Ughhh!! Why did I force myself through this whole series? It really was not good, y'all. 
 And for this book in particular, there was about zero emotion. I feel like Kiera Cass would get close to a mildly interesting plot line just to tell it no. Have any of y'all ever done improv? One of the first rules you learn is that you need to say yes. You have to be open to the rabbit holes. Saying no only shuts down the scene and leaves your fellow actors stranded. Kiera Cass is really really good at saying no. 
 And what drove me big time crazy is that these people are supposed to be royals yet they are treated like everybody else. They would have been better as just any other rich family than royals. Kiera, have you done no research? This has been a huge issue throughout the whole series, and it only got worse as we went along. And that's only one of like, 8400 things that were just thrown in for the hell of it. I'm pretty sure I've said it before, and I'll say it again. (Or I'll say it for the first time in case I haven't actually said it.) Kiera Cass is literally a 13-year-old who has no idea how the world or anything in it works. 
 I'm only giving three stars because I'm basically satisfied (as in as satisfied as I can be with such a mediocre series) with the ultimate outcome. But seriously, this series is poorly written, and any potential it started with quickly evaporated and never reappeared. And I feel bad because Kiera Cass seems like the type to think her books are actually the next Harry Potter series when they most definitely are not. I so hope she doesn't write a 6th book in this series because I'm terrified I won't be able to keep from torturing myself once again. 
 Question for the masses: why do we continue to read series we do not like at all? Someone explain the psychology of this to me.