Ah yes, the final book in "What if the elements determined your flavor of neurodivergence?" series. This time, it's autism I mean wood.
Not that I don't still remember my frustration with Odelia from last time, but like, the main message of this book was, well, the GEmara? A person should be supple like a reed and not break like a cedar?

It feels like Shinn really knew what she was doing with Coru and Sweela and didn't entirely know how to let the other characters grow into more of their elements rather than less of them. Also, while I do usually find Autism/ADHD to be a good pairing, Valentina and Sebastian never really worked for me as characters who were narratively assigned to be in love.

I like Shinn but this series is sometimes a cautionary tale in planning a fivefold book when you only really know what you want to do with some of them. (Good job, Bujold, on pivoting back to the Fifth God when she realized that was where her interest was.