So, I got the impression that there was legitimate reasons why so many people rave about this series as a whole and love Warner so much, but I got to the end of this series and I don't get it. Warner is an asshole to everyone but Juliette on his best day. I personally never shipped Juliette with anyone. She did finally grow a backbone in this last book, but it felt very unnatural. She spent the first two books feeling sorry for herself, as Kenji very accurately poins out, and then suddenly she wanted to be leader of everything. It just felt like her character progression jumped the shark there and it didn't feel believable because she was such a weak character with little to no ambitions for such a long time. 

What really did annoy the crap out of me in this book was the exacerbation of the love triangle. The initial romance with Adam wasn't believable to begin with because the relationship had such a weak foundation of isolation + hormones= insta-love. It didn't help that Adam got obnoxious as can be once Juliette broke up with him. He became the definition of stalker ex-boyfriend who didn't understand that his girlfriend had broken up with him. I wasn't feeling super warm and fuzzy towards Warner either. My main problem with Warner is that the only time he does anything benevolent is because of Juliette. This makes it very hard to see Warner as having any individual character growth because he only does nice things if his personal feelings for Juliette are involved. This makes him very hard to like because he's a jerk to everyone unless he has something to gain, and even then. Also, it's very hard to see why he fell in love with Juliette in the first place. I get that he spent a lot of time with her, but she didn't have many redeeming personality traits that I could see as being worthy of the level of romantic love he feels for her. The only time Warner was actually enjoyable to read for me was when he interacted with James and that's mostly because the conversations between them were hilariously awkward. I mean that in a completely good way. Warner has the social skills of a snail and James doesn't understand what the word discretion means, so the combination of those two characteristics had me laughing for quite a bit. 

Of course, most of the good in this book is named Kenji Kishimoto. Kenji as always helped a lot to make this book at least partially enjoyable. He tells Juliette where she's is going wrong when he has to and is the best friend someone could ever wish for really. He is also hilariously flirtatious which helped lighten the mood in the book greatly when everyone was being way too overdramatic. For a lot of the time this book read like a bad soap opera. Mafi seems to have chilled out on the horrible metaphors and similes since the first book which made this more palatable for me. I do not recommend this series to anyone who likes main characters that have depth and dislikes insta-love and badly done love triangles like I do. I know there are more books out, but I refuse to continue suffering through this disgrace of a book series. Probably the worst I've read this year. I'm done here.