emptied and abandoned as he and his mom move to Hylfing with the Willis brood and Henry's family. They rebuild Henry's house and build two more houses as well, for Dotty and Tilly and there respective families.

Then, flash forward 5 years. What!? Henry is 18 and he and his family are going to visit Dotty's sister, Henry's adoptive mom.

The site of the old Willis house has become a museum and local hot spot for the newly refurbished town of Henry, Kansas. The house is still there, just invisible and deteriorated from flood water and age.

Then in the epilogue, Henry and Zeke are going to college!!!!! And Henry meets a girl named Mary, and he likes her.
The very end of the book is Henry with Mary, opening a door in the air.

So the book ends kind of in the air (literally). Will Mary be intrigued, or will she run away in terror? That is what the reader will have to come to choose at the appointed time.
I need to own this series.