Friends, this is not it.

I hate getting super excited for a book based on its premise, and then the whole thing topples like a scaffolding of playing cards when read.

This should have been a good story, but it wasn't. The relationships didn't resonate. The adventures came the closest to actually being interesting, but still fell short of real points of interest. The side-plot of Spirit Freedom Fighters never got off the ground. So many of the characters were just cutout caricatures with 2 catchphrases and nothing else.

The end was just... weird. Nothing was resolved, everything fell apart into chaos, and the final "surprise" just made me scoff and shake my head.

Definitely a disappointment.