I do think I expected more from this book than I got. I had enjoyed the previous books and went into this with high expectations but it was rather predictable. I think JK and AK fell into a rather familiar pattern and as someone who has read their other work it isn’t hard to guess where they were going with this book.
The writing is, as always, very engaging. The banter is funny and insanely readable, but I was expecting the final book to go out with a bang and instead got a fizzle.

A fantastic end to the trilogy, this book had me going through all of the emotions. The characters always make me laugh, as well as give me near heart attacks and crying at the last few chapters, every damn time. An absolutely brilliant story that ties everything up beautifully.

A good start, a dip in the middle and a cheesy yet satisfying ending (and I might have even shed a little tear). Aurora's End was everything I was looking for in a YA science fiction adventure story, with plenty of action and interesting plot points that managed to interweave through time and space. The start really had me gripped, starting right on that cliffhanger from [book:Aurora Burning|40516960] which had left all of our heroes fighting for their life. Its a highly atmospheric, roller-coaster of a ride. I'll admit I did struggle a bit with Scarlet and Finn's story as there's a lot of repetition, however as this progressed it got a lot more entertaining- especially as plot points from the previous books started to come together and make sense, although I could have done with some more world building and perhaps insight into the other species aligned with the Aurora plight as they're just sort of there in the background.

In terms of characters, Tyler and Saedii had really good chemistry, and I think the story really missed a trick by eventually splitting them back up. They were infinitely more interesting together than apart. All the other main characters really go on a journey of self discovery though, and I found Zila to be another stand out. To go from this mysterious, highly intelligent woman who hides her emotions due to a traumatic childhood, she surrounds herself in this found family and realises that she doesn't need to hide her love for others. That feeling of found family, even when everyone is seperated, remains at the core of the story and I liked how it all tied together at the end - even if it was incredibly predictable. I do wish we had seen more of the Aurora legions and how they operate though, as it lessened the emotional impact somewhat by having them pop in and out of scenes later on, with Tyler in particular telling us their shared history instead of letting the reader see it.

However, overall a great series for those like myself looking to dip their toe into science fiction without too much jargon but just enough space gun slinging.

I have been a Kristoff fan since his very first book and so i had high hopes going into Aurora's End. This book did not dissapoint! It was the perfect conclusion to a series that had me on the edge of my seat. I adore this book and i highly recomend it.

Sorry to the publisher for reviewing this so late.

This book was the perfect end to a perfect series.

I smiled, I laughed, I cried and I felt content when it was over. These characters and this story is one that will live with me for a very long time.

I cannot say much without spoiling the series but everyone needs to read this series and I cannot wait to see what these two come out with next.

Squad 312 have survived against all odds. Now they have to find a way home to save the day for good.

I received a free copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

The narrative is again split between the members of the squad, this time in three different locations/times.
Because the weapon malfunctioned, most of our heroes have been flung out of time.
Scarlett, Fin and Zila find themselves trapped on a damaged vessel, near a station that is about to blow up. The pilot Nari Kim might make an ally, but only if she stops shooting at them.

Auri, Kal and his psycho father the Starslayer, are all thrown forward, and get to see first-hand what happens to the universe when the Ra'haam win.

The leader of the squad, Tyler, is alone. He knows all of his friends may well be dead, but that's not going to stop him. He will have to embrace his space pirate persona to smuggle himself back onto the Aurora Academy, and try to help them before it's too late.

I enjoyed following the adventures of the separate groups, the allies they make, and the discoveries they find. It's kinda hard to say anything without any spoilers!
It was great watching Zila come into her own, and everything she does.
Auri stepped up and finally became who she wanted to be. She had taken on the Eshvaren's training, but wasn't going to follow their rules blindly.

The not-so-good.
I felt like there was a fair bit of repetitiveness and filler (and not just the time loop ;) ).
Maybe it's because we're following three very different stories, and it's a bit necessary to repeat what's happening and why. Or maybe it's to do with the extra attention spent on various relationships. I ended up skimming some bits.

I was a bit frustrated with several parts of Auri's story.
Kal is a sweetie, but he spends the whole time being a background character, stepping up only when Auri needs his fighting prowess. He's just... nice.
The Starslayer - Auri tries so hard to keep him around, because she needs him for X reason. But then he goes and does Y, and Auri manages X by herself, as though she always knew she could.

I thought the ending to the Ra'haam conflict took an interesting turn, but then it dragged on a bit, and I was kinda wishing it'd wrap up one way or another.

Overall, I've enjoyed this series.

This was the ending I needed for the Aurora Cycle Trilogy. Kristoff and Kaufman did an amazing job wrapping up the trilogy in a way that would would satisfy most people. Loved this world from the beginning and will be rereading the trilogy again soon.

