As reviews start to come in, I'm mindful of the difference, for reviewers who have come to The Shareg having read the earlier books, and those who have not. I'm relieved to read that The Shareg can stand alone. But I'm also keenly aware that readers will get the most out of it by reading the first books beforehand. Having said that, the first two books are slower-paced tales of personal transformation. The Shareg is a faster-paced novel about mature individuals who face an external threat. So - horses for courses, and readers for books - if a slow-paced book isn't your thing - jump in straight with The Shareg. AGR

The story is a grounded one. The idea that the strongest warriors are not those who wield a sword, but who are willing to take great risks for justice and truth, dominates. Attention is devoted to the villagers’ spiritual, moral, and emotional decisions and habits. Their personal concerns feed into a fitting, bittersweet conclusion that is overlaid with a sense of fatedness.
A series-concluding, contemplative historical novel, The Shareg is about a man elevated to a leadership position who seeks to balance tradition, tolerance, and progress in his adopted community.
Eileen Gonzales for Foreword Reviews

The book explores how uniting civil and religious power inevitably leads to forms of tyranny, something we have seen too much of in our own world. This leads to a gripping confrontation involving not only Dhion, but the island’s chiefs, the sharegs, whose authority the Archpriest has attempted to overthrow. We follow the different characters in a number of intertwining sub-plots which resolve in a surprise ending that also seems inevitable, drawing full circle to the beginning of the first volume and setting the seal on the trilogy as a whole.
Notwithstanding the drama, a sense of peace inhabits this trilogy; a hope that providence will make things good in the long term, even for those who suffer and die.
Daniel Morphy OSB for Pluscarden Benedictines

The Shareg, the eagerly anticipated third book in the Isle Fincara Trilogy, returns the reader to the remote island communities of Caerpadraig and Fisherhame and the medieval, mystical world of its particular form of Celtic Christianity.
In The Shareg Rivett has skilfully crafted an epic tale for modern times. A multi-layered book that may be likened to a rich and beautiful medieval tapestry. The conclusion draws together all threads into a seamless and heart-warming whole.
Benedict Thwaite, Reader review

The Shareg is a story in the best tradition of storytelling. It has pace, tension and a satisfying denouement, while never abandoning the steady heartbeat of the small community at its centre. Most importantly, the final novel succeeds in drawing together the strands of the trilogy while remaining faithful to the distinctive atmosphere that has made the world of Fincara so compelling.
Krystyna Kryewska, Reader review