Laia already gets a ‘happily ever after’ with Elais anyways, but to make this happen Mira was brought back so that she becomes the Soul Catcher and Elais is free. She portrays life the way it truly is, not as she wishes it to be or as we, her readers, wish it to be. I wanted so badly to crumple in despair and throw this book against the wall and rage and rage and rage until I was numb and my throat was begging me to shut the hell up.

Harper’s death wasn’t needed and if you were going to do a death like that, I feel like more time should have been dedicated to it.Helene and Musa had a sweet moment together at the end, and it seemed like it was hinting toward a potential relationship for them. I guess after everyone that had been taken from Helene that she’d be left with more than who she was. I can see some people will probably find the resolution anticlimactic, but I personally think it was perfect and fits the characters the best.

My favourite thing about Laia is how determined she is and how she constantly persists after what she has been through. But it came and went in a matter of sentences, and her part in the end battle didn't make much sense either. Not until you reach the last page and it is too late, far too late to put the book down and pretend you never encountered it. It’s just one of those series that you’ve been following since the first book was published but you slowly grow unattached to because the story no longer appeals to you. Had I been reading this series as the books were being released, this book would've been the disappointment of the year for me.I knew she would kill some characters but I didn’t think she would kill that many people and I kind of resented the book for it. To think, this could've easily been a 5-star read, the first person present tense narrative notwithstanding.