Hi Ems. I feel very dissapointed too. Though I’m happy to get another book in the series, I do feel this book is not well done. The other two gave us at least an eplilogue, but this didn’t. I guess the bonus chapters might serve as an epilogue, but I did feel that the last chapter was sort of a closure on Bryce’s and Hunt’s story. And I just didn’t enjoy enough how everything with the Asteri was wrapped up. There were a lot of things that I liked. Lidia and Runh are also my favevourites. I do suggest you read the Bonus chapter of Ember and Randall and Az/Nes/Bryce. This one in particular got me excited for the upcoming ACOTAR book.

I Totally agree with your review. THESE SERIES MADE ADDICTED TO ROMANTASY. But this book was a huge let down. I only enjoyed the first 300 pages with the escape of the boys from the Asteri dungeon, Lidia and Rhun relationship turnover. Well, the book would be top of top ig the author summarize the whole plot in some basic parts. Crossover with acotar, Rhun and Lidia, epic final battle with the Asteri. The matter with the antitode to Asteri parasite could be wait until the next book ( House of many Waters) since the parasite is in the water. That means, we didnt need to see so much of Tharion, Ithan and Sigrid,( useless and pointless sub plot). Baxian was an interesting side character in whom was given hype in the beginning, had so much potential( backstory with Danika, far more interesting love story than Bryces and Hunts). Fury is also an interesting side character since the CC1 but they both exiled in Avallen and we never hear from them again. The author had the basic material from CC1 and should work more the development of characters that we already knew from CC1. In the contrary, she wrote a book that feels so anticlimatic, full of plot conveniences and plot holes. I was so bored in the end. I feel more excited reading the reviews than reading the book.