Only the strong rise from despair. Only the strong can take betrayal and batter it into submission. The Stranglandermen are no more.
In Dragon’s Mist, we saw Connor establish his castle. In Dragon’s Born, he secured his land. In Dragon’s Realm, he exterminated a mortal enemy, and in Dragon’s Knight, he took his continent. Now three continents gather to wipe Connor and his knights from the Circle Sea. Can our hero survive their combined might?
And what of Dave, the maverick Englishman? Will he become useful or remain the fool?
Dragon’s End completes the epic 4X city building LitRPG saga, Warlords of the Circle Sea. At over a million words, it is a comprehensive tribute to hours, days, and weeks spent playing MMORPGs of varying flavors.
Contains curse words, heartbreak and a mad Englishman
Frenetic pacing for 1100 pages is an impressive feat.
The book starts in the middle of the action from the previous book. This would have worked better for me had I read the previous book more recently, but as it was, the beginning didn't have even a minimal recap to bring a reader into this book.
The book is a non-stop series of existential threats, each more dangerous than the last, until we get to an apparently unbeatable universal threat in the last third or so.
The book plays by its own rules pretty well, so the choices of the main character group make a difference and make sense. The level of threat and timing of actions do stretch credulity a bit, but the result is quite exciting, if a bit exhausting.
The ending is a bit unsatisfying, being abrupt and failing to resolve the storylines in a completely satisfying manner.
But overall, this is a solid ending to a very good LitRPG series.
I am redoing this review since the 5 book series is completed and I have read them all. I classify this as a portal litrpg 4x. The 4x is base/civ building similar to some mobile games or computer games. Each book feels different from the one before it. For instance, book 1 is mostly a normal litrpg, then ends with base building, while book 2 is heavily into base building and military campaigns. Each new book also focuses on a new side character. What's interesting, is that later in the series, two of the characters I cared the least about, became the most interesting, to the point that I wanted to read more about them than Connor.
I give this whole series a 5 out of 5, and it has a wonderful ending.