I loved Cemetery Boys, I liked Sunbearer Trials, I don't like this. The plot is ridiculously repetitive, the characters have all become cardboard cut outs of themselves from the first book, and the story is so painfully predictable that's there's no pay off for sticking it out to the end. Moral lessons reflecting on society are badly woven in and there's absolutely no chemistry between Teo and Aurelio anymore. Everyone is just kinda there and stuff happens. This book was immensely underwhelming and disappointing. I'm left wondering what the point of anything was and it worries me about Aidan's upcoming continuation of Cemetery Boys because I'm honestly not sure he knows how to write a sequel. For a book about the end of the world, this was shockingly boring, and I expected a lot more than I got.