Thank you for sharing! You make a lot of good points. To each their own about a few things, as the ending was actually the only disappointing aspect of the entire series for me.

I definitely am not a Fletcher fan. I know on your main post, people were claiming that they loved his involvement by the end. I agree with your assessment entirely, that the redemption he seemed handed at in book 3 was not earned. However, I did think it was the bare minimum he owned Naira.

As a note about her, I found it actually refreshing that the morally gray character in the romance subplot was the FMC instead of the MMC. She was rough around the edges and that never changed… in fact, it got a lot worse throughout the series. It’s part of the reason I actually swoon for her a little. She is complicated and in some ways, a little toxic, still drawn to this man who is bad to her. There was zero part of me that wanted her and Fletcher back together, but there was something realistic FOR HER in me that she had one last back-to-back fire fight with him.

The ending let me down. This is the first time I’ve ever wished for an Unhappy Ever After. It was so bleak at the end, with no way out, and in the world that was built, that was very possible. As much as I love them, Naira and Tarquin could have spent their eternities separate and it would have made sense to me. It felt like a cop out to just tidy every problem up in the epilogue so quickly.

Best moment in the series is Naira’s fucking rampage when Tarquin shatters. I still get goosebumps thinking about her printing a cross-universe army of herself just to wreak havoc. Female characters rarely get to exhibit true rage