Once again, this was a nice enough story to listen to, but I was definitely less gripped by it than the others in the series. 

And once again, the ending was really rushed, and the last 25% or so felt really disjointed. One of the main components of this is that there’s basically no reflection on the events at the end of the book. The scene in the cavern went by so quickly there was no time for me to properly register the events and their ramifications, and then there was no reflection after the fact, so none of it felt real or impactful in any way. 

And finally, once again, Stiefvater’s portrayal of English characters remains ridiculously inaccurate. For one, not a single English person is still calling America ‘the colonies’ – we don’t CARE enough about America to even think of them in that way. And for two, we don’t count distance in fucking KILOMETERS.