I'm not entirely sure how to review this novel without doing it book-report-style or spilling spoilers like water. I will just make a few statements. Whether I'm in the minority or majority in agreement on how the series ended, I thought it was the correct ending. Everyone was team Jack or team Ramsay, and we needed to be team Lexi. 
 The note from Linde felt familiar to me. I've been in that position several times over: sell out by writing what the readers want, what you wish your characters would do, or close your eyes, take a leap, write what the characters want, and suffer reader outrage. 
 As a writer, I thought the story direction was perfect. It was the culmination of three books, after all. Linde gave us many twists and turns and false stops and starts, but I always knew she would go there. If she had went a different direction, I would have been disappointed for her characters. 
 As a woman... inside I am a screaming ball of UGHHHHHHH!!!!! I know from experience how a relationship can tear you to shreds, leave you numb... ruin you. I had my own personal Jack- the one that doesn't respect you but you are drawn towards even though he is toxic to your very being. I know there is redemption in love but only through change. What it comes down to is this, if it doesn't feel right, if you're having second thoughts, it's not about taking a leap of faith or a lack of commitment- it's just not right for you.... but it will be right for someone else. Don't waste your life doing what is right for others... and if someone comes back into your life spewing change, make them prove it... with time. 
 Thank you, Linde, for the emotional torture. Some people read the series for the train wreck quality of the storyline. But others, like me, read because of the parallel within their own lives, a story that showed how you lose yourself to another human being and the only fix is to fix yourself by growing up. 
 (view spoiler)[ I think it should have ended at the coffee shop where it all began, not a random hotel room covered in candles. I apologize for writing in my head what I thought should have been. But the story began at a coffee shop and it should have ended there. Jack handing Lexi a black coffee at the same place they met, the place they went off course, and then giving her the promise ring... that's what I would have written. (hide spoiler)]