My mom didn't love this third book in the trilogy, but I don't know, I really did. I liked how it came full circle in a lot of ways. I liked the parallels to The Last Battle (last of the Narnia books that Grossman plays off of so well) and the ways it very purposefully diverged from Narnia. I liked where Quentin was at the end. I liked the whales.
There were a few random details that bugged me: how did Eliot know where to find them in New York when they were in a house so strongly shielded? What happened to that kid Stoppard who was supposed to meet up with them in New York? I thought they only had one button, but suddenly they had two? Why didn't Quentin go hole up in Josh's palace in Italy? I found these little details annoying in a book so otherwise likeable - the way that, as an editor, I'll mark up a really good essay with a lot more red ink than I'd waste on a bad one, because it's just so close! But overall, thank you, Mr. Grossman, I loved these books.
On another note, as I was reading, I couldn't help constantly quoting Wash from Firefly in my head. "This is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... This Land." Yep.
