User blog comment:SSWerty/The Swetty reviews/@comment-3122168-20110325070633/@comment-1668079-20110325071049

It's not that I would have done it differently, and it wouldn't have made sense without it, certainly, but I get the same feeling I had when I finished the Bartimaeus books. I was so attached to the main character that I didn't want him to go, even though I knew he must.
 * The ending. I know it was for the story, and too cliched it would be to have Tien return to Earth unscathed, but I dislike the finale. Much like I did the Bartimaeus Trilogy's.

Both, really.
 * How does Tien know about his birth while watching his dad die?