Book Report - Binding Words series book 11 by Daniel Schinhofen

Originally Published: Jan. 26, 2024, 1:31 a.m. Last updated: Jan. 26, 2024, 1:31 a.m.

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I've fallen behind on these. My reading slowed down, but not as much as the lack of blogs would lead you to think.

Happily enough, only a few days after the last blog entry, Schinhofen released the next and last book of Binding Words, finishing out Sean's saga. It's been over a month since I finished it, so I'm sorry that this'll be a bit weak on the details.

TL;DR: Sean is a prophesied Harbinger that is meant to bring the Hunter back to the Summer Queen and Winter Queen. This book is full of payoffs and wrapped up story threads, some of which were handled better than others. We meet and appease the Queens, we fight Thor again, we meet Sean's best friend James that we've been hearing about since book 1. We figure out where Sean and his harem/pantheon fit into the universe, we finish up this prophecy, we get some behind the scenes of why things happened the way they happened. I can make a small complaint that so many different payoffs all in one book made things feel a bit rushed, but other than that it was overall an wonderful and incredibly satisfying finale.

I have a small complaint that we did a lot of multiverse-type worldbuilding in this book and now there's nowhere to go with it. After I finished the book, I spent days speculating and fantasizing, which is something I absolutely love experiencing. If you know the Timmy-Johnny-Spike psychographic concept from MtG, I lean hard into Johnny, so any kind of story that gets my gears spinning like that is A+. The complaint is that without further exploration in the canon, I'm left unsatisfied because I have no way to tell if my ideas aligned with Schinhofen's. Regardless, I appreciate the overall concept and plan to make use of these ideas if I ever get around to writing stories of my own.

I'm going to try getting back into these blogs, so it'll take me a few entries to get the flow of it again. This is all I have for this one. Looking forward to the next Aether book in the next month or so.