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Once again Karen Lynch took my psychic far far away from the real world, made me ignore my family, and deprived me of sleep while I DEVOURED another of her series.
As a whole, it is a great, fast-paced, fantasy adventure with a strong romantic plotline. Perfect YA entertainment.
I loved Jesse. She's so resourceful and jabby. For once we got a heroine that makes all smart choices. What a relief not to be getting frustrated with illogical decisions. #notmyjesse
She is truly smart and relatable without being unbalanced or OP.
This being said, the series has a few faults that are mostly manifested in the last installment. It will be pretty spoilery from this point further.
1. The last book was very different from the first two. There was almost no hunting, so we didn't meet new creatures, to learn about their incriminating incompatibility with the human world. I liked this element a lot. And of course, seeing Jesse kick ass on jobs was also fun.
As the whole gang traveled to Ferie, they could have met some of the creatures Jesse hunted before. It would be cool to see them influence the plotline. Maybe some would want revenge? It was a missed opportunity not to watch the repercussions of first in history bounty hunter in Ferie.
2. Most of what happened immediately after they landed in Ferie was very boring and annoying. Full of petty court squabbles, recreational rides, and training (which effects weren't really used for anything later). Suddenly I felt like I was in a different story. Some weird mix of Bridgerton, Little Mermaid, and Cinderella 2. Ferie itself was just some unremarkable medieval dreamland. Super cliché.
3. After they landed in Ferie forgotten was the human world and all that happened there. Jesse only once visited her family, and that's it. Half of the world building was just put aside. All the plotlines opened at the beginning, like her sudden unwanted fame, or the billionaire hunting her, were left forgotten or closed off the pages.
It would be much cooler to have the human world incorporated in the series finale.
4. Final quest from the goddess. It was... dull.
Nothing really from Jesse's skillset was crucial to completing it. Literally, her only useful qualification was that she befriended a dragon. Nothing that goddess powers couldn't remedy. The visions Jesse had in book two were a nice touch. It somehow lessened the feeling of randomness. But I would like to see more planning there. Something more besides her bravery to install it. There are plenty of brave people in the world. Give them magic stone and order a dragon to fly them around, and they could have been easily chosen instead.
When I think about it...
Jesse becomes goddess blessed when she was still human, she was chosen to find the stone (sorry, I listened to the audiobook, so I don't know how to spell most names from the book), but why goddess would choose a human if she knew it will later be required to balance it with other stones in Ferie? Or she didn't know and just got lucky that her champion got shot and was to be turned fairy?
So, it was pretty much a huge coincidence that she got to complete the final quest from the goddess. She was on her payroll from a previous job, so had to step up for the next thing.
Is it something bad? Nope, but I would like to feel some destiny in working.
5. Lucas - did only I notice he is not a developed character? No interests. No backstory. No arc, really. He is the blueprint of the book boyfriend.
Alpha male, handsome, prince, always coming to the rescue, possessive and jealous when needed, always overprotective. His only traits? Dutiful and in love with Jesse.
His only thing was when he learned to trust and don't doubt Jesse. It's his only growth, and of course, it's relationship related. It had zero influence on the ending. Does Lucas believe her in this cell, or not, it changes nothing.
He's not even in the final scene.
When to think of it, he's gone a lot