I wanted to love this book and maybe could have, but it ended up taking me almost three weeks to read it. Partly because it was over 800 pages and also partly because I started a new teaching job in a new position so I'm pretty stressed out and the last thing I think to do is pick up the book when I get home from school. 
 This one was probably the easiest to read as far as writing style goes. I could definitely notice a difference in Marissa Meyer's writing style as this series went along. It became more polished and refined in her word choice and sentence structure. 
 I also liked seeing the multiple story lines again like we got to see in Cress. I'm glad the story didn't focus as much on Winter as a character (like the other books focused a little more closely on their title's characters did) because I found Winter less interesting as a character compared to the others. Her madness just didn't "do it" for me so to speak. Jacin, her love interest, also didn't really have me hooked. I don't really appreciate weak women "needing" strong men to take care of them. Maybe it's the feminist in me, but Winter's weakness compared to Scarlet's strength infuriated me at times. That said, I had definitely missed hearing from Scarlet's character in the previous book, Cress, so loved seeing her take more of a front seat at certain points in this book. To piggy back off these ideas, the Cress-Thorne shipping kept happening for me in this book... I love Thorne's combination cocky/heart throb roll and Cress' high intelligence. As much as others may not like the Scarlet-Wolf ship, I still greatly enjoyed it. Scarlet doesn't "need" Wolf so much as he needs her and I appreciated that she was strong in ways that Wolf could not be. Yes there are times in all the books where their relationship is a bit problematic, but aren't there issues in every relationship? Maybe not this extreme, (come on it is a fairy tale/fantasy retelling) but a relationship with issues nonetheless. 
 Lastly, I will say that the climactic fight scene at the end had me going a little crazy. (view spoiler)[Everyone of our "main" characters enters the throne room to try and help Cinder kill Levana. Okay, fine. But how STUPID are you?! Levana can control just about all of them (all but Cress because she is a shell and hypothetically Cinder because she has strong powers as well). But do any of them think about that?! NO! And, to make everything even better, in a twist of events, Levana is somehow able to control Cinder (even just for a little bit) and Wolf is somehow immune when he clearly wasn't several chapters back. WTF? I realize Thorne didn't have a choice to be there because he had been locked up before and Levana took him out to use as leverage, but all those affected by the Lunar gift should have known better than that! It nearly cost at least two people their lives! In fact, while I was reading it, I had to stop and literally say to myself, "How stupid are they?" (hide spoiler)] 
 Apart from that flaw, I enjoyed the story, but not enough so to feel like it deserves 5 stars. Had I been able to sit down with less stress in my life to read it, I think I would have appreciated it even more considering how much I enjoyed Cress. I may have to re-read this one in the future when there is less going on to see what I really think about it.