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 I love the Fairyland-series more than I can coherently put into words. 
 That said, I both eagerly anticipated and sadly dreaded the release of its final installment. 
 Needless to say, Ms. Valente did not disappoint. 
 The book picks up exactly where The Boy Who Lost Fairyland left of. Fairyland's in a turmoil, and September, the perhaps not so reluctant queen, and her merry band of friends must set out on a race against all of Fairyland's former rulers in search of the Heart of Fairyland. 
 The story is everything I expected of the Grande Finale. There is action, romance, whimsical encounters with beloved characters from all the previous books as well as fantastical settings, ingenious creatures and heaps of humour. 
 The real joy, for me, throughout this series has always been Valentes beautiful prose. I absolutely LOVE the inherent, effortless feminism which shines from every detail, I LOVE the numerous Shakespeare allusions, being a rather obsessive Shakespeare nerd myself (I read this on my commute and found my travelling companions greatly startled at my outburst over "pursued by a stoat"). 
 I adore the imagination, the creativity and the loving attention to detail put into these books. 
 The ending was just heartwarmingly perfect and my already much abused aforementioned fellow commuters actually had to suffer witnessing a tear or two. 
 I fervently hope to someday meet September, her Wyveary, Saturday (view spoiler)[ Oh how he described their wedding ceremony!! The feels!! (hide spoiler)] Blunderbuss and the whole crazy bunch of loveable rascals again! 
 This series will definitely make it to my alltime favourites and I sense a reread-a-thon in the not so distant future. 
 Farewell, September. I shall miss you!