Ah hell, it's finally over.

Honestly ya'll? I'm devastated to have finished this last book. This is the last series I had started to read before my own teenage life got busy and I grew up and didn't make time to read anymore.

I should have finished it when it released, but I'm happy to have finished it now.

I know, I know. “It's trash!” “I HATE Zoey!” “This is the worst series I have ever read!” yeah ya'll hate this series and yet read through them all or at least half of them!!

I think it was tied together BETTER than I expected. Every character got the ending they deserved. Do I wish more was written about them and their endings? Oh hell yeah. But I also look at this with the knowledge that I'll be reading the spinoff series next, and it picks up a little under a year after this book ended, so honestly the jump isn't much.

My favorites in the end were Aphrodite and Kalona. Lowkey I think he's got a wonderful arc, they both do. I do have a lot of love for Stevie Rae as well, and her love story with Rephaim is an important subplot in the series.

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the timeline of this pretty much as short as that of Twilight? Like for how much is packed in it, it mostly takes place over one fking school year? Or like one and a half? Maybe? I think Marked started in Fall because they talk about Heath's football games and then we're in spring now in this book. Did she ever go from a year three to a year four?? Like what the hell! I suppose a TV show (if it EVER happened) could polish that a little. Start Neferet's changing behavior with Z take place over the first year, when Stevie Rae dies year two, and by the time Thanatos takes over they're in the winter of year three or something? I know Aphrodite is meant to be two years older, but maybe she could be just one year and Shaunee (and Erin) could be the same year as Z, Stevie Rae, and Damien. That would at least allow the plot to develop much if the same way, but flow better.

All in all my final thoughts are that while I may never reread this series again, it was a huge undertaking on my part as I had to purchase what I still was missing and figure out the chronological order to read them, but they will forever live on my shelf and I will remember them fondly.

This series still has a lot of heart and a lot of love and should have it's flowers too, even if it's problematic writing would need to be resolved and reworked.

I look forward to seeing what final adventure the Nerd Herd has in store for them.