2.75/5 for me.

I really liked this trilogy. I think is hard to end a story, even more one that you've been writing for three books. I have to admit that I loved 2/3 of this book, even though sometimes it felt a little slow, and the last part made me feel really sad, both for breaking my heart because my babies but also because I was a tad conflicted by the controversy about a certain trope that is common in LGBTQ+ books.

Honestly, I loved the representation on this trilogy (though the ending has that glaring issue). Now, onto the elephant in the room:

It broke my heart when Gabriel died. I felt that the way it was narrated his death was heartbreaking and we all were in Nathan's shoes during those dreading parragraphs. And the prolonged suffering of Nathan the last chapters were really terrible, to the point that I felt kind of relieved when he changed to a tree.

However, I can totally understand why people are so angry about it. Why Gabriel had to die? Why Nathan wasn't "allowed" to recover from his death? Why the LGBTQ+ MC's had to suffer so much? I understand that and I can share that sentiment. And what it saddens me the most is that the recurring trope kind of overshadowed all the other reasons why Nathan could not heal as we all expected. He had a shitty life, he dealt with some serious shit very early on and for so many years, that without proper therapy and many years of healing, it would be hard to believe that he recover. I can totally see him acting as he did in the ending and that's why I'm not taking more stars than I am already. But is kind of a bum to feel like all our investment in this story finished so rushly and so sadly; I'm not against sad or bittersweet endings, I feel with trilogies like this is quite understandable, but the climatic moment felt rushed and I didn't feel like it was a proper pay off for all the previous building and a heartbreaking ending.

In the end, I think that it was an okayish ending, but the other two books were way better.