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thegreatundoing's review

3.0

julian is the truly reason i made it to the end, kinda relived that magnoliabj ended up tg and actually i was thorn between 1 or 3 stars cause this book ruined daisychristian lol.
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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: Complicated
adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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lyndseymowat's review

4.0
emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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jac_p's review

5.0

I will forever be a BJ Ballentine defender for the rest of my days. He has set the bar so high for the level of love I expect from the person who decides to love me
emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Nice conclusion to Magnolia & BJ's storyline. This book showcases how much both BJ and Magnolia work and grow up to be together (in a much more healthy relationship). 

Grief was portrayed and dealt with wonderfully. Anyone who has ever grieved will resonate with this book. 

I felt the book was a bit long unnecessarily. Like some things happened that were not really necessary to the story. Of course there are things that happen in the book that will evidently resolve in future books, but that is not what I mean. 

Taura ending up with Tiller felt like a stretch. And the resolution of her love triangle with Jo and Henry was not really explained. All the drama in previous books and suddenly a lost love appeared and everything righted itself. Not to happy about that.


I love how in this book Julian from Magnolia's POV is a bit of an a**hole. Knowing what we know of Julian's mind and feelings from him POV in "The Great Undoing" we can be sure he was trying to get her to never try to see him again, because he's protecting her.


Many many questions about what is going on with the gang lord gang. Cannot wait for next book. Julian, Christian and Daisy's POV are my favourite. 
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ssimplykath's review

5.0
dark emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

after the tragic ending of the long way home, into the dark follows a heart-broken magnolia trying to figure out her way in the world once more. it is heavy, it is heartbreaking, filled with grief and heart-ache. 

this was a beautiful conclusion to magnolia and bj’s story. after seeing the past two books, and how much turmoil they went through, being able to see them prosper filled my heart with joy

the character development of both of these characters is astonishing in my eyes. being able to understand why they are the way they are helps bring so much clarity to their actions. bj & magnolia are such a beautiful, destined couple when they get their shit together

the rest of the characters are also dear to my heart. i am both excited yet scared to read the daisy haites books once they come out. i can only imagine what’s going to happen

i’m not ready to be done with magnolia and bj’s story, but i am happy where it ended. the ending made my heart genuinely so happy. i’ll be thinking about these characters for a while. 

ballentine <33

marenmarieee's review

4.0

4.5 I laughed, I cried, I cringed, I got 3 hours of sleep last night because I couldn’t stop thinking about them. Love them so much but I truly cannot wait for the next Daisy book. (NOT ENOUGH JULIAN)

Finally a happy ending. Every single book has ended on a very tragic or sad note. So glad this one was different. Thought this was good closure to Bj & Magnolia. So happy they finally get their happy ending. Hopefully we’re getting closure to Daisy & Christian’s & Julian’s story too