This is a DNF for me because after dragging thru almost 3 books I just don't care anymore. It feels like the storyline is just going round and round, without adding anything new (or interesting).

I have kept up with badly written, juvenile writing just to get to the end of a story, but even I couldn't take any more. It just felt more and more like the Twilight saga moved south of the Mason-Dixon line. I already struggled thru that mess once, I can't do it again.

Plus, would someone introduce the author to some real male teenagers? Where did that inner voice come from?

Super-natural

too long, drags on too much ( )

Awesome series! ( )

Oh, oh, oh, oh. I'm still not over the shock of the last chapter. Maybe three-four chapters. Which I cried through the entirety. It's easy for a book to make me get blurry. Marginally easy for a book to get me teary. Rare for a book to make me drop out a tear or two. And it's been something like ten years since I was having to stop, breathe, wipe my eyes to be able to keep reading, which just started the whole cycle over again.

Bravo. Bravo. So much. It's still with me, and I've read two unrelated books since it and am in the beginning of Beautiful Redemption, right now, and this ending is still with me.



The books in this series just seem to get better and better as they go. The authors figuring out the things they aren't good at and excelling at that in the next book. This book was beyond amazing. Like nearly five stars amazing. Yes, only nearly. Because it was so amazing, this is why my only few problems with it stood out glaringly like someone dropped a spotlight in my eyes.

The characters, events and places are fully lush and amazing, every time we are in them or with them. But this one felt so haphazardly like there were too many of all of the above, and even if they were perfect when we were there in those place or with those people, it was authentic and perfect. But. When we weren't it was like those people and places forgot to exist any more, never got mentioned or thought of until it was conveniently a need for the storyline movement again.

Something I saw a whole lot of with at least two-to-five different people and somewhere around three places.

This was my only big problem, and even this can only really make me move my review to like a 4.7-4.8 stars. The rest is just that good.



This book was topsy-turvey and upside-down and amazing. I was glad to see that my biggest problem with the end of Beautiful Darkness (where the couple fall into each others arms like everything is perfect and there is no hurt, which soured me sad on that ending) was addressed in this one. Adressed by Ethan and Lena, by Ethan and Liv, and by Lena and Liv. I probably liked it best that it was so real in that handling, and that this whole subject, while it was an undercurrent was not the focus of the novel.

I continue to madly love Macon and Amma and everything these two get at. How much they know, how much they show, and how much they keep hidden. The Sister's still own me heart and soul ("Don't you defende vegetablism, Mercy. You know it's the last stop to not having panties or preachers." or some such). I am beyond deeply still in love with the Southern witticisms, and I cannot wait to see where the book takes us by the end. ( )