I will have a FBC rv probably around its Jan 4 publication date so again some points without (major) spoilers;

- Dante narrates for the major part of the story, but there are interludes from Anne that eventually grow in length and we even read Portier's thoughts once again and Ilario for the first time, so all the main series characters narrate at least a little

- the transitions are handled well though there is this tiny lack of smoothness as opposed to the one narrator earlier books

- the novel has a lot of magic, way too much in a way at least for me and the story becomes a very traditional one (long ago evil etc, etc) with a lot of stuff I've seen in countless novels to date, so again the originality of the first two books is somewhat lacking

- but the extraordinary characters, beautiful prose and superb ending more than make up for the above; I cannot emphasize how hard is to end series well and this does it pitch perfect imho

Overall a top 25 book for me and one that should satisfy the fans of the series to date, while being quite accessible to people who have not read the earlier two volumes (though of course i highly recommend them to do it) as the necessary back story is recounted, while here the action moves in very different places with generally very different secondary characters than in books 1/2