"Through perseverance, all things will end." - Charli

I dont think i've ever been this happy for a book to end. I managed to read up to chapter 80 before I had to put it down for a couple of days because I just couldnt bring myself to pick it up again. It was just so incredible boring!!

In short, the book is terrible. Yes, we're all respectful of other peoples likes and reading choices etc. but this is mine and I HATED this! I hated this with such an intense passion, I dont even know how i'm able to string these words together.

Book 2 was a chore, but this managed to surpass that in every way. From the characters (all 12 million of them), the plot (or lack there of), the dialogue (oh so childish) to the stakes (still trying to find them) this book was bland and uninspired.

It might be dramatic but I feel betrayed and abused by that cashgrab at the end of Book 2. Not only did that not amount to anything substantial or exciting, nothing else did either.
Every exciting theory aka actual plot points that she could have taken, amounted to absolutely ZERO! Perhaps one truly exciting thing happened in regard to the crossover and everything that did happen was unnecessary and boring and didnt really give the links we wanted them to.

I LOVED the Throne of Glass references and when you learned that Lidia was Aelin's descendent or from her bloodline etc. it was PERFECT. I wanted the whole book to be like that!

Why did she spend basically only two seconds in Prythian. I understand that this is not an ACOTAR book so i didnt expect to be there for too long but her time spent there felt stupid because of how long Bryce spent not trusting them. There were so many other ways she could have got the information she needed without the holographic history lesson info dump so it just felt very stupid, especially the whole 'setting the worm as a trap thing'. WTF?
im not going to even give airtime to that diatribe of a history lesson that i couldnt explain to you if there was a gun to my head. 

One of the biggest let downs for this was that Bryce actually regressed as a character and by the end of this, I hated her as much as her father did and with good reason. She's a rude, egotistical, sarcastic, ignorant simpleton who has a mighty high opinion of herself considering she spends half her time talking about how unspecial she wants to be.
Her relationship with Hunt is basic, as is he. Anything remotely interesting about him was destroyed once he became a simp for the neon pink sneaker wearing trashy party girl that she really is. There is not depth to her, no special reason she should be the queen of anything but yet...here we are. The whole he was made for her business after teasing us about his father just fell incredibly flat and added nothing to the story. 

Dont even get me started on the lack of smut from these two! If youre not going to entertain with a decent story then atleast give me some filth akin to ACOSF. This outing was fucking childish and i was so disappointed.

Ithan, Tharion, Jesiba and all the other 956,823 other side characters can eat shit and die.
I have no interest in anything to do with them or their little schemes that ultimately amount to nothing.

Ithan becoming Prime, Hypaxia becoming the head of HoFaS, all the big bad villains being taken out as easy as taking out the trash was just tired and uncreative. The constant deux ex machina vibes throughout just made everything boring because we knew that somehow everyone was going to be saved. Where was the devastation? Where was the terror?

Even while having some semblance of care for Lidia,

why was she given kids?

For what fucking purpose did we need more characters added to this? just to have stakes? FAIL! Just kill the other million cast members for some dramatic effect. Have some consequences!

For me, despite going in with very low expectations because of the previous two books, I did expect SJM to bring something out of the park once the crossover was announced. However, it feels like it was shoehorned in to boost sales where CC series was failing comparatively and then she had to make up a reason for Bryce to be there. The book lacked any real cohesion and the neatly wrapped up HEA element that still has plot lines NOT tied up just felt lazy and disrespectful for a writer of her stature and who we have invested a lot of time and money in.

I'm unlikely read any more CC books if there are any but will likely still invest in ACOTAR books simply because i like those characters better. However, if her style is going to continue on this vein of uninspired, uncreative mediocrity, then i'm no longer involved.