4th Book of the Year

 A Joust of Knights by Morgan Rice. 

Spoiler Version. 

This series is so redundant. Every few chapters Thor looks to his Legion brothers and realizes they are true brothers. He has been having this realization for 16 books, you would think he would know that by now. Oh, and every army they face is a professional army. And they all assess that with their professional warrior's eye. I wish this series was this horrible from the jump so that I wouldn't have had to listen to the entire thing, because spite and rage are the only things keeping me going at this point. Thankfully, there is only one book left in this horrible series. Gwen has been asked by the King of the Ridge to be the leader if something happens to his children and they all die. Gwen has made friends with his youngest daughter, who can read at super speed, and remember all of it. Kendrick and bros went out with some of the knights of the Ridge to cover their tracks, one of them Nate, hates Kendrick, even after Kendrick saves his life. The kings youngest son goes with them and gets captured during his patrol. Thor and co. catch up to the gargoyles, but aren't fast enough, and the baby dragon can't cross the waterfall of blood to enter the land of blood, so he has to go on the ship. They arrive on the straight of madness and everyone, surprise surprise, goes mad. O'Conner (O'Connell, whatever his name is, the archer) jumps into the water and dies. Thor tries to kill himself but the sword of the dead instead kills Reese, right as they near the end of the madness. So, with one book left, it's time to start killing off characters. Darius is in the capitol arena and of course, he is the only one who survives and just before he's about to get killed his trainer saves him because Darius is is son. So obvious. Godfrey is hiding in a bunker. Eric is going to save a city of slaves instead of sailing for the first Empire city Gwen landed in. Alistair finally told Eric that she's pregnant. Argan woke up and he told Gwen that Thor and Gwaine are lost to her as she has known them, so obviously they will all be reunited in the last book, but Thor will be greatly changes since he killed his best friend and her brother. I hate this book. I hate this series. I can't wait for it to be over and to never read another Morgan Rice book again.