okay conclusion but overall too long and trying to hard to make it seem as if all those pages are actually necessary. 

there were too many POV switches -what was that constant back and forth between how many characters 4?5? in the first part?- and not enough actual plot happenings to satisfy the over 500 pages build (if it wasn’t closer to a 650+ pages build up) 


the crossover? completely unnecessary and to me felt like a money grab if having readers need to read both series to understand the hate going on and i am guessing will need to have read this series to continue on with the next book in the Court of… series that i would guess has at least a few scenes that weren’t really  shown in this book in the next one. 

but this entire book and its plot could have happened as it did without the crossover. no need for it at all! 


positive: at least the sex scene were kept to a minimum in this one and so that was nice especially since it didn’t fit in the last few books of hers but it really would have been bad to have a sex scene every other page with what’s going on here. 


the ending wasn’t bad -but the book was too long.


there really is no need for Maas’ books to be longer than 400-600 pages and a real editor should just go through those 800+ page suckers and work a bit and strike out what’s unnecessary and make those books more enjoyable to read by just taking out the at least 200 pages of unnecessary talking or running around or sex moments. 


it would have been nice to get some actual real explanations with this book too. how it all really worked and were the magic comes from, how the world travel works and if all those bad <spoiler parasites guys are actually dealt with if they are just waiting for the next door to open to come back and try again?  


overall was this book a worthy finish? 
eh 🤷‍♀️

it wasn’t a a bad book but it stretched too much and tried to be cleverer than it was and it basically did was every Mass book did all over again. 


i honestly wish this entire cresent city series would have just been the first book as a standalone. 
that would have given that book a lot more power and ground to stand on because the second and now this third book just dragged that slow build up action packed page turner of a first book down. 


i would recommend it for hard core fans. 

for everyone else? 
decide for yourself if you want to read a pretty typical Maas plot. 

but you certainly can’t read this book and really understand parts of it without reading all 5 court of series books before.