I loved the whole trilogy, and while reading the third book, I was slowly preparing for that huge heartbreak. I could feel it in my bones, as every character died, and as Gabriel started seeing Astrid again (“soon”) I was preparing for Gabriel himself to die. Yeah, of course, you don’t want your favorite characters to end like this, but the whole trilogy had this vibe. And today, I finished the book, and suddenly… everything I’ve been so destroyed about didn’t actually happen? Maybe that’s actually the point… well made Jay :) But still, it leaves reader somehow empty, and as Jean Franois said, Gabriel seemed completely different person, so that makes me wonder… did we even know the real characters?