" Well, I finished it, and I held out hope until end. I thought with the emergence of the Wyrm King this series might save itself and pull out of the nose dive. Alas, twas not the case. The series ends the way it began with a weak plot line and weaker character development. There was opportunity in the final climatic moments for it to at least provide a thrilling mental picture battle, but it falls just short. There's a half hearted attempt in the poem at the end to pull some moral message out of the story, but it really doesn't click, and the attempt there to make it a good verse evil battle is too little too late, we've seen Mulgarath, we know what evil is and neither the giants or the Wyrm King provide that kind of character. So there is no good vs. evil, there is no personal responsibility or development, there is no intense fantasy action, in short there just isn't much here, even the magical characters don't hold the same charm they did in the original five books. In fact, I really wish they didn't try and tie this on as the closing of the Spiderwick chronicles, because really the first series did everything the second didn't and it would be to its advantage to not be associated with these books at all. "
— Ben, 1/14/2014