It took me a while to actually get around to reading this, in comparison to the time it took between reading Born Wicked and Star Cursed. I couldn't get it at first, because I need to use the Amazon UK (there's no Irish Amazon sadface) and I had to wait till it was available and it obviously wasn't in the library like the other two cause it was just after being published.

Anywho, I think Star Cursed ended on an EXCELLENT cliff-hanger. What the hell was going to happen between Cate and Maura? Maura had literally broken her sister's heart on purpose. And when it comes to Maura, I don't believe the whole "It's safer for him, and you." She ain't doing nothing in the good interests of Cate. One of the best and steady things in this trilogy has been Maura's character, she was never a character easily liked and she was easy to dislike. She never did anything extraordinarily bad in the first two, but there was something about her, you just knew she was capable..which she then proved by removing Finn's memory.

I always knew that Maura would be the one to die, however I was surprised that Tell allowed herself to get mind-controlled but more on Tess later. I was expecting Cate to have to use her healing powers to kill Maura but surprisingly she didn't which is maybe just as well. I know it's natural for them all to remember Maura as cheerful and rambunctious, but I think we need to remember that she still allowed some bad things to happen, despite redeeming herself all of a sudden. Plus, hello, she told Inez about Tess. Never okay

I almost expected there to be a love triangle when Cate met Alaistair Merriweather and for this trilogy to follow in the awful footsteps of so many before so I can say I'm really glad it didn't. Finn and Cate's romance was always super cute and strong, and I'm so glad they slowly started to fall back in love. It shows they were meant to be. Sigh.

The ending of the book was unexpected, in that there wasn't an overall change but a more realistic one in the Brothers who felt what they had been doing was wrong finally stood up for the innocent. Great to see the bullies get their comeuppance.

While this wasn't my favourite of the Cahill Witch Chronicles overall, it was still pretty damn good and despite everything, kept me guessing. So it got my rare five stars.