The pace of this book is a little off as it builds up the budding romance and conclusion of the main plot introduced in the first two books for the majority of the book just to close it all out rapidly towards the end, giving vague, unexpected solutions/answers to ongoing conflicts and subplots. However the overall story is still as heartwarming and endearing, with needed character highlights and encouraging changes strived for early on. 

Surprisingly this was better than the second one. Honestly completely skip the second one and you won’t miss anything. The beginning of this book was pretty boring and as per the other books has a lot of racism classicism and sexism baked into it. However toward the end we get some girls supporting girls moments and the ending is truly wild 10/10 great ending. Also loved when America’s sister finally called her out for stringing two guys along, it’s what ever reader is thinking. But the ending is wow truly a mess of absolute wild events. I fully felt the shock of reading it yet again. A true plot twist resolving the whole plot. idk why there are two more books but i guess we’ll see
fr what was 2014 me on about tho 😂

Okay, so now that I’m truly done with the first 3 books (which I basically consider the series) I’ll give my full, TRUE review.

I hate America. She is one of the worst characters I’ve honestly read in a book. God, younger me was so enthralled with the series that I barely even gave notice to the actual way she acts. She’s selfish, a liar, and mostly does things for self gain. There are some moments I enjoy her, but the most part I don’t. In my other reviews, I have a basic review but didn’t dive in depth. Im telling you now, I’ve really hated America since the beginning of the series. She cheats on Maxon throughout the whole thing, she lies to him about the most basic things, while he is absolutely devoted to her. Ugh, imagine having a puppy dog man who follows you around while cheat with other men. I don’t even blame Aspen, it’s America’s fault. She strung them both along for the whole series. I hate her.

The plot was okay. I didn’t love it as much as I once did. This book is better than all the others, very fast pace, goes into a lot of the world building (kinda, the world building overall sucks so bad, so the tiny scraps of good I will take, okay?) it just felt very basic. I feel like the author has a very bland writing style. In general, I would recommend it.

I love Maxon so much he’s literally a perfect boyfriend. I am team Maxon 100% but only if I end up with Maxon and America leaves or something. lmfao.

Some problems I have with it is the terrible, terrible depictions of classism and castes. It just feels like a watered down version, a badly thought out version of the real thing. Literally take one second to look at real politics and your whole plot would change, for real.

Whew, what a wild ride...
It feels weird, like there happened too much in the last few chapters and then on the other hand not enough. Where's the explanations for nearly everything that happened in the end?

What did the rebels want to achieve with that last attack? August and Georgia? Why was America's father a rebel? Why the deaths in the end?

This review sums up everything I'd say about this book.