I discovered Immortal Beloved a little over a year ago at my local bookstore and bought it on a whim, a complete impulse based solely on the cover. It turned out to be a fairly good whim and became one of my favourite reads in 2011. Darkness Falls followed at the start of the year, which left me with a lot of thoughts mulling around on what I wanted to see in the last book. 
 One of these things was Incy and in that respect I was bitterly disappointed by Eternally Yours. For me, Incy was both fascinating and repulsive. He and Nastasya were the best of friends for over a hundred years, and the flashbacks made it indisputably clear that he was the one who wore the trousers in that relationship. Nevertheless, he means a lot to Nasty, despite his faults, and I wanted to see the two of them thrown together in this book - a more balanced Nasty and a rehabilitated Incy. Suffice to say it didn't happen that way and if I'm honest I felt a bit let down by Incy's lack of a role in this final book of the trilogy. After all, he kicked it all off and he played such an important role in the previous two books that I felt he should have deserved more in this one too. 
 What's more, the villains didn't really play enough of a role in all of this for my tastes. They were off stage for 95% of the story, though they were pulling strings within River's itself. This didn't make up for the end reveal though as it lacked any impact, especially considering the ending of the second book. All of these people that were hinted at in Darkness Falls (Madame Edna, the Master, etc.) had no real role in Eternally Yours and were all revealed after the final battle. It seemed a waste to me as so much more could have been made of these villains. 
 The focus of this story, as in the previous books, is Nastasya's personal growth. As always, she is her own worst enemy, shying from compliments as she feels she's far too dark to deserve them; feeling the strain on her relationship with Reyn because she cannot open herself up to actual feelings. It's obvious that he wants more from her than she's ready to give and she has to sort herself out if she doesn't want to run the risk of losing him. 
 Once again, Nastasya makes for a perky narrator never afraid to poke bitter, sarcastic fun at herself. There were a number of laugh-out-loud scenes to the book, usually prompted by Nastasya claiming one thing in her narrative then doing the exact opposite in her actions. 
 While getting her own life back on track, Nastasya ultimately ends up helping all the other residents of the small town where River lives. She still has to make sure her friends from the previous books, Merryweather and Dray, get their lives back on track as well. Merryweather turns out to be a fairly easy case but Nastasya sees a lot of her party girl, train wreck persona in Dray and she's determined to give her that kick up the ass she needs to get herself sorted out. 
 When I finished the book, I felt caught between disappointment at how the villainous twist of this story flopped and contentment with how things were wrapped up. I liked the book but I do have to admit that there was an awful lot of filler to trawl through to get to the meat of the story.