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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeric" data-source="post: 1710051" data-attributes="member: 17012">Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams is one of my all-time favorite fantasy trilogies, but the end of the story completely ruined it for me.  I was really looking forward to seeing how they would resolve the relationship between Simon and the princess, since they came from different social classes and therefore were forbidden to marry.  This was a source of so much dramatic angst over the course of the story, so I figured that the resolution had to be something fantastic.In one of the last chapters of the third book (maybe even the last chapter, it's been a while), Simon wanders into the Hall of Kings where, lo and behold, he spies a statue that looks...just like him!  Turns out that the orphan Simon is a descendant of some king, and therefore marriage material for the princess.  Talk about contrived!  It totally felt as if the author was stuck for a resolution to this plot thread and, with deadline coming up, took the cheap and easy way out.  If it wasn't the end of the trilogy anyways, I would have put the book down and never picked it up again.  I felt ripped off.He made up for it in War of the Flowers, though.  I really liked that book, especially the ending.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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