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Wisteria by Adalyn Grace

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emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

As much as I love Blythe as a character - I found this to be the weakest of the series and I think it comes down to plot pacing. We spend so much time developing an enemies to lovers relationship in the first third, that when new plot things happen in the second half they felt a bit rushed. Signa is barely in this book, which is fine with me, but also her whole family's involvement with Chaos felt shoved in to Blythe's story in order to get her more involved I guess?

Blythe's story in the latter half is SO sad, and it did make me emotional, just the sacrifices she has to make as someone who is such a strong willed character.Jury is out on the twist, I'm not sure how I feel about it.

I did ultimately enjoy Blythe and Aris's relationship, the library scene was very Beauty & the Beast. I also liked the epilogue. That felt like a full circle moment to me.

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Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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emotional slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Last fifth is really enjoyable. But overall I'm disappointed. I don't want to read 250 pages full of banter and hate between a couple. I wanted the mystery-crime-fantasy from the first two books! 

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Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

That ending ruined what otherwise would have been a 5-star book. I rated it at 3.5 just because the rest of the book was very good. However, the events at the end killed all the emotional momentum, and they weren’t necessary other than to add more shock value. There are a couple of other ways the ending could have been written to better effect without ripping the rug out from underneath the reader.

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Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Loveable characters: Yes

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I'm so sad, the trilogy is over!

At first I was sad to lose Sigma's POV, but Blythe is such a wondering FMC, I love that she takes no shit and doesn't care for society at large and carves her own path. Aris is face smackable but in an hilarious way to get under Bylthe's skin but the two of them are a delight together. The arc of their romance was well written and made a lot of sense and I love how they came together.

This gets knock down in the scoring only because I feel like the addition of Chaos just added some more plot points that don't get wrapped up and at this time, I'm not sure if Grace is adding more books in this world (besides the upcoming Christmas novella). I just hope it's not added and left since
there's more to answer for with Sigma's mom

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