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Winter by Marissa Meyer
4.0

Yup. That was everything I wanted in the wrap up to this creative, fun series. Adventure, drama, and happy endings for all our fairy tale couples. I enjoyed every second reading these books. Although literarily there wasn't anything particularly transcendent, they were written cleanly, without stilting of dialogue or overly typecast characters. I mean, each story was a bit bound by the original fairy tale it followed, but within that structure the author did enough to make them original to the point that it wasn't a chore to read through, knowing that we already know the ending. I think there were a few pieces used too conveniently throughout the novel, like the medical advancements allowing all characters to always recover from their injuries, however, I do respect that with that as a crutch, the author was not afraid to cause permanent damage, like lost fingers and everything done to Wolf, etc. Also, Winter and Jacin was a great "Snow White" story to end with and perhaps their relationship was my favorite of them all - there was something so sad about their whole history, a sadness that permeates what they have in the present, but they stayed together in any way they could throughout it all.... However, Thorne and Cress were a very very close second - a much more upbeat relationship. And the end that Levana comes to is believable, but still gives the wrap up everyone wants. For all my procrastinating on starting this series, I have really liked reading it!