Well that was just a super satisfying conclusion. I always get nervous going into last books, and sometimes put them off for a silly-long time, because I just worry that the ending will be bad and that’ll ruin the whole rest of the series for me. (Does anyone else do that...maybe…just me? Haha.) In any case, there was none of that here. It was the perfect sort of wrap it all up more or less in a neat package ending that I was hoping for the story…since this wasn’t necessarily a groundbreakingly original storyline to date, I was really hoping that the author wouldn’t try to do anything like that to end it. But no – we got the end of the bad guys and the “restart” for the future that I wanted as a reader, and that the story was building to. I mean, of course, there were some deaths and twists that hurt to read, which kept things interesting and not too neat, but nothing that prevented me from letting out a nice big satisfied sigh when I turned the last page.

I definitely was happy with how Daemon and Katy’s story ended (and I can’t lie, I enjoyed the possible excess of mushiness between them in this book just as much as I did in the last one)…and the conclusions for our primary supporting characters, like Dawson and Beth, Archer, Dee, Luc were all equally satisfying. And seeing how Deadalus (and Nancy herself), along with the invading Luxen, are finished…it’s what I wanted there too (more or less). There are some realistically open endings that don’t get too perfectly tied as well, particularly regarding the Arum, and that was nice too. Overall, the couple new characters we get to meet and the final interactions with our longtime protagonists that we’ve gotten close to over the 5 books are all exactly what I wanted.

I needed something a little drama-filled paranormal romance and this series is perfectly that. Like I said, nothing groundbreaking, but there is definitely a reason these story lines become tropes (there will likely never come a day when a really attractive, protective, but ultimately totally smitten that he’ll pretty much allow anything she asks for, love interest will not get me excited). It’s not always what I’m looking for in a book, but when it is, nothing else hits the spot.