This review could go both ways.
It could just have easily been a four star review (one extra star for Declan Lynch, one extra star for making me cry) but let's be honest.
This book was, well, a bit of a mess.
The characters felt foreign when, after four books, they should feel as familiar to me as anything, some plot lines were incomprehensible at best coughblueishalftreecough and it was boring and exhausting to see everyone reduced to caricatures about themselves.
Also: Noah.
Also2: The Raven Boys
I explain the last bit. One of my favorite things about the raven boys was their friendship, the tight knit group of love and friendship and found family of it and that was. well. missing in this book
I'm not talking about the ending, about Adam and BlueandGanseyandHenry and Ronan and Noah im talking about the rest of the book
They were fragmented they were estranged they were not a unit anymore
and henry cheng was. very likeable because gansey had Such A Crush but still so. out of the blue? wHy?
And WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT ENDING?
like. how was everyone okay with cabeswater building them a fake (?) gansey?
that's what happened right because other than impossible it was also confounding as fuck
anyway
i could rant more but my sister is calling for me and let's be honest
i've already wasted too much time on this

PS. Orla Only Likes Sex will never not bother me
PPS. I don't know how I would feel if I didn't already hate Maggie because of her online presence
PPPS. It just feels like she got bored of her own characters halfway