4.18 AVERAGE

challenging dark emotional hopeful tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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
adventurous emotional tense
adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Finally!!

The war has ended and there is a monarch! (s)

This was a long long read, with almost too much side story chapters. What could have been written and told in half the size of book was stretched out and felt dragged.

The story itself will always be a 5* read but I dropped a star purely for the unnecessary length of the story itself.
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

omg ZA is done, it's over... The war is over... Catalina is FREEEE
Overall I love the series and this wrapped everything up wonderfully. I'd like to thank Audible for keeping my reading steam up for it and saving me probably another summer it would have taken to read it. BUT I take part of my thanks backs for Geraldine's voice; her POV is already rough to visually read for me, so another sense was hit hard.

Epilogue spoilers:
While cute, I think it'd be nice to not see every character have 17* children. It seems out of character for some, even if it's "later" in their life, it's still under a decade later?? Like, did they ever graduate?!

ALSO useless side plot character
Lyra
was just.... forgotten? THAT'S what the sisters hold themselves back from writing more of?! Okurr
adventurous challenging dark hopeful tense medium-paced
adventurous 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: Complicated