Oh my goodness, this had to be one of the most satisfying conclusions to a trilogy that I have ever read. It involved me fist pumping, beaming, reading breathlessly, awwing and you know, the whole spectrum of emotions. It was so so good to see Tamir come into her own as a woman, as a soldier and as a queen. It was very easy for me to forget that she was a mere fifteen at the time because the way she was written, seemed to be at least in her twenties. But experiences age a person far more and the...

[7/10]The conclusion to the Tamir Triad is a satisfying one, solving the war of succession for the throne of the Skalan Empire in a spectacular battle that shows how Lynn Flewelling is capable not only of creating interesting magic systems and of raising gender issues in a fantasy setting, but also of managing a furious and extended action sequence.The road to this battle was sometimes slow though and took a lot of detours into romance and moral dillemas instead of nation re-building. I liked th...

I thought The Tamir Triad was excellent. I must forewarn that the books should be read together because they really do form one story, not three stories that tie together. I really liked the pacing of the story. With the exception of a rather lengthy discussion of the main villain's youth in the third book, it never lets up. Every action leads to the next in a realistic way.I especially like how Flewelling dealt with the concept of gender identity, sexuality and growing up. Her protagonist is un...

I must point out that overall I would give the whole series 4-5 stars. I just find this book to be weak.Let me start with what I didn't like. I found it strange that a book that is, in part, about a woman's strength, only has one young woman. While the two older woman, who had larger parts in the first two books, are well protrayed, Tamir is surronded by men and boys in this last book. This makes sense because she used to "be" a boy. Flewelling, however, brings back Una, but gives her such a sma...

The perfect ending to a great trilogy. In some ways it felt stretched, but it was all worth it in the end for Tamir (formerly Tobin) and Korin's final battle. Also, the author did not shy away from showing how strange it must be to have your best friend suddenly change gender in front of you. Ki and Tamir's relationship is wonderfully complicated and angst-filled.

I had mixed feelings on the first two books in this series, but this final installment wrapped (almost) everything up so satisfyingly that I feel like it more than makes up for the not-quite-as-strong first two volumes. There are still aspects of how Flewelling handled Tamir's gender which I think could have been improved, but the story overall just felt so incredibly... whole and complete that it honestly doesn't feel as much like a weakness as it did before.I think more than anything I appreci...

I forgot I read this series a few years back and LOVED it. Definitely one of my faves.

There are so many ways in which trilogies can go wrong - either they start off great and slowly decline, or become ruined because of a third book that makes no sense whatsoever. Happily, The Oracle's Queen does neither of those. In fact, this is a trilogy that got better as it went along (after a very solid first book!) Flewelling does an excellent job of detailing character growth, from Korin's downward spiral to Ki slowly learning to accept Tamír as she is. Some of the problems were resolved e...

Okay, fair warning that 1) this review is actually for the whole series because I read it all at once, and 2) this is a review I rediscovered that I wrote in 2010 right after finishing the series. As a result, I honestly don't remember enough specifics about the series to say whether I would feel exactly the same way about the series today or whether my opinion might change. Please keep those both in mind when reading this review.Also note I tried to avoid spoilers but even at the time of writin...

While I did like both of the previous books in the series... there were some things in there that really bothered me, even at the time. Among them were the treatment of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and rape as being traumatizing and horrible whenever men are the perpetrators, but easily shrugged off and even leading to sexyfuntimes when it's female-on-male—which is sadly not even the first time that this particular author has had this particular problem. (Tanil is suffering from severe PTS...

The first book was fantastic. The second one is was not satisfying, but still good in some parts. The last book of the series fails to string everything together to give the reader a sense of fulfillment that an epic trilogy should.(view spoiler)[I cannot sympathize with the protagonist. Sure she had a tough childhood but she is so protected and loved by everyone and nothing bad ever happens to her there isn't really a struggle of any kind. Everything is on her side: her people support and love

The story begins (two books earlier) with a kingdom where the god has decreed that rule must be held by a queen of the blood. He meant it; the few times a man has usurped the throne there have been plagues, famines, and other signs of deific displeasure. However, the last queen was completely mad, and her son wound up with the crown as his sister was too young to rule... and then it turned out the sister had inherited a bit of the mother's mad streak... The king was a good ruler, and beloved des...

This book was an okay conclusion to what was just an okay series. I felt that there was a lot of unnecessary fluff in every book that only served to bog the story down rather than propel the characters forward, and this book was the most guilty of that. Not that much really happened, even though it was supposed to feel like the climactic ending to a series. Instead, it just fell kind of flat. I mean the big bad baddy of the series died by (view spoiler)[being pushed out of a window. (hide spoile...

I think this was actually the weakest of the trilogy, but still enjoyable. I will be reading more by this author.

