This book pretty much ruined the series for me and made me rethink the rating I gave Take This Regret. 
 My problems? Oh, there were many. 
 This is an edited review because I finished reading this at 3AM a few nights ago and I was so angry and disgruntled that if I had tried to write a review then it would have been a mess. So I took the time to get my mind right so I could really tell you all why this book - which so many people are giving 5 Stars, is only getting 2 Stars from me. 
 First I'd like to tell you that I did enjoy the first two books in this series, but as I mentioned earlier, after reading this one and seeing how these characters did not grow or change or become stronger (they actually regressed), I am rethinking that. And I hate that. 
 Now onto my issues. 
 First you have to know that I HATE weak people. Mentally weak woman who cry all the time and crumble - yeah, not my thing. Now I have read a few such characters who have gained strength and grown and I enjoy that journey. I have also read some that have moments of weakness or mental illness but who overcome. IMO, in this book, Elizabeth doesn't do that. Actually, I think she needed to be committed to a facility and I got angry at everyone around her for not doing exactly that. 
 The thing that happens, the big tragedy, yes, it's terrible. But I just don't feel that a mentally healthy person would sink into a 4 month depression over it. Not as bad as hers got. Another sign of weakness was the fact that NO ONE was calling her out for being - at this point in the story - clinically depressed. "Oh, she's sad." No. She was in need of professional help and not once is it even MENTIONED. 
 Most of my issues involve spoilers. The first one is about the handling of the tragedy: (view spoiler)[Losing a child midway threw pregnancy is devastating. Having to give birth to the stillborn child is also devastating. I am lucky I never lost a pregnancy or a child that way, but I know people who have. Many people who have. I know people who lost full term pregnancies during childbirth - and only one of those women got even remotely this depressed and she had depression issues before and SOUGHT HELP. That's my problem with Elizabeth. Everyone just allows her to shut down, they enable her behavior and allow her to still show this deep spiral to her young child and nobody tries to make her seek out help. Not one person. And with the way she was acting even before we knew EXACTLY what happened I was giving her some benefit of the doubt because honestly I was expecting it to be worse with how she was acting. I expected Christian to have done something to cause the miscarriage or for her to be unable to have children ever again or both. But no. She has a second trimester miscarriage. It wasn't Christian's fault. It wasn't anyone's fault. It was a terrible thing that happened to THEM. It is something that, although rare and tragic, should not cause a healthy person to shut down for months upon months. And she does shut down. She selfishly thinks that because Christian didn't act the exact same way she did that he somehow didn't love their baby? Honestly aside from him enabling her downward spiral and walking away when she acted like a child, his reactions and grief were almost exactly right. And then she screams that she hates him? Very immature. But he was no saint. I agree with how he himself processed his grief but he should have stayed and made her better and he shouldn't have been allowing her to show this depression to Lizzie. So he's not perfect here by a long shot. (hide spoiler)] 
 So yeah. *sigh* 
 I'm a very empathetic person and I hated being so angry with a character who was in so much pain and who had suffered so much but I just was. 
 The way it was written with time jumps and almost playing the tragedy like a mystery also bugged me quite a bit. Just spit it out already. Be chronological. This back and forth to spread the misery throughout the entire book made the not so miserable parts stale for me. Because I know how mentally unstable these two people are and how fragile the foundation of the relationship is now. 
 You gain strength through adversity. You show what you are made of as a couple and as an individual in the tough times. I just didn't end up liking these people who, at one time, meant something to me. And that makes me unhappy.