baba_yaga_librarian 's review for:

Winter by Marissa Meyer
4.0
After some thought, I gave this title another star. While I didn't love the book itself, I do think it was a good conclusion to a series that added characters with each book. There was action, there was success in their goals, and each couple got some highlighted time of their own. What dragged it down for me was every time the group went to do something, someone was captured and/or separated, and then the next few chapters were about someone else stewing about how to retrieve them. If this had happened once or maybe twice, I wouldn't have notice it as much.
Spoiler But seriously...wolf waiting for scarlet, they meet up then Wolf is captured. Thorne brooding about Cress sacrificing for the group, then later in the book Cress worried about Thorne when he is captured. Jacin sending Winter off, then her being sick and needing rescuing.
It just went on and on. I'm not sure why the author dragged everything out like that, it was a huge book. If the group had managed to stay together more, the book would have been much shorter, and more exciting.