I'm not sure ... Either this - 4 - or 3.5 Rounded up because of my feeling at the ending! 
 I was actually dreading reading this book because I had heard people saying that this was a big disappointment. When I finished the previous two books of this series (and maybe the first, I don't remember so well) I felt PISSED. OFF. So naturally, this did not bode well. This one? Not at all. I was GRINNING. 
 Not gonna lie, through most of it I was like, what the fuck? It was a bit confusing in spaces, and so much happened and there was so much weirdness that I think "what the fuck" sums up a lot of my thoughts on it, actually. Even now, when I gave it 4 stars. 
 Some of the things that I 
 did not like 
 about this book included some aspects of the writing style e.g. "Depending on where you began the story, it was about ____." Obviously I started at the beginning. This is unnecessary. 
 The pointless racism coming from Adam and Ronan. It seemed kind of uncharacteristic and there was literally no point to it at all. Hand in hand with that is the shitty Asian stereotype that Maggie created, but I'm not surprised to be honest, as anyone who is not American through and through seems to mystify her. Blue and Gansey's 'powers' seemed stupid and pointless, and seemed to have been given to them just to make the entire group special and magical. 
 Also was the fact that the plot of all four books has been rather delicate, and this book's plot seems just as much so. The Glendower search kept getting derailed to focus on other issues, especially book two, and in this book again with the random introduction of the demon. The two seemingly major and kind of consistent plot points - Gansey and Blue being unable to kiss and the search for Glendower - were not given so much thought throughout and then suddenly blasted away within minutes of each other. (view spoiler)[Glendower is dead. Blue and Gansey kiss, Gansey dies just like that and is brought back to life just like that ... can they kiss now? Now these are done with, what is left? (hide spoiler)] Tying in with this, the whole span of this book seemed a bit rushed. So much more happened in this book than the clusterfuck that was Blue Lily, Lily Blue, and yet it was not that much bigger. So much was crammed into this book that I really thought that it could have been longer than it was. The demon was so formidable and yet ... (view spoiler)[it is killed incredibly easily and there are actually NO repercussions to the characters in the book, except 5 minutes of grief. (hide spoiler)] 
 However, 
 there were a lot of things I DID enjoy about this book, 
 things that outweighed the things I did not enjoy. Obviously I loved Ronan, apart from his racism (and Adam's). I have always loved him throughout the book. Ronan is probably one of my favourite characters of all time. I was really glad that Ronan got the relationship with Adam that he wanted. I loved the reunion and patching up of the relationship of Declan and Ronan. This was perhaps one of my favourite parts of the book, and was one of the main things that I had wanted from book one! 
 MORE LATER