I had to take a couple of days to process this one. I'm not sure why, exactly, but there was just something about it that pulled at my mind and twisted my feelings and meant that I had to needed to let it settle under my skin and let it breathe before I could even handle it. Fawn Bailey wrote a series that is so beautiful and so wrong that it's right.

Rose and Thorn are ready for their final choice. Thorn has asked her his big question and she has given him her answer. They are sure that they are going to be together forever, but there are outside events which conspire against them. Both Pia and Carina are unhappy with the current state of affairs, but for different reasons. Pia, at least, has valid reasons. Carina is just cuckoo for cocoa puffs.

I felt just about every emotion there was to feel when I was reading this. There may or may not have been a tear or two. Thorn was so wrong to do things the way that he did, but is he right too because of the results that he got? I don't know. It's a conundrum and one that I'm pretty sure that I will think about every time I read this book. I'll be reading it a lot because I really enjoyed the series.

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4.1 stars

This is the final book in this trilogy. While it was good and covered everything a conclusion should, it lacked what drew me in from the first novel. However, it does not detract from the series as a whole. I've very much enjoyed this author and her darker side. ( )