Mind blown. That really sums it up. Here's something I wrote on my review of Days of Blood & Starlight: "Laini Taylor is a masterful writer with beautiful and vivid writing style and I have no idea how she came up with such a complex and interesting story." Yes, that is even truer now! Dreams of Gods & Monsters made the story even more complex and all the backstory, wow. I can't tell how much I love this story and how in awe I am. Like, literally I just can't do it in English, I would need you to understand my native language and see me when I explain how much I love this. 
 I think this was a perfect conclusion to this magical trilogy. It added so much more to the story and made it even better (and I didn't think that was possible after Days of Blood & Starlight). It tied all the loose ends, but there was a promise of more great things to come - "It was not a happy ending, but a happy middle - at last, after so many fraught beginnigs." I kind of want to know what's going to happen with-that-thing-that-I'm-not-going-to-mention-because-of-spoilers, but I kind of don't. I'm happy with the happy middle. 
 Thank you, Laini Taylor, for creating this beautiful story, these amazing characters and the realistic relationships between them. Karou, Akiva, Liraz, Ziri, Mik, Zuze and co., I'll really miss them all!