Holy crap. 
 I don't even know what just happened. What... what... I just... WHAT??? 
 I don't even have to question the rating of this book. I just know it's an automatic 5 stars. This book was absolutely amazing. Sure, Todd's voice felt a little off and all in the beginning (and that is literally my only issue about the entire book), but THIS BOOK WAS INCREDIBLE. Like, REALLY INCREDIBLE. 
 I felt that the dual-perspective between Todd and Viola was much needed. It brought dynamic to the characters. And since Todd and Viola were basically almost always separated throughout the book, except for 10% of it, the dual points of view helped showcase the two different sides of the war. Plus, it really helped to tell what the two were feeling about each other and their questions about what happened to the other. 
 Todd had extreme growth in this book, as did Viola. We see Todd's despair at losing Viola, and then the consequences for his despair. I won't spoil anything, but let me tell you, this book made me panic about Todd. This book made me feel all sorts of random emotions for him, most of them along the lines of "todd pls don't die ok" or "OMG NO", or "NO NO SCREW YOU MAYOR PRENTISS NO PLEASE GO AWAY K TYVM". 
 I'd say the latter was me for 50% of the book. 
 Gosh, I remember back in the days of The Knife of Never Letting Go when I thought Todd was a pretty "meh" character and when I didn't feel THAT much emotional attachment to him. Now look at the mess I am now. 
 And if Todd affected me this much, Viola basically killed my feels. Like, blown them up with a bomb. (See what I did there? No? Okay.) Mistress Coyle was so manipulative that I was just like "no you cannot hurt my bby viola you tyrant". Meanwhile Viola's rebelling (and against the rebels, no less) just to see Todd made me want to cheer her on. She grew so freaking much in this book. And even though she can be used to manipulate Todd, I feel that the two of them together is just so powerful that even that weakness is expendable. 
 There were so many plot twists in this book, most around the aforementioned Mistress Coyle. Coyle is so sneaky, I swear. She finds a way to do everything secretly: get rid of thorn in her side Viola, lead the enemies off the wrong track, sneak in a couple bombs or two, weaken the enemy... She can do it all in one fell swoop. But she's not made to be likeable, either. You can't predict Coyle. 
 Then again, there's also Mayor Prentiss. And I'm not once calling him President. 
 Prentiss is just as sneaky and manipulative as Mistress Coyle, but he might just be a slight bit less compared to Mistress Coyle. He has learned to use his Noise as a weapon, but that doesn't mean anything to the women. But nevertheless, he can still use emotions to manipulate people into getting to do what he wants. 
 No one can be trusted in this book except for our two protagonists. If someone told me to name all the antagonists in this book, I would say that everybody is an antagonist. Even the rebels against the corrupt government! Most of the time, in dystopians, the rebels are the good guys that the protagonists come to. Well, they're also evil in this book -- at least the leader of them is. 
 Overall, this was an amazing book. The ending was completely shocking, and I really, really, REALLY need to pick up Monsters of Men and finish this series off. 
 I don't want to, though. Deep inside me, I want this trilogy to keep going on forever and ever, just so I can keep reading and reading and reading. 
 SERIES REVIEWS: 
 My review of The Knife of Never Letting Go 
 AUTHOR REVIEWS: 
 My review of A Monster Calls