I don't think I like the direction that the author is taking this series. I don't understand why she wants to make things so dreary and hopeless.

And I especially hate that she killed Jared. What was the reason for that? Just so she could take Lizzy in this horribly sad direction?

The writing is good, but I'm giving it only three stars because I feel like the events of this book were solely to serve the purpose of the new depressing direction, and I don't like it.