User blog comment:Jacked Maverick/Why I Finally Decided To Delete Choices/@comment-36744766-20200612063715/@comment-36744766-20200612093559

Now I see where you're coming from. Yes, I also think the ending is not so good. I mean, the Dreadlord is supposed to be the final boss, but he got burned away with a Blade of Light, which also happens to be the Blade of Shadow. Seriously, they could have made the Dreadlord escape the Shadow Realm and lead the entire shadow army on a great invasion of Morella, and we'll be fighting the rest of the Court in Book 2. We'll have to look for the Blade of Light, then we finally vanquish the Dreadlord at the end of Book 2.

But no, they ended the whole Shadow Court plotline just like that. They could have just stuck with this same storyline for the entire series. So now, instead of another TC&TF, I think this is going to be another Elementalists.