manikahemmerixh 's review for:

Rapture by Lauren Kate

2.5

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Ugh. This is a hard one to rate. I was glad when the story got back on track and moved a plot forward rather than dragging on through filler content like I felt 80% of book three did. It felt like things were actually finally happening with purpose and I was sitting at about a 3 - 3.5 star rating (after rating the last one 2.75 and the first two 3 stars) and then I got to the ending. I fully should have anticipated that ending, in hindsight it isn't shocking but it didn't land for me. 

I know it's supposed to be romantic, but as a reader, you're telling me I went through 1200 pages to end BASICALLY WHERE I STARTED? Breaking the curse but forcing them to be re-born one more time, lose all of their angel family, etc., etc. is not a cute romantic ending to me. Also, I could go on and on about all the plot holes I feel like the ending accentuates, but the biggest one for me is that Luce spends all this time so worried about the way the curse takes her from peoples life over and over again but she didn't think about her current family and best friend once before signing that Lucinda's life away?

I'm definitely overthinking it and maybe I would have found this sweeter when I was twelve and only cared if my main characters ended up happy together.