i am disappointed by and with this book.

i absolutely loved autumn and enjoyed winter and spring well enough but hoped that this last book wrapped it all up and bound it together in a way that made the entire quartet a great one.

sadly that did not happen at all for me.

this book feels rushed and under developed to me.
it tried to squeeze too many of the many events that happened in 2020 into too few pages and with that just made it all a mess.

i think this book would have been better if it wouldn’t have tried to be too current.

i am not sure how much of the book smith rewrote or changed but to me the first and the last part read very differently especially compared to the second part.
but all of it doesn’t really work fluently together in my option.

i also didn’t enjoy the writing in this, since it felt too distorted. which is actually a problem i always had with smiths books before but didn’t feel in the first of this quartet but is overly present in this one.


all in all?
disappointing and i kind of wish the publishing date would have been pushed even further back or the book should have been published as planed last year and not include 2020.

i didn’t enjoy this a lot and i actually understand why so many people think it’s not what i could have been and should have been.