Tried to read it 3 times; this time is the last
582296
I really tried. Honestly I did. Over the past few years, I've picked this booked up and re-started it with about a year between each read. I keep thinking it'll get better, but it just doesn't. I really could use a visible outline to keep track of all the characters in this book and whether or not they are integral to the plot. Also, the author seems to go out of his way to make the female characters more prominent than the male. This is not a sexist statement, it just seems as if he goes out of his way to present it in that manner. Perhaps it is a way to show that in the future women can be completely equal in status, pay, etc. as men are today. Granted, I have a difficult time following movies with complex plot lines and fast moving events like Mission Impossible, but this book became my "mission impossible" to actually finish the book. With the third read I made it to page 225 in the paperback release.

Spoiler alert to follow but will stave off disappointment if you read this book!

Reading other reviews and learning that the origin of the clouds and their purpose is never revealed just gives me all the more reason to recycle the book. I'm sure this will be a good read for someone else, it just didn't do much for me.
1400859
I have been disappointed in the last two books...it seems it is the "same book next year" and she is depending on her past success carrying the books. I feel like I am reading a conversation between 15 year olds with no character development. I kept reading, but stopped about half way through. If it has not happened by then, it is too late. Last one for me.
4069309
What hurts so much is that this piece of heaven, The Driven Trilogy, has ended after all. It really sucks because it would be so hard to find something as good to read among the hundreds of meaningless novels. Don't waste your time, just get the three books and start your vacation...
3626696
Which means I can't really say I liked it. I read all three and the first two I would rate between 3 and 4. But this last one almost plunged me into depression as the drawn out end went on and on. But I must have liked it some since I finished it. But only then did I realize how it had cast a shadow over my whole life. But that's just me.
964444
I've finally finished book three! And I'm sorry to say I had to read and re-read many sentences to figure out what the author was trying to say.
926514
very disappointing...
Just how many times in a book do you really need to write that she/he can't Live without him/her?
I broke after like 20 occurrences.
2240441
<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/A-Feast-for-Crows/dp/0606267263/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">A Feast for Crows</a>The first volume was great. I even splurged on the Blue Ray Disks. The second and third were o.k. This last one is almost painful to read. There are soooo many characters, who can keep them straight? And the ones I care about are barely mentioned (that is the ones not hanged, gored, beheaded or thrown out of windows). I will finish the book and most likely read the fifth volume in hopes that something will be resolved, and that I won't have to construct a family tree for the Lannisters, Tyrells, Starks, Baratheons, Freyes, and so on and so on.....
4222349
Hated it. This book picked up where the other 2 left off. Unfortunately I couldn't make it past the 3rd chapter. It was so boring or else my tastes in books has had a drastic change.  I put the book in the archives on my Kindle and I may try to read it again someday. Probably not though because there are so many better books out there for me to read.
1880131
I tried reading this for an entire year and  I had no desire to even pick it up. I think it's time to just DNF it and move on. Maybe I'll pick it up again, maybe not.
3321306
Having been a long time fan of Fantasy, when I read the first book in this series I really liked it.
But by book 4, I am struggling, having to force myself to read it.  It is becoming obvious that she needs to find some new adjectives when describing any action that happens.  She has no understanding of combat.  (Not that i do; but I know you can't stab a guy in the throat while laying down).  She re-uses the same back story for multiple characters.  (Thor and Steffen are great examples of that).  Aside from the fact that every time there is some fight involved, the main story characters always seem to hit their targets in the throat or that one tiny little spot where armor would not protect.  They where the exact same style, and can survive "jousting" through 200 "bad guys" with just a few scratches.

Aside from that, the fact that at least on a couple of occasions she has used the wrong character name (from one paragraph to next), has a bad sense of word usage, has nobody proof reading (Very obvious); and it just seems that she does not know how to end this story.  I have read in some review that these is supposed to be one other book, and it is supposed to be the end.  As this is book 16; I don't know if I can get this far.
3466841
I couldn't stop reading the first two books but I stopped reading this one. Weeks later, I jumped to the last pages, and I'm grateful I skipped the awful part.
2355102
i have read alot of the book more than 2 times, but nothing i can use it for right now.
3608047
I bought all three boxed sets of His Brother's Mate but I have to say I won't be reading box set 2 and 3.  I am struggling to get through this one and it's a battle I am loosing.

The author has a great idea unfortunately she has gotten hung up in the trap of unending repetition of the one before.  Everyone of the mates does want to be a mate and while the first books under this series I read were funny and whimsical after a bit that isn't enough to carry the series any longer.  Everyone of them is either an exotic wolf mate of a witch that the wolves don't like but are mates to.  It just has nothing original after the first couple of books.  It leaves struggling to finish the first boxed set and I can't imagine going on to the sets 2 and 3.  I archived them and I am into the second one in this boxed and am giving up.
814902
Minor spoiler ahead **
I loved the first 2 books and read then in a week. The idea of an university geek discovering a great event and going with him till becoming and taking his place as a world leader was wonderful. Getting to now the strange aliens and starting to love then was awesome and delightful.

But reading this last book was extremely frustrating. The 2 aliens we learned to love in the previous books, simply vanished. Just minor references. The main character is discarded without much details to never comeback!!  How can this be possible? And the author does it with another 2 or 3 main characters. Did he tried to mimic George R R Martin? But there the deaths at least had some meaning in the context. Here is totally nonsense.

Many chapters are wasted in political discussions without any relevance to the main story arch. Meanwhile the story that matters is left behind and you reach the end of book with a bitter taste.
Very sad end for a great promise.
4500756
Ugh.  Great tale in desperate need of another try.  List of failings too long.
545370
There is no point in leaving this page up, unless it is to be used as a deterrent in bothering to read the first two books of the trilogy. After sixteen years of having readers beg for this series to be finished, I hold no hope that it will be completed. Ms. Rawn either doesn't have the creative tools to finish it or just chooses not to complete it. Either way it is a good way to lose a fan base.
769339
This is a total waste of time.  I took all three books out of the library, thinking them a trilogy.  No chance. This could go on for 14 more books.

Simply said, in the third book, the first sentence of the prologue and the last sentence of the book are the same.  In other words, the reader is back where the book starts... wherever that is.

Now I have a new policy.  Read the reviews, First