This is the final book in the Underland Chronicles and Gregor must now deal with the Prophecy of Time, his feelings for Luxa, Solovet's cold heartedness and his thoughts on the Earl of Sandwich. It's a lot to handle and with the war between the rats and humans in full swing and both his mother and both sisters in the Underland as well Gregor is having a tough time dealing with it all.

Because I read the Hunger Games first I thought the outcome of this book would be much darker then it actually was. I felt a huge sense of relief when I finished reading the book and there were glimmers of hope regarding the survivors futures'.

That being said there is still a lot of death and violence in this book. The author didn't pull any punches. The realities of war are felt through out the book and each sacrifice made by the characters is just as gut wrenching as the last. You definitely feel how Gregor and Boots have been forced to grow up even faster, which is especially sad considering that their home life would always have made them adult a little bit sooner.

Now that I've finished the entire series I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about them. There is a lot of character development and I am a huge fan of watching characters change and grow. The world that the author developed is just amazing, I loved the creatures and the setting. I think the darkness of the plot and the story were perhaps just not for me at this time. I know this seems odd since I rated everything like but I like the work the author did just maybe not right for me.