finishing this series feels like tying this trilogy up with rope and shooting it in the back of its head executioner-style. no more exposition, never-ending internal monologues, and a barebones plot. i like el but man, her narration is fuckin EXHAUSTING. this book wasn't even THAT bad but i rated it the lowest out of sheer spite. this book is the embodiment of "go girl give us nothing". for some reason el becomes an on-call enclave savior and it's revealed that no, she was not destined to become a dark lord haha that was js something her grandma made up to reverse psychology her granddaughter into being GOOD. hoe. if i was el i'd beat my bitchass grandma up for making my mom and i's lives hell. el was right to be mad at ophelia coz she's a piece of shit for frankensteining her own son, but she also should've been just as mad at deepthi. this book reads like bad fanfic of what some dim reader thought the finale would've been like. it's giving first draft (derogatory). orion was completely sidelined in the narrative, his screentime was atrocious in this book. he was BARELY there. i was starved for orion and el because they are literally the best fkin thing about this trilogy but they're not even the main part of it. the first one-star gr review of this book i found was right, el and orion are so far on the backburner of this narrative that they don't even break top 3. was the reveal of him being an evolved mawmouth cool? yes. but after that everything was so ass. i couldn't care less about el's world tour hunting mawmouths. we literally lost the plot with this one gang. this book exists on a completely different ballpark from the first two installments, in that it's infinitely Worse™. anyways, i'm finally free of this abomination of a series. insert reaction image of man breaking out of his shackles.
