The Books of Bayern by Shannon Hale

So I finally got around to finishing The Books of Bayern. I have mixed feelings on whether I liked them or not. The first book, The Goose Girl I did a review on earlier. The next three books are Enna Burning, River Secrets, and Forest Born. I really did not like Enna Burning. Enna was Isi's friend in The Goose Girl. In this book she learns fire-speaking and struggles to learn how to harness this power without killing herself or others. I personally just don't like Enna and her personality. She's very selfish and a little too pushy and arrogant. In River Secrets you follow Razo, another boy from The Goose Girl. He and Enna travel to Tiran, the country that attacked Bayern, in order to try to make peace and start trading with them. Razo meets Dasha who can control water. I actually enjoyed reading this book since it had more suspense and danger to it. Someone is burning bodies and leaving them by the Bayern representatives trying to blame them for the burnings and start war again. It actually took me a while to figure out who the fire-burner was. Forest Born was a very slow moving story that follows Razo's sister Rin. She is struggling to find herself and handle her ability to tree-speak and people-speak. She, along with Isi, Enna, and Dasha set out to find a fire burner who is attacking settlements. It was definately a surprise to see who was behind everything throughout all the books. I must admit that you need to read all these books because if you space them out too much like I did you don't remember half the people that show up in the books. Anyway, you'll have to decide how much you like these. I'm not going to say this is a definant read that everyone would enjoy because it's not, but there are some like my in-laws that really enjoyed them and wanted me to read them.