Ah the end, so bittersweet.

After binge reading the entire series in a few days, I was both ready and not so ready to finally finish this book. I entered into it with a lot of feelings - excitement, sadness, trepidation and fear. I was so scared of flipping forward a few pages by accident and getting majorly spoiled and also of reading on as normal and the terrible thing we all know is going to happen, happen.

For the most part of this book I was absolutely enthralled. I was totally sucked in and I was really ready to see how everything turned out. Maggie has just such a wonderful way of writing that as the story twists and turns, you feel twisted and turned with it and as some bad things started happening to my favorite characters, I almost felt their pain and despair myself. I was a bit sad about Noah becoming more or less a non-entity in this one (and in Blue Lily, Lily Blue). Because of obvious reasons he's not around that much, but I did miss his puppy dog-type behavior and I didn't like Bad Noah at all. There was definitely a sense of peace near the end and I was relieved for him.

But okay, can we talk about RONAN AND ADAM KISSING CAUSE OMG I SQUEALED SO LOUD. I'm such a fangirl for these two in a way I haven't been for characters in a long time. Everything about them together just kills and brings me life at the same time. I love the subtleness of their body movements - they aren't obvious at all but we all know. AH LOVE LOVE LOVE.

I was really happy with Adam's progress in this book. I really felt he grew in this book, as he did in Blue Lily, Lily Blue as well. As I said previously he had really irritated me in the first two books but I managed to like him again in the last two books. I loved his growth in himself, his powers, with Ronan and with his own family.It was a real joy to read and I felt really proud of him!

For the ending of The Raven King, I will admit I was expecting more...of something. It felt a little bit anti-climatic to be honest for me, and I wasn't a complete raving mess at the end of it in the way I had expected it to be. I did enjoy it though for the most part and loved my reread of the other books too - a good experience all round.