A solid ending to this great trilogy! May is back in the Ever After, reunited with her ghostly friends, and hunted and hounded by her enemies once again. The plot moves quickly with tons of quirky and hilarious scenes. My favorite characters are back with the silly dialogue and camaraderie that warms my heart!

May is definitely a winsome character. She wants so badly to be "good", to be brave, to be what her friends need her to be; but she also has this wild nature that leaves her fighting against herself. She often wishes that she could just fit in, but finally comes to accept that she was born to shine, born to be a warrior.

May and her friends crack me up! The whole ghostly crew is so much fun and I love their snappy dialogue and little heart-felt moments when they support and encourage each other. I'm so emotionally attached to all these characters now!

I still don't really like the ghostly Halloween-type setting. The world building is VERY good, with lots of interesting details and excellent descriptions. But that kind of setting just doesn't appeal to me with all the cobwebs and ghouls and slime. I loved the magical bits though, and the tour of the universe with stargazing being prominent in the plot!

I loved the ending! It was the perfect conclusion to this last book!

Spoiler

The fact that it was Pumpkin who ultimately saves the world, and NOT May, was absolutely perfect! After all her angst about saving the world and being the warrior who rescues the cosmos, it was little cowardly Pumpkin, the house ghost who she told to go hide, who sacrifices it all and saves the world. Simply brilliant on so many levels! First of all, it was surprising that the hero does nothing heroic at the last. Secondly, it shows that the small one, the weak one, the cowardly one CAN be the hero! Thirdly, it worked because Bo Cleevil never expected a threat from that direction. Such great writing, especially since the mystery around the Bridge of Souls was built up through the whole book.

I love this whole trilogy!