I have to say that I've been rather underwhelmed by this trilogy as a whole. I liked the first book well enough, but Scent of Magic pretty much confirmed that I've lost interest in the trilogy and perhaps Snyder's writing as a whole. Now don't take this to mean that the books are bad. Snyder does have the ability to make her books fairly readable in a way that will appeal to a lot of readers. I'm just not one of those readers anymore, apparently. 
 The good in this book is that like I said, it's fairly easy to read and follow along with. It does feel more like a YA novel than an adult one, but that might make it more appealing to some. The one thing I rather liked in this book as a whole was the concept of the Death and Peace Lillies. It's an interesting concept and I did like the general mystery surrounding them. 
 As far as what killed the book for me, I think it's the predictability and familiarity of it. This is pretty much the Study and Glass series lumped together in another trilogy. You could probably paste Yelena's name into both books and have Study Series 2.0. It doesn't help that Avry is too perfect of a character and lacks Yelena's appeal. It seems like every time Avry tries something, she excels at it and just about every character loves her or is at least obsessed with her. Even when she does something wrong, it's never her fault. Someone else is either manipulating or controlling her in some aspect. This got incredibly old after a while and while I do love a good Mary Sue every once in a while and liked Yelena for this reason, I didn't like this when it came to Avry. She's just sort of boring. Perhaps if I hadn't read Snyder's other work and known she could do better, I would have loved this more, but I have and I didn't. I was mostly bored while reading it, which is why it's taken me so long to finish it. I got this in late December/early January and couldn't really get into it, but wanted to finish it in the hopes I'd find something that would spark that glow I so wanted to feel. 
 I didn't dislike this enough to where I'd warn everyone to skip it, but I think I'd recommend getting this via the library rather than buying it outright. I might and I stress might flip through the final book to see what the big mystery surrounding the Lillies is all about, but I wouldn't lose any sleep if I didn't read it. I really wish I could be more positive about this, but I was just so collosally disappointed by this entry. I have a bit of a hunch that this will be the case with a lot of readers and that readers will either absolutely love this entry or they won't. I can't see anyone absolutely hating this, though. Snyder did manage to keep me just interested enough to where it kept it from being a DNF.