![]() And Fitz becomes a total jerk by the end of the book. Have fun waiting.) We also don’t see a lot of the side characters we’ve come to care about much, either. (By the way, you won’t get a semi-ending to the triangle until Stellarlune. (Is anybody really in doubt about who she’s going to choose? Because I’d bet quite a lot of money that it’s Keefe.) It gets tiring to read about pages upon pages of Keefe, Sophie, and Fitz navigating their complicated feelings, and by the end of it you have a big fat nothing. Because all those pages with Sophie and her duo add up to Sophie still not knowing who she really likes. ![]() And then the love triangle, let me just say, you will be So. But a thirteen year old could most likely handle it. Plus we also get Sophie’s agonized POV as this all happens to her and her friends, which adds an intriguing level of intensity to it all. The crunching and shattering of bones, the shredding of muscle and nerve, the slicing and stabbing of said shattered bones and shredded muscle, it’s all pretty gory. My thirteen year old self felt a little queasy reading it, and I have a super tough stomach when it comes to violence in books or movies. The fight that lands Sophie and Fitz in the Healing Center is pretty graphic, too. The writing is totally engrossing, Shannon Messenger has crafted a great style that sweeps you away and leaves you feeling like an emotional wreck after the book is over, so the hundreds of pages in the Healing Center were actually pretty interesting even though not much really happened. Some stuff is really great, (Sophie and Keefe’s spirited, feisty banter and magnetic chemistry, anything with Ro, and the fact that Dex has finally gotten over Sophie) and other stuff is just meh. For one thing, we get basically no answers about anything besides Silveny’s pregnancy and the fact that Fitz likes Sophie (ugh, Fitzphie is SO gross), so if you’re wondering if you can skip a book, this would be the book to skip, though I definitely don’t recommend doing that. Flashback starts with a bang and ends with a BOOM, but the in-between can be super slow.
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