Original rating - 2 stars, rounded down to 1.5

I added this to my DNFs shelf but it was sort of a DNF.

Spoiler

The first half just Keefe's detention records, how to pronounce the characters' names and more .

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It was (sort of) a DNF in the sense that I basically skimmed through this and skipped straight to the second half.

First of all, it's 764 pages including the first half. I mean, that is ridiculous. One character should have gotten 2-3 pages maximum, not 20 pages.
That just makes it boring, since most people are not going to want to read Sophie's healing centre records unless they are huge KOTLC fans.
It could be two separate books or something or just a SHORTER first half but no, it had to be one book so that it shouldn't be able to fit in anyone's bags or something.

Forget about the size, it had to end with another cliffhanger.
I do not like cliffhangers, and this one frustrated me so much!
The last 4 books or something all ended with cliffhangers and I was really, really hoping that this would be different. But of course, we got another cliffhanger.
Sophie was almost unbearable in this one.
I've heard that the ninth book comes out in November 2021 and I do want to read that! I'm hoping it'll be cliffhanger free since it's the last book in the series right?
I don't expect much but I think I know what book 9 might be about!