Reviewed by: Rabid Reads. 
 This is the second time in as many years that I've had to bid adieu to one of Jenn Bennett's series, and I really hate goodbyes. GRAVE PHANTOMS had a different vibe to it than the two previous installments because the final Magnusson sibling is younger, female, and the romance had a friends turned lovers spin to it. The plot wasn't quite as strong as books 1 & 2 with somewhat choppy writing, and a discernible separation between Astrid & Bo's relationship, and the ghost yacht story line rather than a blended narrative. 
 To an outsider, the Roaring Twenties era appears to be a fun adventure, that is if you're a white American, however for people like Yeung, it's anything but. I liked how the author succeeded in capturing the prejudice of this period, and how it added a level of taboo-ness to the love story. Witnessing the general population's treatment of Bo, and immigrants as a whole, through his eyes as well as via Astrid, someone who cares deeply for him, was humanizing, and I thought that the two characters' reactions were very genuine. 
 I loved how madly independent both of the protagonists were; Miss Magnusson with her refusal to live in her brothers' shadow, and Yeung's unwillingness to accept hand-outs. It was great seeing these two finally take steps towards achieving their happily-ever-after, and strangely it wasn't their moving reunion that caused me to reach for a tissue, although that too was a close call. Instead, it was Bo's heart-to-heart with Winter; his second-in-command envisioned the worst when he declared his intentions, but family by choice is no small thing. 
 The artefact decoding facet of this tale was in a lot of ways similar to GRIM SHADOWS; however it wasn't quite as detailed as Lowe's novel, or as entertaining. Pirates aboard a ghost yacht sound exciting, and yet the parts didn't fit as cleanly together as they could have which made Bennett's last hurrah rather tame in comparison to ROARING TWENTIES # 1 & 2. I wish that the epilogue had been slightly longer, and had encompassed all of the Magnusson clan to a larger extent as opposed to being mostly about Astrid & Bo. 
 GRAVE PHANTOMS was a fitting conclusion to this trilogy.