Additionally blood Sipstrassi inspire darker feelings such as lust, greed, and rage in their wielders.

Beginning right after the previous novel's conclusion, The Last Guardian starts with Jon Shannow near death on a mountain.

Beth McAdam, a resourceful recent widow, and mother of two young children migrating across the lorn bandit filled deserts seeking a new home.

A second was a negative review by a critic named Broome containing the line, "I dread to think of people who look up to men like Jon Shannow".

Similarly the website Fantasy books review gave it a rating of 8.5 out of 10[4] with the comment "even better than Wolf in Shadow".