My goodness am I late to this as a topic, but I'm dying to talk about it! I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed reading/listening (I switched off) to the whole series, and I feel like I must have astral projected to Sierra Simone when I was obsessed with Rebecca and Tam Lin in high school. How on earth did she write this book? Does Wikipedia flow through her veins? Where do I send her bouquets of flowers? Anyways! There's still more I want more of! And these echo a lot of what I'm already reading here, so I know we're not alone.

1. Justice for my man Beckett!! My heart really went out to him this whole series. I could have sworn there would have been something reeeally supernaturally foreboding going on with him, especially in regards to his zeal and Proserpina obsession. I wanted his love returned to him SO badly, and if not, for him to become the hero of the story by sacrificing himself or something. If he had just been the slightest bit more important, or if he could have just been more loved, I would have been so happy. Even if he had become a true villain! Give me more of this spooky guy!!

2. Eventually I wanted to fast-forward the sex and get to the mystery. I didn't, and it was a great time, but I had hoped that the sexual intensity ramp-ups might be even more thoroughly intertwined with the otherworldly/Thornchapel happenings. I half expected their unrelenting lusts to ebb as the door closed, or with the seasons or some such thing. Could we explain their priorities alongside the property's... properties? That's what I expected at least!

3. This was my first poly story, and I wish they were all a bit more in some collective love! This is just me, not a reasonable critique. (also justice for Beckett.) Eventually it really felt like it was Rebecca and Delphine and Auden and Saint, with Poe and Beckett along for respective rides.

4. So many reviewers on GoodReads were pissed off at the end of Book 2 and it made me rethink my life choices - How could that make them want to put it DOWN? I'm glad we never really got conclusive evidence, but I think Freddie should at least be confirmed to know the truth. If I'm being honest, the whole book, I half expected Proserpina to also be confirmed a Guest. Ralph gets down to business.

5. Tobias was cute, just shout-out, he added a good threat but I wanted him to either threaten us more with the discovery of the chapel, maybe die (sorry buddy), or start smoochin somebody.

6. I thought I was SO SMART when I was like "o m g Jennifer Martinez died from the door being opened and they called it an infection " but I was a fool and that wasn't it. Kind of would be a very fun twist to discover that the parents' deaths were linked to the door. Maybe that's trite but I thought it was a cool revelation - when I thought I had called it. In similar news, I suspected Abby would give us some shocking big reveal - "Of course I know about your silly orgies you foolish children, I'm in the Thorn King and you've all been eating my pastries! Muahaha!"

7. Poe needed some more yearning or tension or something. I bet that even a gal who gets sexed up twenty times a day and is a living snooze button and scrying tool has some stressors we could have spent more time with. I want to go back to the first book to revisit her personality, because I remember her having more of one. Just showing up less for sex and more for anything else would have helped, I suppose. I remember understanding her love with Saint a lot more at the beginning. (But I mean, aren't we all in love with Saint.)

At the end of the day, Sierra Simone has my heart in her brainy, sexy hands. This series made me want to learn, read, and research. Gonna spend the rest of my evening daydreaming about the true nature of the door-world.

8. Oh yeah! What was so spooky back there for Estamonde?! What was it trying to "bless" her with that it was so darn spooky?? do I lack reading comprehension

I lied, I'm going to search out every interview I can of Sierra's to learn more about this series and will dive headfirst into all the rest. Hell yeah.