Spent most of the book actively loathing one of the main characters, regardless of the explanation behind his behavior, and that got real old, real fast. But generally, pretty good (Vandien! Fencing!) and better than the middle two if not as good as the first. Megan Lindholm was still working her way up to becoming Robin Hobb, but all the potential was there.

I'm not ready to leave this world, I want to know so much more about it :(But I do have a complain about the series: even if there are four books written in this world, there was so much more left unsaid, and the very new and interesting races just skimmed upon and not detailed as much as they could have been..

A good end to the series. I really liked the new young characters and magical elements added to the world. I felt like the end of the book was a little rushed though and would have liked some more closure between Ki and Van.

I liked this book about Ki and Vandien the most out of the whole four. However, I did not feel as if there was an ongoing story through the series that reached a conclusion in this one. Rather, it felt mostly like a completely seperate story, except for the fact it happened to involve the two main characters of the previous books. That being said, I have to remark that I found this book constructed well, flavored with enough mystery to keep me interested as I read on and things began to fall int...

One of the great joys of life is when you discover that a series of books you've known and loved for a long time is actually a quartet! I was delighted to find this fourth episode in the story of Ki and Vandien. It feels quite a lot darker than the earlier books. Forced to leave their usual routes to avoid upsetting the Windsingers, they find themselves in a difficult country ruled by a cruel, despotic Duke. They are hired to transport a young teenage youth to his Uncle's town to be apprenticed

I finished the book last night, and with it - the whole quartet, therefore this rating is both for this book and for the series as a whole. It has been an incredible journey with Ki and Vandien and leaving this world after so long will be a challenge. At some places the structure of the narrative is a little strange but once you get used to it, it is not a problem anymore. This is a great story of loss and loneliness which turns into a story with a happy ending, after the characters find their p...

Not bad at all, the only other books from Robin Hobb/Megan Lindholm that I actually like... The Ship and Shaman series failed to drag me in but bot this one.

There's something about this quartet that bothers me, and I don't know what it is. I like the characters, I like the world-building, but each time I read them, despite wanting to re-experience them, I'm also hesitant and reluctant. Probably because of the pain Lindholm puts them through, I suppose, and this last book has plenty and to spare of that.My main problem with this book is Gotheris -- he's just so hard to sympathise with, and you probably should, but you can't... much like Ki and Vandie...

This is the last in the Windsingers series and Ki and Vandien’s adventures come to an end.Following the advice of Rebeke, (view spoiler)[the powerful Windsinger who played a part in Ki’s rescue from the previous volume (hide spoiler)], the couple fled their land and went to far south, in a desert and hot region. Although they do not carry people in their wagon, this time they accept a job to take a child to his uncle in a further town, to be his apprentice as a healer.But the child is not what h...

...I would like to say that Luck of the Wheels is a fitting conclusion for the series but that would probably not be correct. In some ways it still feels like an incomplete series. Lindholm wrote as self contained stories however. The ending of this novel is satisfying enough but I can’t help but wonder what else Lindholm had in mind for the two companions. This novel is probably the most well-written of the quartet. The pacing in particular has much improved since the first novel in the series....

Maybe my favorite of the series. I’m just amazed that when you go this far into her back catalog, the books are still so skillful, thoughtful, and imaginative.

Very satisfying ending to the poignant, thoughtful, funny and action-packed Windsingers series, though I hope it's not the end! Goat was a frustrating character, but so interesting how his qualities spurred Ki and Vandien to consider the qualities they admired and wanted to share with others.

The fourth of the quartet. And I still hadn't come around to liking the lead character all that much. This book tested that slightly positive regard severely. I likened it to a B. F. Skinner experiment. Intermittent positive reinforcement. That is the only reason I've read this whole series. There are moments in these books, moments that transcend the novice writing of Megan Lindholm. Moments that hint at the wonderfully descriptive and evocative writing of Robin Hobb in the Farseer trilogy, and...

I continue to fall deep into the worlds built by Robin Hobb (Megan Lindholm), get lost in them and entangle in them so thoroughly that, at the end of the pages, leaving them becomes physically difficult (seriously, I suffer from such a cruel book hangover from a few days that I can't read anything new - I keep wishing to get back to the world I just left and sometimes I find myself giving up the pretense and just re-reading the books all over again). I keep reading comparisons between her works

This one is by far the best of the four Windsinger novels. Pity the other three weren't as good as this. But still, the whole quadrilogy is worth reading, and number 4 a real hinghlight within it.

I'm so sad to finish this book, knowing that there are no more Ki and Vandien books to read after this fourth book!I loved this story, with Ki and Vandien once more on the road, although, this time, their wagon isn't as comfortable, or convenient, as their past ones have been.They still had their, very patient, team of horses, the sometimes feisty Sigurd, and the placid Sigmund, and they have moved down far to the south, away from any Windsingers that might recognise them.Unfortunately, it looks...

This earlier book by my favorite author starts with the tritest of tabletop roleplaying situations. You are in a tavern looking for work. A local will pay you to escort his young son to another town to be apprenticed.But even the opening is cleverly done, and then you are taken on a whirlwind and thoroughly engrossing ride, surprises around each corner.I read the first 3 books in the series years ago. The third lagged somewhat. I am so glad to have found this one, now that the internet makes it

Lindholm/Robb is one of my top authors, and this is a great early series of hers. This is the best of the quartet, and you can see her style really developing. I've really enjoyed this world.

I feel I should like this series more. I love Robin Hobb books and there’s nothing inherently wrong with the plot. However the books just seem to drag.

The ONLY thing that keeps this book from being 5 stars is how much I disliked Goat for 99.9% of the book. I had to keep putting it down because that kid drove me nuts! Otherwise a good ending to the series.