It’s a good story, but I have a few gripes. 

I finally was able to put my finger on why this author doesn’t seem to be able to quite get there when it comes to describing their characters inner thoughts & feelings. Because there are two perspectives in this book, I eventually noticed that the way the perspectives were written weren’t all too different. We have two different characters whose inner monologues don’t differ all too much. They both notice and emphasize the same exact things the other would in the situation. I feel that the only reason Kang and Ning’s chapters didn’t blend in as much as they could’ve was because they were in different locations a majority of the book. I feel like it is just another facet of how this author doesn’t seem to know how to really convey a character’s personality so well.

Kind of confused as to why this is a duology instead of a trilogy. I feel like everything was pretty stuffed in there in the end. Not that it was bad at all because I enjoyed it a lot (and cried a little), but I would’ve loved more!!!

What I can say is bad about the ending of this series is the epilogue. Who edited that? Who proofread? They did the author dirty. Why did the tense keep shifting???? Just pick a damn tense!!!!!