that was rough. not the ending I was hoping for.

The first 30% was so promising 😭things were moving along but then we just got bogged down in so much magic and endless ‘battles’ . It felt very repetitive as was the writing - the same phrases repeated over and over.

I think the fundamental problem with this series is the ‘magic’ system. Basically if you create this ability to alter reality to an extent where anything can change and there are no rules, then there’s no way for the reader to have a grasp on what’s coming. In the second book as well as this one I just felt like we were being pulled along and told oh we have x problem then we’ll just do ✨magic✨ and solve it. There’s no logic behind what’s going on and that makes it frustrating and disengaging to read. There’s no puzzling out what is going to happen in the plot because they’ll just always create a new way to do something.

Changing the main pov from Sancia to Berenice was an odd choice for a final book in the series? Like why? It’s not that I don’t like Berenice as a character but we followed Sancia through so much!

As someone who is a big Gregor stan even though I didn’t expect to get a ton of him in this book, I was hoping for more depth to his arc and not a blah resolution. He’s literally a main character in books one and two, and he was written out of the story completely.

While I can appreciate the overall message of this series being: it’s not the technology we have it’s what we do with it, the society we create. Getting to that ending wasn’t the payout I was hoping for.

ending: 

So people stop using language and writing to communicate cause everyone can just hear everyone’s thoughts? So in this reality there’s no books? Fiction? What an odd thing to posit… in a fiction book.
Did everyone just go to another planet? I actually don’t understand. Where the f are they going?
Actually absurd that Berenice is just left behind by the society she fucking saved