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A review by wii3rdo
It Ends With Violence by Elle Thorpe
3.0
3.5 stars
as far as tying up loose ends go, it was really my saving grace for continuing this book after Bliss got pregnant or really, after pregnancy talk happened in general. this book was really chaotic (in a good way for the most part), but there was a LOT going on. i feel like certain issues could've been closed out before the final installment came so that there wasn't a whirlwind of things to focus on at the end of the series. dealing with Caleb shouldn't have been dragged out. PERSONALLY i feel like making him form a relationship with Rebel was unnecessary because they could've killed him off when they rescued Vincent. another thing i feel was unnecessary was the amount of povs in this book. it's already a lot plot-wise to focus on the povs of the four/five main characters, but adding in Caleb, Siren, Rebel and whoever else? it was just too much.
i also felt like certain resolutions to problems that have carried out through three books weren't resolved in a way that was satisfying to me. like Bliss finding out about Nichelle, Axel and her dad. it just seemed really erratic and all over the place for the emotional weight of Bliss finding all this out. it was like it was out in seconds and if the book were naturally fast paced it would've been fine, but i feel like it was more medium paced and this emotionally heavy, hectic scene was too much too fast and it wasn't paced properly.
my saving grace for reading this story was really wanting answers. i wanted to see what happened to Fancy. i wanted to see what happened with Psychos. i wanted to see what happened with War's MC. i wanted to find out what happened with a lot of things. there were just a lot of things that ended abruptly after being carried over through three books. and these issues were something that were HEAVY and i just didn't like the way they were "resolved."
i wish i liked this closer as much as i liked every other book in the series, but it really disappointed me on what i was expecting for the way things should've wrapped up.
THOUGHTS WHILE READING!!
⇢ ANOTHER CALEB POV? I’M SICK OF THE JUMP-SCARES IDC WHAT THAT LOSER HAS TO SAY
⇢ it’s SEEMING LIKE Siren tampered with Army and Fancy’s car to fuck with the brakes (her being good with mechanical stuff was foreshadowed earlier) so they’d die and she’d have War sooner rather than later and i’m betting the idea wasn’t hers, it was Gus. I KNEW I COULDN’T TRUST HIS ASS, but nothing’s been confirmed yet so i’ll wait this out—i still don’t FUCK WITH THESE SNAKES
as far as tying up loose ends go, it was really my saving grace for continuing this book after Bliss got pregnant or really, after pregnancy talk happened in general. this book was really chaotic (in a good way for the most part), but there was a LOT going on. i feel like certain issues could've been closed out before the final installment came so that there wasn't a whirlwind of things to focus on at the end of the series. dealing with Caleb shouldn't have been dragged out. PERSONALLY i feel like making him form a relationship with Rebel was unnecessary because they could've killed him off when they rescued Vincent. another thing i feel was unnecessary was the amount of povs in this book. it's already a lot plot-wise to focus on the povs of the four/five main characters, but adding in Caleb, Siren, Rebel and whoever else? it was just too much.
i also felt like certain resolutions to problems that have carried out through three books weren't resolved in a way that was satisfying to me. like Bliss finding out about Nichelle, Axel and her dad. it just seemed really erratic and all over the place for the emotional weight of Bliss finding all this out. it was like it was out in seconds and if the book were naturally fast paced it would've been fine, but i feel like it was more medium paced and this emotionally heavy, hectic scene was too much too fast and it wasn't paced properly.
my saving grace for reading this story was really wanting answers. i wanted to see what happened to Fancy. i wanted to see what happened with Psychos. i wanted to see what happened with War's MC. i wanted to find out what happened with a lot of things. there were just a lot of things that ended abruptly after being carried over through three books. and these issues were something that were HEAVY and i just didn't like the way they were "resolved."
i wish i liked this closer as much as i liked every other book in the series, but it really disappointed me on what i was expecting for the way things should've wrapped up.
THOUGHTS WHILE READING!!
⇢ ANOTHER CALEB POV? I’M SICK OF THE JUMP-SCARES IDC WHAT THAT LOSER HAS TO SAY
⇢ it’s SEEMING LIKE Siren tampered with Army and Fancy’s car to fuck with the brakes (her being good with mechanical stuff was foreshadowed earlier) so they’d die and she’d have War sooner rather than later and i’m betting the idea wasn’t hers, it was Gus. I KNEW I COULDN’T TRUST HIS ASS, but nothing’s been confirmed yet so i’ll wait this out—i still don’t FUCK WITH THESE SNAKES