Lynn Flewelling is an amazing story teller with an endearing prose and she makes me care for the characters.Although I think this is a fitting conclusion to the trilogy, I did have a lot to nag about in this book.The two main reasons being everything Prophecy-related and Tamír herself. I can't tell you how often she annoyed me, over and over again. Apart from that, I really hate prophecies and how they pave the way for the heroes with conveniences.(view spoiler)[It is so nice to stay honorable w...

Had you asked me to rate it in the beginning half, I would probably have given it a 3.5 or 4. But around the middle and onwards the pace really picked up, and my goodness... What an unbelievably satisfying ending to such a wonderful trilogy! I'm so happy with how things played out, and so sad to say goodbye to some of my favourite characters (Tamir, Ki, Tharin, Arkoniel, and so many more). Teared up at the epilogue, so so good.

I thorougly enjoyed the Tamir Triad trilogy, despite the fact that the third book was a bit weaker than the first two, giving into to more commonplace tropes of the genre. The most memorable scene for me from this third part was the visit to the Oracle pit with its eerie description. The final visit to the tower left me with some unanswered questions for the final psychic release (?) of that particular angry spirit at the end of the book, which was dealt in haste.

4.5 really. This series is so wonderful.

An enjoyable series with a tidy ending (which I always appreciate).

literally one heartbreak after another. this was rough. the epilogue did make me cry in the workplace. thank u lynn

3.5* It was a good book but it could be great!It feels to me that the author decided to write ya book to complete this trilogy.Still, I really enjoyed this trilogy.

You know a book is great when you feel sad once you finish it.- well, right now, I'm devastated.This book is everything I was hoping for since volume one, and somewhere in my mind I'm building Lynn Flewelling a shrine for making my wishes come true in both expected and unexpected ways.As fellow Tamir-Triad-readers, I am also already missing all the loyal characters.

Synopsis:Under the rule of a usurper king, the realm of Skala has suffered famine, plague, and invasion. But now the time for the rightful heir has come, a return to the tradition of warrior queens. And the Lightbearer’s prophecy is to be upheld at last: so long as a daughter of the royal line defends and rules, Skala will never be subjugated.Now a mystical fire has burned away the male body known as Prince Tobin, revealing Princess Tamír, a girl on the verge of womanhood–and a queen ready to cl...

This book is the last in a trilogy. The reader is highly encouraged to get the first two books.Mahti, a hill mage, comes down from the mountains in search of the girl who was once a boy. His form of magic is neither predictable nor easy; we don’t know whether or not to trust his vision or his motivations when we remember that in the first book in this series, it was this kind of magic that bound a pair of newborn twins--so that the girl could grow up in his body, the boy was sacrificed. This was...

Originally posted at FanLit:http://www.fantasyliterature.com/revi...The Oracle’s Queen is the final novel in Lynn Flewelling’s TAMIR TRIAD, an epic story about a queen who has been prophesied to rule the land of Skala. To prevent the emergence of this queen, the king, who usurped the throne by killing his own female family members, has killed all the noble women and girls who could possibly challenge him. He doesn’t know that his own sister’s daughter has been hidden by dark magic and a heinous

This is a satisfying conclusion to the Tamir Triad, though it does suffer from You Know How It Ends. As well written as the battle sequences are and the final showdown between Tami and Corrin, it didn't have as much tension as it might have if it really was a toss up instead of a predestined certainty. What tension there is comes from not knowing who (other than Tamir and Corrin, and possibly Iya and Arconiel) survives the battle or not. Let me tell you, I was worried about Ki! (view spoiler)[Th...

I'm going to miss all the characters.

"Blood," the Oracle whispered again, sounding sad. "Before you and behind you, a river of blood bears you to the west."Can the new, purified Skala be founded on murder and civil war? "Brother and Tobin are the twin darknesses at the heart of the pearl; it's only the luster that matters."The third book starts as the first two did, that is a bit slow. However, after a few chapers (and in particular after a long explanation of Nyrin's past which was not needed, imo) it finds its pace faster than th...

What a great end to a great series! I was wondering how Flewelling would handle the transition of Tobin/Tamir from boy to girl, and I think she did so very skillfully. In fact, I felt as a reader, a lot of my own confusion and eventual understanding of Tobin/Tamir was mirrored in Ki's. The beginning of the book starts off completely chaotic, feeling like you don't really understand at all who Tamir is. But as the story progresses, slowly the issues of gender start to fade into the background as

Overall a pretty great series, however, the final book is the weakest out of the three. The characters, as usual, were written very well, but this occasionally caused the attention to stray away from the main characters and onto the supporting cast. Tamir's angst and forceful feelings towards Ki is probably what made a majority of scenes in the novel painful to read and a relief when a chapter switched to a different character's perspective. Moreover, using Ariani's ghost as a force to push thei...