Voyage is my favorite of the series because of two things: dragons and yachts. If I ever find myself in possession of A LOT of money you best believe I am going to buy a very large yacht and just sail around the world with all my books. Alas that is not how my life is destined to turn out but at least I can live vicariously through Ren, Kelsey and Kishan. Our intrepid heroes are out to find Durga’s third gift and give the boys another 6 hours back. A lot happens in this installment of the series, actually before Dream was published last year Voyage was the longest book in the series by about 100 pages. We have to deal with Ren being a complete jerk, Kelsey being dense, Kishan being oblivious, and then of course a Kraken, a mega-shark, dragons and Lokesh.

Even though it is one of the longest books in the series it is the most action packed. With both Quest and Curse there were some definite lulls in the story where not much was happening plot wise. Quest is especially guilty of this as I would say a good 10 to 15% of the novel was Kelsey and Kishan doing mundane things around the house. Voyage on the other hand throws are heroes into it. Maybe its because they have to get a lot more magical creatures in this book then they do in the other two but it makes for a way more interesting read in my opinion. I also loves the inclusion of Asian mythology tied in with the Indian mythology already there.

Lets talk about out intrepid heroes shall we. Let me count the ways that Kelsey annoyed me: SHE IGNORES WHAT HER HEAD AND HER HEART AND LITERALLY EVERYONE AROUND HER SAYS! There are several parts in this story where she has to admit her true feelings for Ren and then she’s just like “nah brah I’m going to stay with Kishan cause he won’t leave me.” Which is not okay! Ladies some life advice if you are with somebody because you are scared of your feelings for someone else and the person your with is just the more “comfortable” choice then you are doing yourself a disservice and you not being fair to them. It is not okay! There are a couple of times during Kelsey’s inner monologue where she tells her self that Kishan isn’t a second choice hes just a different choice but then she’ll follow it up with something along the lines of how in love with Ren she is and that it scares her and I’m always like oh honey, HE’S YOUR SECOND CHOICE! Throughout the story she treats him like he’s her second option and really Kishan is just too dense to realize the it is painfully obvious that she is completely in love with Ren. I think one of the reasons that I love Kishan so much is that he is like a jealous person but he’s also kind of blind at the same time. Like when Kishan is being all lovey dovey on Kelsey and Ren is there to witness Ren wants to tear him apart, but when its reversed Kishan only notices like 50% of the time which is kinda hilarious. Other then Kelsey’s love life being an absolute mess she was kinda bad-ass in this. I mean she tricked not one but 2 dragons into helping her. She also kicks some Kraken and Mega Shark butt. Ren was also relatively annoying here. So for the first 3/5ths of the book we are still dealing with Ren’s memory block and let me tell you hes kind of an ass about it. Like I get it, it is physically painful for him to be around her but dear god he doesn’t have to be such a jerk about it. I think the thing that bothered me the absolute most is when Ren and Kelsey tries to date again and then he cant physically save her so he dumps her in the most asshole way he can pushes her on his brother and then parades the the most annoying women known to man in front of her and then gets his memory back and then expects her to jump right back into his arms. Like bro NO! That is not how this works. To Kelsey’s credit she didn’t jump when he said jump but nor should she have stayed with Kishan. (Although I’m not going to lie I still want Ren and Kelsey together.)

Voyage to me is the best installment of the series. If was going to put them in order from favorite to least favorite it would first. The plot is a lot more enticing and the characters grow more to me. I think the only other thing that I dislike is that Lokesh plays more of a role in this installment then the other two. He was introduced in the first one and kept Ren captive in the second, but he also didn’t really play a part past that. To me he is no that strong of a villain and feels like more of an after thought when it comes to the curse and breaking it. Like he’s hunting them down but hes not really trying to stop them from breaking the curse and he’s not trying to find Durga’s gifts to have the power for himself. His entire world domination plan is a bit vague and he’s not as scary as Houck wants him to be. But overall a great third installment!