My Reaction in a Nutshell: 
 I don't want this series to end! 
 The Long Version: 
 The Lunar Chronicles is one of my favorite young adult series. Now I know that you're probably wondering how a series with consistent 4 star ratings can be one of my favorites. The thing is, 4 stars is a good rating from me. It is hard to keep me super excited about a series of books, and Marissa Meyer was able to keep me interested the whole time. 
 Winter is action packed and high risked. For a quick refresher of what happened in Cress, Scarlet (after being tortured for weeks by a demon child and being forced to chop off her own finger) is beeing kept captive by Levana and is now one of Winter's "pets." Winter tells Scarlet that she doesn't use her gift and therefore is going crazy. Speaking of crazy, Wolf is going insane with tension wanting to be reunited with his alpha-mate, Scarlet. Thorne lost his eyesight, but Dr. Eland gave him some drops to help cure it. Dr. Eland contracted letumosis and died shortly after admitting that he was Cress' father. Cress joined the crew and they all kidnapped Kai. Also, Jacin kind of turned the crew into Sybil who Cinder tortured to insanity. And those are just the highlights from Cress. 
 Winter is packed with even more insanity and characters. Loosely based on the story of Snow White, Meyer created a captivating tale about friendship, survival, and trust. I loved all the new characters as well as the old characters we've come to know and love. 
 Meyer is able to write a series with a diverse cast who aren't all cookie-cutter images of each other. Each has a distinct personality with various hopes, dreams, ambitions, and fears. And Thorne is still sarcastic and flirtatious as ever. 
 I'm not going to lie, I saw a lot of parallels to Fairest in this book. Which makes Levana's rule so terrible. Other characters have experienced similar things (burning alive, hopeless infatuation, falling for their guard), but yet they didn't turn out quite so evil. 
 Overall, it was a nice conclusion to the series and I'm sad to let these characters go. I'm not ready yet for this series to end! 
 Some of my favorite quotes: 
 Page 55: 
 Cress: Is there anything else you need? 
 Wolf: For time to move faster. 
 Cress: I meant more like...food, or something. 
 Pages 78-79: 
 Wolf: She shot me in the arm once. 
 Narrator: This confession was said with as much tenderness as if Scarlet had given him a bouquet of wildflowers rather than s bullet wound. 
 Page 80: 
 Kai: They're incredibly rare. What is it doing here? 
 Cinder: I'm pretty sure Thorne stole it. 
 Kai: Ah. Of course. 
 ***TRIGGER WARNINGS: mind control, forced suicide, war, mentions of R, death, murder, imprisonment