This was for me the best book out of the three. And mostly it's always the first, but not now. I'm glad that I kept reading so that I got to read this one, as it was the one to keep me in tense and mysterious times. If I didn't have exams, I would have finished this faster — something that couldn't be said of the second one. At some point I even had to stop myself from reading it because I had to sleep xD So, overall this book was good. Better. And the end was not something that I didn't like; it was a nice wrap up. I'm glad I finally have finished the trilogy, after so many years having it on my shelves. Though, if it got me from the first book right away, I don't think it took me like 6 months to finish a trilogy.