ok, so this Did Not Need To Be So Long. this books is...

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give or take twice the lenghts of the other books in this series, and it was genuinely not necessary.

i mean, the ending was rushed af, and, as much as i do seriously like mac as a main character, the girl did go on and on unecessarily about things, always waxing poetic. i also missed more journal entries in this book, that was a neat format.

i also.........

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really disliked v'lane just being the big bad, outta nowhere, it didn't feel as fleshed out, it didn't feel that mackayla reacted accordingly to that betrayal, honestly, he just got 10x more interesting for being the fourth unseelie prince and i wanted MORE

that being said, man, one of my favorite likes in the entire book was when he went

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“Accept me or kill me, MacKayla. But choose. Just fcnkg choose.”

. Is that a spoiler? better safe than sorry.

despite skimming a buncha bits and then feeling a bit frustrated with the big show down, this was a very entertaining series, i just wish i was more enamored with jericho fucking barrons? so many goodreads i follow are obsessed with him that i guess i just expected more, i wanted him to feel more fleshed out, i wanted to know more about his personality quirks and less about his massive shlong. lol.

3.5 stars, prolly won't reread it, will recommend it to anyone looking for a good, juicy fantasy series to make them feel alive every now and again.