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4.12 AVERAGE
4.12 AVERAGE
great way to end the series. glad jupe had more of a role :-)
So so so very good! I'm so sad it's over...I'm going to go cry while I write the review...
Review soon!
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A solid ending to a good series. I wanted a little more oomph, but it had solid character development, plot progression, and writing. There's really nothing I can complain about. For the final book I expect a lot of things to happen, but it kind of ended on a pretty boring note. Everything is tied up perfectly, and though it is nice I wanted a bit more. Still a good series, but I think my love for this series has faded with time.
A solid ending to a good series. I wanted a little more oomph, but it had solid character development, plot progression, and writing. There's really nothing I can complain about. For the final book I expect a lot of things to happen, but it kind of ended on a pretty boring note. Everything is tied up perfectly, and though it is nice I wanted a bit more. Still a good series, but I think my love for this series has faded with time.
perfect way to end the series. I will miss Cady and Lon and Jupe. the mystery during the story us well executed.
3.5/4 stars. I have mixed feelings about this final installment. I was not at all happy with the way the memory spell affected Arcadia. It just added stress to everything, and kept the relationship between her and Lon tense and vague. This being the final book, I wanted a little more romance. I also didn't love Jupe's sneaking around. It just didn't fit, and it added even more unwanted tension. He wasn't as present in this book as he was in previous books which was a bummer because I love him. I did love the epilogue though!
OK, so book 3 was amazing...and then this book was not. It was one of the stupidest last-book-in-a-series ever. WHY do writers think it's OK to do a reboot of things and rehash shit when they run out of ideas? I mean come on - that's why I didn't read the last book in the "Hush, Hush" series. I started reading this immediately after reading book 3, and when I got to a "certain part" I got so pissed off and started skimming...and skimming...and skimming until I was all the way at the end and things went back to normal and it was all over. So yeah, I read the whole thing in about an hour and a half. I've done that before with skimming, but I've always gone back and read it for real...with this, it's just not worth it. I read the entire ending and was not confused in the slightest - so basically the entire book was completely pointless. So disappointing compared to the rest of the series. But hey, I tend to get super attached to characters and don't like when writers mess with them, so maybe other people that don't get ridiculously attached would find it better.
Complicated does not begin to describe Arcadia Bell's life right now: unnatural magical power, another brush with death, and a murderous mother who's not only overbearing but determined to take permanent possession of Cady's body.
3.5 stars. This was the last book in the Arcadia Bell series. I didn't enjoy reading it as much as I did the other books in the series. There were some big coincidences that I thought were really convenient for the story telling, like characters showing up somewhere and discovering an event happens only once a month but they luckily got there at the right time. This happened twice in the book. Also, there were too many people coincidentally living in the same area.
This book also ventured way too close to romance novel territory for me. Too many sex scenes and too much talk of sex for me. Plus Cady constantly thinking about how hot Lon is and lusting after him got old fast. I'm just glad we weren't in Lon's mind too.
Also with the abilities Cady gained I felt like it made things all too easy for her to get out of every situation she was in. There were also certain characters I missed in this book that were not really present, and we are introduced to a new one and I didn't see the need to do that so late in the series.
Mostly I enjoyed this series, especially when it forgot about the hotness of its characters and focused on the family dynamic and what they really meant to each other.
Review also posted at Writings of a Reader
3.5 stars. This was the last book in the Arcadia Bell series. I didn't enjoy reading it as much as I did the other books in the series. There were some big coincidences that I thought were really convenient for the story telling, like characters showing up somewhere and discovering an event happens only once a month but they luckily got there at the right time. This happened twice in the book. Also, there were too many people coincidentally living in the same area.
This book also ventured way too close to romance novel territory for me. Too many sex scenes and too much talk of sex for me. Plus Cady constantly thinking about how hot Lon is and lusting after him got old fast. I'm just glad we weren't in Lon's mind too.
Also with the abilities Cady gained I felt like it made things all too easy for her to get out of every situation she was in. There were also certain characters I missed in this book that were not really present, and we are introduced to a new one and I didn't see the need to do that so late in the series.
Mostly I enjoyed this series, especially when it forgot about the hotness of its characters and focused on the family dynamic and what they really meant to each other.
Review also posted at Writings of a Reader
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced