I laughed out loud at some points. Even for commercial fiction and measuring it against the other instalments of the series, it is always incredible just how not well handled every aspect of this book is. It’s wildly melodramatic, the romantic interests act like, and have similar dialogue to, high schoolers. Including the we can’t communicate properly trope. The twists are predictable, the setup massively contrived and only becomes more so. I assume it’s going for a movie bombastic finale type vibe… but it just falls far too flat. As soon as the teen in the first instalment left the series the characters lose their suspension of disbelief around how they speak to one another. It is wild how bad this was. All I wanted was brain candy, but couldn’t even get that.