Honestly, I'm not quite sure why I finished this because it made me uncomfortable, unless it was because (a) I feel bad rating and reviewing [in detail] books I don't finish, and (b) I had finally climbed out of a DNF pit and didn't want to fall back in.

The hypersexualization of teenagers is an ongoing and pervasive issue, even setting aside the potentially problematic implications of

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dubious consent due to paranormal powers and it's totally fine if they're in love and they get married!

— an ironic juxtaposition to the Biblical worldbuilding and binary morality. Not that I'm saying teenagers can't or shouldn't have sex. But it feels squicky for adults to be writing and reading about it with any level of detail. (I'm aware that this makes me a hypocrite; I'm not claiming otherwise.) To make things worse, the narration features tropes and cliches from Adult/New Adult romance which really shouldn't be applied to YA-aged characters. (I'm tagging this as NA because the main pairing eventually makes that crossover, and because the prose and atmosphere resemble the genre. However, explicit themes are present from the beginning, and for at least half the story one or both of them are underage.) Plus it's all very cisheteronormative, featuring underlying ace erasure.

While the general narrative arc of the trilogy is preserved, a lot of developments lose their impact because it's so stream-of-consciousness, telling-instead-of-showing, abrupt jump cuts between scenes. An alternate-POV version has the potential to be engaging in its own right, but in this case I didn't feel that it added much: just angst and sexy times.