This series was everything I wanted from a book about teenagers being witches. Magic? Check. A group of girls becoming unlikely friends and working together to save the world with said magic? Super check. There's honestly nothing else I can say except that if it's a thoroughly entertaining series about witches that you're after this series is well worth your time.

"What shall we do next?" "Keep on saving the world."

I really, really loved this - The Key was, without a doubt, the best book of the trilogy.

ruined my life i'm gonna need ten years to recover

Amazing!!! Can't understand how long it took for me to get to read this book. I have loved this book since 2011

I read the first two first books in 2014 and I've been waiting since for the third book to get translated into Spanish so I could finish my collection. Well, that didn't happen, but at least I have a very decent knowledge of English so I bought it in that language.

Because of the length and the language, I assumed that it would take me very long to read it, perhaps a month, but I've managed to read it in less than a week. I actually finished it yesterday after marathoning 300 pages in an afternoon, but I was too speechless to write a coherent review for this book.

I was scared that, after almost four years since I read the first two books, I would have lost interest in the story/characters, or that my opinion about them would change. However, I was very pleased to discover that my obsession with Engelsfors is as alive as it was when I read it when I was fifteen, perhaps even more.

Although now I realise that the author's writing style is not as elegant as I thought it was years ago, I found myself jumping into the pages without realising, and immersing myself in this marvelous story. I accept that the book might be too long, but I didn't find any scene that I considered irrelevant to the plot or the character's development, so there wasn't any moment in which I wanted to put the book down.

The characters felt realer than ever. They make mistakes, they learn from them, they love and they hate and they have conflicting emotions. Sometimes I wondered if the characters are all like Felix and they can make the reader feel what they feel.

Now let's go to the spoilers:

The Council's circle fascinated me, to be honest. I loved Viktor and Clara during the whole book, the relationship they have and how much they love and care about each other. When Minoo sees that Walter has killed Viktor I physically felt a knot in my stomach. I really liked him.

From the Council's circle, however, my favourite character is Felix. He's so cute, I only wanted to put him in my pocket and carry him to happiness-land. I don't know why, but his character really carved a Felix-shaped hole in my heart, and he plans to stay there for a long time. Honestly, I knew from the beginning that this circle wouldn't be enough, and although I liked Sigrid at the beginning, I started mistrusting her and Walter after a while.

I found it amazing that Evelina, Rickard and Gustaf turned out to be witches too! I felt very happy, especially because of Evelina. I'm glad she got to be with the Chosen Ones while Vanessa and Linnéa had broken up and that she could support her.

And talking about it, Linnéa and Vanessa desperated me for the whole book. I had been waiting YEARS for them to get together, and when they finally do, they break up soon after. I was in pain. I'm glad that they got together again after everything ended, they truly belong together. I was also very happy for Minoo and Gustaf! They were my second OTP (well, actually it was an OT3, but the authors had the great idea of killing Rebecka. It would have been an amazing polyamori).

Minoo really worried me when she started using the powers on herself. I'm glad that the Chosen Ones convinced her to break her blessing, I really feared throughout the whole book that she was going to die or she would get stuck in the Borderland.

Talking about the Borderland, I almost (almost) cried when they meet with the dead Chosen Ones, especially when Elias and Linnéa meet each other again :( I felt so bad for them. When they say goodbye and Minoo is with Rebecka and Linnéa is with Elias i truly felt bad for Ida, but I'm glad that Anna-Karin went to talk to her. She's such a sweetheart and doesn't deserve anything that happened to her.

Also, the fact that Minoo lost her powers FOREVER felt so big to me. I was very shocked, but I'm glad that she doesn't have to deal with the guardians' powers anymore.

In conclusion, I think that The key was a perfect ending for a trilogy that has managed to be my all-time favourite trilogy for years. I'm honestly going to miss Engelsfors and its characters, but I'm happy to know that, whenever I want, they'll be ready to welcome me back.

my babies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Los finales de saga/trilogía me dan mucho miedo. Los últimos finales que he leído (Sinsajo, te miro a ti) me han parecido cobardes y mal llevados, como si no se hubiera pensado en el final hasta que tocó escribirlo. Pero eso no ocurre con Engelsfors. Cuando lees The Key te das cuenta de que los autores sabían perfectamente todo lo que iba a ocurrir, y desde el primer libro dejan pistas de las que no te das cuenta hasta llegar al desenlace.

La evolución de los personajes a lo largo de la trilogía, la trama mágica, el apocalipsis, los "buenos" y los "malos", las relaciones familiares, la amistad, la traición, la confianza, las sospechas, el amor, la propia identidad. Todo esto aparece en la trilogía Engelsfors, y ya no sé qué hacer para que lo leáis. Se ha convertido, sin duda, en mi trilogía preferida. La emoción que sentí cuando se acercaba el final, cuando todo iba a salir bien o mal, cuando los Elegidos se lo jugaban todo y yo estaba allí, con ellos, dentro del Círculo, dándoles también mi fuerza, esperando que fueran fuertes después de todo por lo que habían pasado.

Ayer cerré la última página y ya echo de menos Engelsfors, la magia y a las chicas. Pero siempre estarán conmigo, y podré volver cuando quiera. Lo que me da pena es no poder leer 1000 páginas más, porque lo haría sin pensarlo.

I have so much love for this book. I loved it cover to cover but am feeling sad that the trilogy is over. I really love all the characters for different reasons, which I can't often say for this genre of book. I have just finished this book and am feeling so many emotions, which shows how great the writing style is. so happy I read this book, is definitely the best book I have read this year.