Top critical review
3.0 out of 5 starsunsatisfied
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 25 February 2019
The only reason that I didn't give this book one star instead of three, was that I liked the previous books and authors too much for that.
Let's start at the beginning.
Books one and two? Amazhang. Book 3? Meh. Book 4? What's happening to this series?! And book 5 is just a big fat NO. It did have some good things, but there were too manny horrible things to cover thaat fact.
Alex may not have been the best character in the previous books, but you stil kind of got and related with him. In this book, they perpetually ruined him. I'm serious. There was even a line that was like "Bow before my evilness." ????
Then there's there's thee relationship between Tamara and Cal. 2 stars were subtracted becausse if this. I loved Tamara but this book did not do her justice. I'm not hating on this relationship because I shipped Calron, in fact, I would've actually kind of shipped it. Kind of.
It was SO forced. I was geniunely hoping that this would be the book I was looking for. That one book in which a girl and boy could be in a platoknic relationship and stil be the protagonists without one of them being in a relationship with someone else.
A good thing about this book was Gwenda. She was pretty awesome. Another thing was the LGBTQAP+ characters. They mught not have given me Cal and Aaron, byt they did give me Kai and Charlie, Master Rufus and his husband and Ceclia's mothers. They also made these relationships completely normalised without any homophobia.
If you're a fan of this series and want to find out what happens next, you can read it.
But I don't recommend it otherwise.
