2.5 
 This was a really disappointing end to a really great series. I feel like it had so much potential and then the main character, instead of growing, regressed and her actions were unbelievable to me. (view spoiler)[ She was mad for a book and a half at Dorian for failing to give her full disclosure over the iron crown, and then she goes and learns that his greatest dreams have been fulfilled, he is the father of her children, and she then goes and leaves them in the human world and doesn't tell him even though she decides to get back together with him. Gee, I wonder who is going to get hurt at the end of this - oh wait, Eugine will probably find some way to make this all about her (like her excuse that she had "mentally" broken up with Dorian so therefore (even though he was unaware of said split) it was perfectly fine to start sleeping with Kiyo again). (hide spoiler)] 
 I am also a bit confused about what happened to Kiyo's character. At first he was all about saving the one life, even at the cost of others (he did not want to have Katrice killed even though that would have been the best way to stop a war, he was horrified at Eurgine holding a gun to a 15 year old's head) and then all of a sudden he was willing to go out of his way to murder two infants. 
 This book just really did not come together for me, the characters did not grow or mature, in fact I think some of them were worse of then they were in the first book. The best parts of this book were Volusian and Jasmine (although her personality has also gone through a total 180). I was sad to see Volusian go, but because this is the final book, at least he achieved some measure of peace. 
 Overall, I kind of wish that I had not read the last book in this series, I think it kind of ruined the rest of it for me.