I didn’t like this book. I’m not a huge fan of dark fiction, and while this wasn’t the darkest, I was cringe-ing through some (most) of it. For the genre, it was fairly well written, so my main gripe was truly with the plot being predictable. 
I didn’t truly… like or care about the two main characters as more than entertainment. In fact, Jayden was probably my favorite character and they spoke only a handful of times. 
Maybe, completely possible, I misread some scenes, but I am fairly sure that the only two POC characters truly given any screentime were minor characters in a single scene. One of which was a child SA victim and the other, an adult black woman without a single speaking line. So… there are technically named POC characters, but I wouldn’t say the story is truly diverse. (We spend most of the 300 pages with Aya and Elodie, who are both white women). 

All this being said, I did finish the book so…. I guess it kept me entertained🧍‍♀️

While the prose has some beautiful lines, it was an absolute struggle to get through this book. The plot was hard to find, and I often felt like I’d somehow missed a scene, even though I was continuously rereading paragraphs to understand them. What should have been a two or three hour read became a multiple day affair because of how Dense it felt. 

My loan on the audiobook at the library expired,,, but I also kind of didnt care enough to find time to listen to the end.

Two thoughts: 
1. How is everything always Zeus’ fault??? Like deadass?????
2. Okay it was very short but honestly it is not the worst thing I have read and this book got an extra star for being just enjoyable. 

Okay because actually what was that????
For all the on screen traumas she put these characters through, she seemed to just want to… resolve and “heal” those characters off screen and then be like “they’re okay now!”. 
I stopped reading right after

Christopher’s death

. But decided to actually DNF after seeing a spoiler online (

about Matthew leaving James

). 
To be completely honest, I did not enjoy The Dark Artifices and almost gave up on this author after them, but decided to give The Last Hours a try because I loved The Infernal Devices. But, I am no longer the 11 year old that started these books, and Judith’s inability to keep me invested in the characters that are “important” (or survive) is something I’m not sure I can overlook anymore. I truly may not read The Wicked Powers because of this, and will be reading the wiki page synopsis for the end of this book now. 
Maybe someday I will pick up this ebook again and finish the book (and be mad about it) just to have it marked as completed on my Shadowhunters reading challenge, but fuck Judith fr fr.