Well, this was probably the best book of the series. It's the best book of an overly pretty bad series. I wouldn't recommend the series, even though I did like this book by itself.

Juliette/Ella/Who-the-Heck-Ever and Aaron/Warner/Who-the-Heck-Ever (can you tell I'm salty about renaming the characters in the next to last book?) are a little more believable in this final installment.

Things I Didn't Like:
- pacing: about 20% of the time I had no idea what was going on or why
- plot: about 20% of the time the things that happened still didn't make sense, or there was simply no explanation. Governments at the end? Eh, who cares, I guess? What happened to the Reestablishment? Not important, I guess? But, hey, dresses and puppies, so we should be happy, I suppose.
- Kenji: I knooooow. He was my favorite character all throughout, but he's unnecessarily whiny here.
- Adam: Totally underutilized. Became a caricature of himself.
- Max: Just gross.

Things I Did Like:
- Trauma: It's a real thing and all the characters deal with it, and none of them deal with it very well. I'm glad it wasn't glossed over.
- Sisterly Relationship: It's the only thing that made the ending feel somewhat satisfying.


Overall, I guess this is my favorite series to hate on. I'm not really sure why I read all the books. I think it was because I wanted to make sure the sexual content wasn't TOO much for my students. Jury is still out on that in book 3 or so... Yikes. But this one is pretty calm. Overall, the series was ALL OVER THE PLACE and not in a good way. The writing was in turns wonderful and horrible. It's definitely a unique style. Some people like it. I would like it too, I think, if I thought the plot were any good. But, I have some senior high girls that think Adam and Warner are gods, so, whatever that's worth...
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