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This book was a big disappointment for me, because I simply adored the first 2 books from the Mark Of The Lion, in fact, I don’t remember crying as much while reading a book as I cried during A Voice in The Wind and especially An Echo in The Darkness. I adored Hadassah and Marcus and despite knowing that their story ended with Book II I sill wanted to read Book III and discover what happened to Atretes.

For the first time while reading these Christian books, the constant preaching and christianization bothered me deeply. I found all the characters very weak compared to those from the other books. Rizpah was in my opinion a poor copy of Hadassah and I even missed Julia that crazy, conniving bitch. I also did not felt a personal, strong connection with the love story between Atretes and Rizpah. As for the plot, I expected far more from Francine Rivers.

On a positive note let me say that I do not regret reading this, by all means, Francine Rivers is a great writer, her books are still among my all time favorites, I just felt this book to be very different from the other two, it should have been a separate book and not the ending of the trilogy or at least some loose pieces should have been addressed here, for instance, Atretes knowing that Hadassah survived the arena, Hadassah knowing that Atretes found his son and ultimately discovered the lord among others.