Okay so, 3.5 ✨

I think it's clear that SJM knows how to intertwine stories, and she knows how to write a start, and a middle, but she DOES NOT know how to write endings.
It was clearly a second draft, everything felt rushed, like telling a story you have already told before, sparing a lot of details.

Now: ⚠️spoilers⚠️:

The crossover was disappointing, I wasn't waiting for acotar5, but we didn't even see Feyre talk, not even Rhys was the main character of the crossover, just

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Nesta and Azriel

. And even then, the only thing they did was

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walk on a cave looking at walls

. 200 pages for that!!! And then some at the end, like if you're going to do a crossover, do it properly.

And don't get me started on the subtle mention of ToG with the

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Wyrm and Brann...

I didn't understand at all the Lidia storyline, I didn't care about

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Lidia's Sons

, the same way I didn't care about Emile and Sofie in CC2, it was useless to the storyline, put there only to tell us

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Lidia's background story.

The same with Hunt's storyline. Why tell us he's

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Hel's son

if that didn't make him any special? Not even more powerful, just that he could have

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take out the halo himself all this time

, we already knew he could power Bryce up. Also, he was all angry and that about finding out, just to forget 1 chapter later, and suddenly he wasn't angry anymore.

Overall, i think the start was slow, but with

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Lidia's rescue

it picked up the story and flowed somewhat nicely until 300/350 pages at the end.

The ending felt anticlimactic, like it was too easy to

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kill the Asteri

, we didn't even see anything about the battle, and as always SJM main characters are always

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out of power

when you need it the most... If you've read ToG or Acotar, the battle felt repetitive, it's always the same, except this time we had

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black holes