I was annoyed that for the first time, Smith was recapping the previous books, but it didn't just take place in the beginning. No, throughout the book she kept summarizing past events which was really distracting from the actual present. Why would anyone read the fourth book before reading the first three? It just seems silly to include the constant recaps. 
 Otherwise, this one was better than all the others. It was actually a bit exciting and I did want to know what was going to happen next unlike with the other three. The details were satisfactory enough so that I could effectively picture what was happening. I can tell that Smith improved her writing by a lot since the first book. 
 However, the ending wasn't what I had hoped for. As soon as I read those words, I really didn't care about the last few pages. It was too unreal, and much too happy-go-lucky. That was the largest disappointment with this fourth book.