This book was a good ending to the trilogy, however wasn't the best I thought but wasn't bad either, all in all was a good read, I also enjoyed the adventure it took me on which was fun to read.

We've reached the end of the True Born Trilogy and I'm a little surprised at how I'm feeling about this final book. Honestly, it didn't come across as an ending to me. More like another chapter with much left to be reconciled. My emotions are so divided on whether I liked how everything ended or whether I didn't. Squarely in the three star middle is exactly where I'm at right now.

There's still so much about this world and it's dynamics that I don't fully understand but wish I did. Even with the author trying to have the characters explain things I often felt lost, rereading and trying to gain better comprehension but failing to. The mythology behind the True Borns still alludes me, and even with Alastair and the revelations he brought I'm still utterly confused. Everything revealed regarding Margot and Lucy didn't seem to come together in the end either, and the resolution regarding the Plague seemed rushed at the end.

As for Lucy and Jared, I wasn't much of a fan of their romance and this final book didn't convince me to change my mind. Jared comes across more as possessive than as someone who truly loves and wants to protect Lucy and Lucy plays the same hot and cold game she continually accuses Jared of. This final book doesn't add much emotional depth to their dynamic, instead it only furthers the idea that their bond is mostly through sexual chemistry. It's an immature relationship and the way it resolves in the end seemed out of tune with the way their relationship had been carried out through the three books. Individually Lucy herself really didn't grow much either, still having others fight her battles and sliding more towards not knowing who she is without Margot, which honestly is sad because she had seemed to grow more into her own person in the last book.

As far as side characters go, I was saddened I didn't get to know much more about any of the other True Borns at all. I'm still left scratching my head, wondering what Storm's endgame really was and who he really was. But my biggest sadness has to do with Alastair and Margot. Alastair became a favorite of mine in the last book and I was really looking forward to getting to know more about him in this book. Unfortunately his character gets mostly tarnished in this book and then discarded, which is a real shame. The potential for romance was realized with Lucy, but not at all in the way I had hoped. And Margot just became a shell of a character instead of the fully realized person I was expecting. There was all this talk of her having secrets but the reveal with Resnikov was shocking at best, inappropriate at worst. After what he did to her in the last book I would never consider that love and wish none of their dynamic had been included in this book.

The author does have great writing skills, and the way she writes made me want to keep reading even when I got annoyed with the characters, which is saying something. I was always impressed with the way scenes and atmosphere were detailed and those moments were some of the best parts of the book and would draw me in better than anything else. It's mostly for that I kept the three star rating. Because even though the ending felt rushed, and the characters never developed like I had hoped, the writing still pulled me in, I kept reading and it was an adventure.

Overall I did enjoy this series, but now that the final book is done it's leaving the impression of being unfinished. I think there were so many great ideas that never got fully fleshed out, or characters that weren't wholly realized but I'm glad I read through the entirety of it. Getting to the end of a series is satisfying, even if it's not how I imagined it would turn out. The True Born Trilogy was a unique concept and I'm left wishing there was just one more book, if only to alleviate that tension of questions left unanswered.