This ending was just so bad. At least the first book was campy, which made it fun to a degree. And the second book…it was bad, but somehow not as boring as this one. 

How the fuck are you going to have a book about war and have no depth? No humanity? Nothing that feels real? Everything was superficial. Action for action’s sake. Smh. This was just embarrassing to read tbh. 

No one died? For real?? The stakes are nonexistent at this point. I should not be surprised, given SJM’s track record with this series. 

Oh, also, gotta love the war crimes our “good guys” are committing. Love that for us. Ex: killing a surrendering enemy, waterboarding/death by torture/drowning, etc…

The magic “system” degrades further with each book - I doubt even Sarah Janet knows what the fuck is happening here. 

Poor Lucien is reduced to nothing in this book. He deserved better. What the fuck was that bullshit “quest”???

And what the fuck did SJM do with Tamlin?? A whole lot of NOTHING. This fandom’s obsession with him had me prepared for some heinous shit, but this little baby boy did nothing at all except pout. The fuck?

Not a single thing that was set up had a meaningful payoff. Elain’s Sight. The Carver. Fucking character arcs (Rhys needs to learn to rely on others and not drain himself to the point of death. Oh? He did that anyway? Okay.) Smh. Really amateur writing here. Learn how to set up some real plot threads before wasting my time on hundreds of pages of this bullshit.

I don’t want to keep going, and SJM does not deserve my time or yours. There are better authors out there.