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Finale by Stephanie Garber

spoon55's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense 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

4.5

Overall, another great story of our favorite characters but a little bit of a let down as the final book (not counting the novella coming out). It seemed too easy how they won (and a little overly cheesy?) and left a lot of plot holes (why wouldn’t Jacks just try and kill Legend when he was admitting his love for Tella?). 

If there was another book to have some closure on that, it would be appreciated. I’m hoping the novella does 🤞

Jurians proposal and Tellas letter were perfect at the end

phantomgecko's review against another edition

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medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

I really should review books right after I review them instead of waiting a month. I remember having distinct review thoughts, but now I cannot remember.

As best I can tho, here're my thoughts.

The writing is as over the top as ever, but I suspect that I wouldn't mind so much if I read the books instead of listening to them. The narrator was so melodramatic. A shame how much narrators affect my perception of the book.

idk, it all came together well enough. Hurray for the lovers.

Sidenote: there's a lot of passionate kissing and much talk of tongues and dominance and whatever. And...I just cannot relate to this line of spice. Tongue isn't the best part of making out? idk, it just made me smh and smile a little whenever this came up.

shubbard116's review against another edition

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2.0

I’m tired of this family’s drama.
But also… what happened to Tellas character? The things I liked about her were gone. So many stupid love triangles (I guess it is YA…). And all of a sudden in the last 80 pages of the book people who were always evil are now becoming helpful? And the ending of the story made no sense, was so fast, and way too tidy. Felt like a “oh hurry we gotta switch this to a happy ending fast!” No we don’t. It doesn’t have to be that happy. Now it just makes me angry and confused instead of having a meaningful moral.
Least favorite book of the trilogy, but we did it.

robynhagle's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

julia_gunger's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging mysterious 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? No

4.0

kayleighmariee's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

jenorwhatever's review against another edition

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fast-paced

5.0

mlampe's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

eswinbanks's review against another edition

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3.0

I truly enjoyed the first two books, however I felt like Finale fell short. Not because of the book itself but because it was the FINAL book. There is still so much more that should be said, for example what will happen to Tella's daughter when she comes of age. And will Scarlett have a happy rule over her kingdom? This book would have made me feel happier if there was going to be a fourth book. But still I recommend everyone to read it!

yureisilhouette's review against another edition

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2.0

take a shot every time "love" is mentioned

Finale is more about who has the most prettiest and pettiest magic in the kingdom that can woo the ladies [facepalm] This was poorly rushed.. it's like the author has many ideas and just decided to cram it all in the last book.

I do, however, wanna learn more about the Fates