This series seems to be a solid 3 stars from me which might be more on the two and half side of three. If you like YA fantasy stuff you want to read this series but it wasn't really /that/ amazing. The Chosen ones (apart from maybe Rebecka and Elias, more Rebecka) were good characters, well written and you go to know them in depth. Anyone who wasn't A Protagonist (tm) was left out a bit. You could always tell who's the bad guy which isn't a good trait to be too see through. Like, I hated Sigrid and Walter from the word go and see how right I was. Struggles the Chosen ones went through, not only magical but normal teenage struggles as well were plausible. In this book the magic was too much and too weird, even for a book set in a magical world. The ending reminded me of the late series Replica where in the end the main girl, Amy, just showed the world she's a superhuman and became, well, a superhero. This was a bit the same, and I kinda lost my interest at the point where Evelina appeared to be a witch. I knew all along Rickard would be, but Evelina and ESPECIALLY Gustaf were pushing that boundary too far.
My favourite character throughout was Linnea and her and Elias' meeting again part broke my heart, as in a positive sense did her getting back together with Vanessa. I was happy it didn't go too well, but that this book had a good ending for a non-straight couple. I also wish all good to Felix whose love was brutally taken away from him and Anna-Karin who probably grew the most as a person during this series.

Now that I think of it it actually wasn't that bad. Many of the characters were good, you found it hard to put a book down and a lot of the magic stuff was interesting. In this book shit just got too far with the new "Circle" and Walter shit. Go away, Walter.