Thank you Netgalley for sending me a digital arc of this book in exchange for an honest review..

The last in the series and I was not ready!

Before I start, congratulations to whoever came up with the tagline ‘It’s about time.’ Clever on many levels. We were left on quite a cliffhanger last time so the start of this one had a lot to deal with at once. Everyone was in peril! The team has been separated and don’t know if anyone else is alive. Auri and Kal on board the Weapon with the Starslayer (…fun guy), Tyler imprisoned on his own with Saedi (Kal’s sister) and Zila, Scarlett and Fin about to be blown up. It is quite complicated.

I really liked Zila, Scarlett and Fin being caught in a temporal loop and how that concluded. I mean Zila is the best. Easily my favourite. I would have liked to see a bit more of Scarlett and Zila’s friendship and thought Fin and Nari could have had some more interesting moments too. I really liked where Tyler’s storyline was heading in the last book. In this one I liked seeing how his strategic mindset came into play, his darker future self and general independence (having to take on another squad and the base by himself!) was quite refreshing. I didn't mind his pairing with Saedi but also didn’t need it although I guess they needed it for plot purposes later. Also am I forgetting something about medical healing in this book? He’s nearly killed (a few times) then instantly making out or up on his feet…???? It was a nice parallel to the beginning of the series for Aurora to be a girl out of time again but this time with Kal with her. Kal felt quite passive but I did like the distinction and contrast with his father; Kal knew how to offer and accept love whereas his father did not.

I did like the ending especially the sort of epilogue. I’m a little confused by the Ra’heem and their ‘destruction’ through love. Surely one of the other millions of souls they consumed would have been able to teach them the importance of being able to choose? I was kind of expecting a severing of the ties and reinstatement of individuality. So I’m a little unsure if they all became stars in another system or if there are a bunch of happy plant people awkwardly hanging out elsewhere? Anyway, I’m happy (within reason) with where all the characters ended up and that most of them survived.

This is the final book in a trilogy but to be perfectly honest I felt like this should have been a four of five books series because of this it felt like there was a lot going on in this one and the ending a little rushed. There were enough characters in the squad that we could have spent a little more time with each; heck they could have had a book each!

I waited years for this series to finish and what an end it had. Throughout this entire book I was hooked, I also couldn't expect what would happen next. Beautifully executed and wonderfully summed up the series

The humour in this novel was definitely the selling point and kept me going, I did struggle a bit at first to get into it - perhaps as it had been a bit of a while since I’d read the series! Great characters and definitely a wild ending that I did not expect.

An enjoyable and equally exciting culmination to this series. The final instalment was fast-paced and full of those shocking twists we've come to love in this series. My favourite characters mostly stayed at the top for me and the way they worked and didn't work together floated my reading boat. Much love over all at the end of this series.

A throughly enjoyable conclusion to a throughly enjoyable series! Although not as ambitious as the Illuminae Files, this series took the fun space opera, sci-fi elements and increased the fun factor. I thought this wrapped everything up really well and in a satisfying way. Every plot point was addressed and the character arcs completed. I really enjoyed that this book brought something unexpected to the series and that's not something that's always possible. Some of the tropes were typical sci-fi stuff (trapped in the past, trapped in the future, groundhog day) but I liked the way it didn't try to be anything other than it was. My only criticism was that the best thing about this series is the dymanic between our six core my characters and we got very little of that when they were all spilt up for most of the book. I enjoy the romantic elements but to me the best quality is the found family and that's why this wasn't a 5 star read for me. I also found that everyone seemed to forgive each other too quickly; where was the confrontation between Kal and Aurora after the emotional end of book 2? I think that it was forgotten in favour of tieing up the plot in a neat little bow.
So overall this was a really good conclusion to a series was really good fun!

This book was the perfect y ending to the Aurora Cycle trilogy. There were plot twists on plot twists and the end had me in absolute tears. Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman have done it again with another fantastic read!

Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff have done it again. Aurora's end is a beautifully written heart-breaking fantastic ending to this series with an amazing conclusion. I really enjoyed this read and you do go on a journey with this book, from the character growth to the magical elements of timetravel.

I'm excited to go back and listen to the full casted audiobook.

Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for the e-arc.

Aurora's End continues Amie and Jay storytelling ability to break your heart and then put's it all back together. All the while the characters are dealing with drama, danger and revelations.

There are several OMG moments in Aurora's End when connections are made and everything starts to make more sense. One of my favourite aspects of Aurora's End was the section regarding the loop. Don't want to say any more as I don't want to spoil anything.

I also enjoyed the character growth in all the main characters. Especially when it comes to the romance department.

