Oh man, oh man, oh man. This book was a mess. It was a complete disaster, it was sloppy, and in my completely honest opinion it lacked everything a good book should offer.

There was little to no character development. The plot felt like it didn’t exist. Events took place in ways that felt entirely too convenient. The writing was awkward. If you didn’t read the novellas in between over 1/3 of this book would have made NO SENSE. And over half of this was completely pointless. Basically to sum it up, this book, along with the last two, felt very underdeveloped.

While the writing in this series was never exactly spectacular, the story was at the very least entertaining. But in the last two books I feel like the author bit off more than she could chew. She tries to keep the fun drama from the first few books, but it starts to feel repetitive when the characters are having the same internal debates six books later. Also she keeps this same drama despite the fact that the plot appears to be becoming more complex and the fact that in this case the characters appear to have resolved some of their conflict in previous books. The story was changing, but the characters weren’t. It was really difficult to be interested in the story when the characters themselves didn’t even seem to care that much about the plot.

I could have read the last few chapters of this book and been fine. The actual conclusion to the series was pretty nice. There were a lot of happy endings, it was nice to see that happen for the characters I spent so much time with the last few weeks. But other than that this book felt completely pointless. Like I mentioned the lack of character development, is incredibly clear in this book. Even with different priorities in this book, they’re behaviors and thoughts are all pretty much the same as they always have been. So even though I enjoyed the ending much more than I thought I would, I don’t really understand how any of the characters ended up where they were. The entire conclusion to this series tried very hard to be mysterious and complex, but fell flat because it felt too convenient.

This book was not good. The ending was nostalgic and that was the only redeeming factor. This series could have been much better if the author took time fully explain events and concepts, but there is so much left that is undefined. Or it could have ended earlier if the author focused on the plot and not all the petty drama. (I know it's ironic that I say that when I was living for the petty earlier in the series). There isn’t enough balance between everything going on in the story and it left me annoyed and confused.