House of Flame and Shadow

Sorry, but I'm actually not impressed with this one. I love sjm and her books. They're not well written master pieces, but they are fun! However, this one felt waaayy too rushed in some parts, dragged in others, and had too many inconsistencies in of itself, with the other CC books, and with her other 2 series. The writing was choppy, especially at the beginning with all the POVs at once, and the pacing never let you get into the story until much later of the novel. You can tell this was rushed and wasn't edited very well. In the end, if you're a die hard fan of sjm... you'll either love it or struggle through it lol. If you weren't a super fan of Bryce before this... you still won't be lol. Hopefully the next book will have better luck! (I gave it 3 even with struggling, bc I still love the idea behind it all. I may not have loved it, but it was ok enough to enjoy by skim reading).

I have read each of her series twice now and this book just put Crescent City above ACOTAR for me. Spoilers: the fact that the Throne of Glass world is mentioned just makes me that much more excited for the future! Unlike her usual style of slowly building to the last 100 pages, this book kicks off quickly and keeps throwing major events at you the whole time and let's you down easy in the end. This to me, is her best work so far.

This series is probably my favorite of all SJM's books and honestly I'm hoping for a fourth book for some more Bryce and Hunt action! although this book feels like an ending to the series I do think there could have been better character culmination. I didn't end the book saying goodbye to them fully if you get what I mean, but it was still a great book