The ending took me by surprise and I am still not sure how I feel about it. But overall I enjoyed how it all comes together, it was never boring.

My rating for Aurora End is 4.5 out of 5.

I’m a broken mess, that’s it, I can’t take no more , it’s just too much for me. Aurora's End has such heart and I am going to be on the biggest book slump now, I’ve no idea what the hell is going to pull me out of this one ! i suppose I should actually review the book and not my heartbroken soul, the story is clever, action-filled and fun , it neatly draws all the threads together and ties up the events of the series. The end is heartwarming and maybe too perfect but surely they deserve it. I mean I deserve it as a reader, for such an anxiety filled read (that’s probably just me who gets panicked during reading books ha ha) Basically this is a fantastic and fitting end to the series, though it breaks my heart to say it. I can’t wait for the next team up of Kaufman and Kristoff

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion

Let me just start off by saying that this was one of the best books i´ve read this year. The wait for it was worth every second and I´m so happy that I got the opportunity to read it. This book was a roller-coaster of emotions to say the least. I cried, I laughed, I feared for the characters, I loved with them and I lived so many things through their eyes. It´s full of action, heartbreak and plot twists, but full of love as well, all kinds of it. I leave this book torn that the series is over, but happy that it ended the way it did. Definetely a bittersweet read, but I wouldn´t have it any other way.

I received a free copy of this book in return for an honest review. Many thanks to Oneworld Publications and NetGalley for the opportunity.

It was a long, long wait. In book publishing time it was only two and a half years from the first book in the trilogy to the last, but in reader year it’s been a lifetime since Tyler Jones rescued Aurora Jie Lin O’Malley from a 200 year sleep in stasis, in the process missing his opportunity to pick himself a crack squadron. Instead he was presented with a bunch of misfits no-one else wanted to work with. If you don’t know what I am talking about then you need to stop right here and go read the first two books as there are spoilers ahead for books #1 and #2.

For the rest of us, book #2 Aurora Burning ended on a monster cliffhanger, with the intrepid heroes of Squadron 312 split up and left in three separate life-threatening situations. Book #3 starts with a bang as Scarlett, Finian and Zila are flung backwards in time to a point where Terrans and Betraskans are at war. Auri, and Kal are flung forward to a galaxy overwhelmed by the Ra’haam with a only handful of galactic survivors left alive. In the present, Tyler, alone, must to try to save the Aurora Academy from a massive explosion which will kill the rulers of almost every species in the galaxy and leave the defence against the Ra’haam in tatters.

Though the trilogy is named for Aurora (both girl and Academy), she has never dominated the action. Every squad member has been given page time. Every squad member has played an essential role. Even the chirpy, handheld computer Magellan, has had part to play. Aurora herself is a character of contrasts. Small but powerful, young but very old, fragile but wielding immense strength. The girl out of time, chosen among the thousands of passengers on the Hadfield to carry the power of the Eshvaren and save the galaxy but still won’t let a swear word pass her lips. Of all the characters in the squadron, though, I admit, I loved Zila the most. Kaufman and Kristoff managed to take this character from emotionally closed to heart-wrenchingly caring in so few words and details. It was a master class in character development. “I am not feeling nothing.” Five words that broke my heart.

The Aurora Cycle is all about time: time travel, time loops, the girl out of time, even Aurora’s extended timespan in the Echo, but it is also about memory, the pull of the past against the future, the Eshvaren: long dead beings leaving memories all over the galaxy, Aurora’s memories of her family, the Academy and it’s commemorative statues of the founders and instructions passed from leader to leader, and then there is the Ra’haam. The blue flower that both preserves and destroys all those it touches, which will always be, in my mind, a forget-me-not.

And so to the grand finale. The moment we have been waiting for, the epic conclusion of a three book saga. Sadly, after the monumental cliffhanger to Aurora Burning and the literal race against time, it just felt anti-climactic. I couldn’t quite get to grips with the metaphysical nature of some of the imagery. The losses didn’t feel like deep losses and the wins didn’t feel feel like epic wins. So, though it was a perfectly good ending with all the different story strands neatly tied up in a bow, it just left me feeling a little flat. Having said that, I have thoroughly enjoy this series. I loved the characters, the romances were interesting and I’m sure I will be rereading this series down the line.

Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff have knocked it out of the park again with this fantastic gut wrenching, heartbreaking finale of the Aurora series. Everything there is to love about this formidable duo's writing is back in force in this captivating culmination of Squad 312s adventures.

Fantastic characters, a well developed and twisty plot, plenty of action and of course a multitude of pages which will have you grabbing a tissue makes this another 5 star read.

I had such a fun time with this series, I love all the characters and I really loved the time travel aspect of this story. It definitely made me cry in places too. Love this squad so much.