These characters. They are just so comfortable and easy to slip back into. I had to wait a couple months to get my hands on this book after finishing the third one (library wait lists...), but by the second chapter I felt like I was back with old friends that I fit together with seamlessly, despite years between seeing each other. Henry was a really fun addition - and his piece of the threesome with Gansey and Blue was the perfect way to finish their story, giving him his "something more" and allowing the G/B relationship to not wrap up in a typical way (which would have been disingenuous to their characters). Adam and Ronan - I mean I don't even have words for how they made my heart soar... And Ronan's ability to find himself, who he is, own it, and move forwards - the most impressive coming of age in this wrap up. Which, truly, is followed only marginally by Adam's. So their connection, through Cabeswater and elsewhere, is entirely perfect. The openness of the rest of the "ends" the many women of Fox Way (especially Gwenllian), Artemis, the Grey Man, the rest of the "artifacts" dealers really worked for me here. I sometimes hate that lack of conclusion, but this story has been something different from the beginning, it's weirdness and (almost) aloofness, the ephemeral qualities of Cabeswater, of the telling in general, made it the right fit, the only way to do it. Where Noah's stories ends, or loops back to (if you will), was nicely done as well. The fact that Glendower was not actually alive, that the quest was Noah's creation...it was a bit of a letdown when I actually read it, because it was 4 books building up to the discovery of a long dead king. But that it allowed for these character's to meet, that they would not have come together without him, was a realization that made it ok, in the end. And Gansey's "remaking" by Cabeswater, at the end of all the unmaking done by the demon that he died to stop, was very symmetrical. Not a surprise that the author didn't let him stay dead. It would have been so hard - would have changed the trajectory of the rest of them, Gansey's court of magicians, too much to make it ok. This was such a fulfilling tale with such strong characters whose voices I am so happy to have heard.