This book was supposed to be the final instalment in this series, and I have a lot of thoughts, so this is going to be a longer review. 

 

The pacing of this book is all over the place. They were training for this ‘war’ for like a month? But we rarely read about them training, planning, or strategizing. There are multiple characters that’s been introduced in previous books that barely get any ‘screen’ time, if they’re not a love interest, ex love interest or Kenji, they barely exist in Juliettes world. 

 

There is a lot of telling, and not much showing. We see it all from Juliettes perspective, which is so limiting when all she does is telling the reader that she’s been training hard and that her and the survivors of Omega Point are planning how to take over North America. Aaand the only other situation we see for most of the book is Warner, and how "incredibly beautiful" he is. 

 

In the first book this girl just wanted to live, she wanted to survive, wanted to break free from the asylum, but now suddenly, she’s always wanted to destroy the Reestablishment?? I can’t blame Adam for being confused, as the reader I’m literally in her head, and I’m confused. 

 

And don’t even get me started on Adam. I had no strong feelings about who Juliette should end up with, but its incredibly cheap to change his character to make Warner an ‘obvious right choice’ for her. He’s not even recognisable anymore. And it quite frankly annoys me how he is so violently upset that she doesn’t want to be with him anymore, instead of, I don’t know, BEING UPSET THAT EVERYONE IS SIDING WITH THE GUY WHO TRIED TO KILL HIM??? Everyone just forgot about that huh. 
 

The book is 400 pages long, but it isn’t till the last 30 pages where the actual war starts. And once it started Juliette had no issues to get through all of the highly trained soldiers singlehandedly, and kill the Supreme Commander with what felt like no issues at all (like, seriously? Who the hell would stay and keep shooting their target when they can see the bullets just bounce of her skin?? Is he stupid?) 

 

In conclusion: the book was so dragged out, and somehow still made the ending feel rushed. The world building, after tree books, is still incredibly weak, and the plot that could’ve been a cool dystopian story with politics and rebellion is overshadowed by badly written romance and dull dialogue. 

 

God forbid Juliette talks to another woman, god forbid we leave morally grey characters as morally grey (of course Warner needed to have ‘reasons’ behind all his bad actions that made him 'no longer horrible'). 

 

I honestly can’t believe this series is as popular and high rated as it is. This is not deserving of a 4.35 average star rating. I feel like booktok has been lying to me. Not even middle school me would’ve liked this bullshit.