Ok. I'll get right into it. I HATED this book. Most of it anyway.

I was very much looking forward to this book after reading Pandamonium and I was so DISAPPOINTED.

This book was extremely slow, and instead of picking up right where the other book left off it was set at this random time afterwards?? I don't even know.
More than half the book is just lots of talking and random bits of conflict thrown in. Lena's whole jealousy thing about Alex was just ???? She was leading Julian on the whole time and it seemed all of her character development from Pandamonium disappeared and we were left with prissy jealous Lena.

Also, this is super random but the whole travelling aspect of this novel - now I'm not from America and don't know too much about the countries geographical layout but I know where Portland and New York are - or where I THOUGHT Portland was. That's when I did some research and found out that there were TWO Portland's in America - one in Oregon and one in Maine. And the whole time I was thinking that the book was referring to Portland OREGON and I was like "how the heck are they travelling from the East Coast to the West Coast so quickly like it's nothing????".
Now I don't know if I'm just an idiot or it was said in previous books or because I'm not America but I felt this should've been a little clearer. That's just me. It didn't impact my reading experience, but an anecdote of my confusion.

I was impartial to the whole Lena and Hana chapter concept. If you've read my other review of Pandamonium, you'll know that I'm not a massive fan of alternate chapters like this, and once again, I was more interested in Lena's chapters than I was with Hana's. I honestly didn't really care them that much until the later chapters

With the whole Cassie thing and Fred being an actual a$$hole.

. Sue me.

And the ENDING. Now, don't give me sh!t about how "you don't like the ending because you don't understand that it's about how it's life and you don't know what happens!!1!1!" that's a load of crap as far as I'm concerned. Sure, that's life, but like, they were RIGHT in the MIDDLE of the climax of the book? Why would you end it there? Like what happened to that bomb in Fred Hargrove's house? Did it go off? Did he die? What about Pippa and Tack and Lena's mother? What happened to them after the uprising? And Julian? What happened to him after the uprising? How did Lena explain her feelings to him? And Lena and Alex??? Like there was zero closure.
The whole point of a narrative is to have a beginning, middle and an end. And this book didn't give us that. It seemed unfinished and made me wonder if I was somehow missing pages of the book. Like if you want to end it like that, then fine but I think even just an epilogue set a few months after everything would've sufficed.

So that's my review. In summary, it was slow and uninteresting and a really disappointing end to a trilogy that I enjoyed.