I gave this 3 stars... but I lowered it to 2....

Definitely not my favorite out of the 3. I found this book to be a little slow and meandering. This is one of those books that feels like a whole lot of preparing/planning for one big scene at the end.... and I'm not usually fond of books like that. I also didn't feel as connected to the characters as I did in Gemina and Illuminae. I found that the romances/couplings just did nothing for me and I felt very detached from the characters and the relationships between them. But AIDAN saved it for me.... I will always love AIDAN. Also, this book was painfully descriptive at times. I found myself easily skimming full paragraphs that weren't even pertinent to the storyline. I didn't feel this way with the other two books... or maybe I just cared more. This is the shortest book in the trilogy but it felt like the longest. I really did like how this trilogy ended though... so I can definitely give it that. Illuminae in my opinion is the best book in the series and will always be a favorite of mine.