I always get back to these books and it's like "oh, right, the weird fourth wall breaking thing, here that is again."
Which, of course, in the third book is itself lampshaded and it's not at all the point of the book.
I quite appreciated how handily Goss refocused the story to make this a book about women and dispensed with the extremely annoying dudes of 19th century literature and also I feel like we've met basically everyone in the who's who by now.
The books ended well and also I feel like this is the right number of them to have written about these characters.