I love a good fairy corn interlude. The romance in here was great; it had everything I enjoyed tension, snarky plot, and similar thing of enemies to lovers (though Cassian was never here enemy). About 250 pages in I started to wonder how long it was going to take for some serious action to happen. I hated how Nessa's power was sometimes so powerful until it wasn't at the end. The long drawn-out plot wasn't necessary, about 200 pages could have been cut. The ending was dumb. I hated it. So convenient for the plot yet the bad guys are still out here, yuck.

I would have rather Nessa have kept her powers, that tension for the rest of the series would have been great. I think having a darker character would have been so good for the plot. I hate it when everyone is squeaky clean.