I did it. I finished a high fantasy trilogy after a long period of time. 
 Okay so basically this was an enjoyable read. My only problem was that everything could've been better and organized. By saying this I'm directing it to the plot and world building itself. 
 By the first and second book, I had a ridiculously heavy pile of unanswered questions and I was hoping that the final book will clear all of my misunderstandings and confusion. I guess it did in a way but I wasn't completely satisfied. 
 I don't know what to make of Karou. Ever since I learned that she was Madrigal by the end of the first book, my expectations for her were sky high. But to be honest, she just came out as an average character for me. I'm not saying I hated her but I just felt like all she did was resurrect different people or "creatures", in her case, and be the girl that knew everything and everyone. She didn't have that bang I tend to look for in main characters. Her relationship with Akiva was interesting but there came a point where I gave up on them. In the first and second book, I was completely stripped away of any Akiva-Karou moments because they had different conflicts with one another. I understand that it needed to happen but their lack of interaction just didn't do it for me. I was hoping that by the third book, it would wake up my thoughts - to be blunt, I was completely bored and even forgot that they were a thing until like after 300 pages. 
 "That he had found her, and that he had found her again. And.... dear gods and stardust... yet again. Let that be the last time he ever needed to come looking for her." 
 "I'll make it easy for you, she thought, her face pressed to his heartbeat. I'll be right here."" 
 It was this line that sparked my emotions again and it became continuous already, which I'm really happy about because I honestly had enough with the whole "this wasn't a time to fall in love" bullcrap that was constantly repeated over and over again because they were obviously way past that stage already!! The point of delaying it was so irrelevant and pointless in the story. 
 Going back to what I said earlier; I wished that the story itself was organized in terms of how the plot was evolving. I did find it a bit messy because it was up and down all throughout. The introduction of new characters, the different changes in setting - all of it was scattered in every chapter and I wasn't a fan of it because it didn't make me connect to any of the things that was happening. Whenever I would be introduced to a new story arc of a certain character, it would fade in the next pages and never brought up ever again. Like Liraz and Ziri for example, I already sensed something was bound to happen between the both of them by the start-middle ish of the book but then nothing really happened until Ziri died and was resurrected by Karou. To wrap this portion up, I felt that the entire book was purely action; less interaction and development between the characters. It was more descriptive than narrative. 
 Mik and Zuzana were very entertaining and I absolutely loved their relationship. In a world full of angels and chimaera's; they still had their human problems in the book and it was nice to read that they weren't completely sucked into the whole world itself. I admired Zuzana's loyalty to Karou but I absolutely loved Mik's patience with Zuze. 
 "To my sweet barbarian." 
 ALL THE FEELS. 
 In terms of the ending, I don't know what to say about the sudden plot twist about Akiva. I already was not of a fan of how there were barely any major interactions between him and Akiva; the last thing I needed was for him to go somewhere and leave Karou all alone. But it did happen and the epilogue only stated that they were basically in a long distance relationship. Am I satisfied? No. Do I hate it? Kind of. 
 I don't mean for this to sound a negative review but I still did enjoy it. There were factors that made it interesting but again, it lacked a couple of things on my part. The writing was on-point though, not gonna lie. Laini Taylor chooses the perfect words for the perfect moment all the time giving the book more depth and perspective.