Beautiful Redemption (Caster Chronicles, #4)

Review to come

This is the fourth and last book from the Caster Chronicles series written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl that ends the story of Lena and Ethan.

What a epic way to end this series. It was everything! I loved to read from Lena's point of view and to know what was in her mind. I really enjoyed Ethan's plot and how much he learn. This series was amazing, it had one of the best love stories, it has sacrifices and heartbreak. It was a passionate story filled with magic and great characters.

I seriously give up on this series. Beautiful Creatures was dragged out, Beautiful Darkness was amazing and Beautiful Chaos was a complete and utter mess. The 100 and so pages I have read aren't exciting and Ethan is such a boring protagonist.

Ughhhh, why do I keep reading these stories where there's no end!?! I mean, yes there is a complete final loose end tie up for Ethan and Lena and it's quite wonderful and we get to visit will all of our happy couples at the end and it's nice. But the world itself isn't fixed. They don't deal with the actual Caster Chronicles, or how people are using them. Which I guess could be part of the Dangerous Creatures continuation but my gosh... it's super annoying. It's like, all of my favorite authors got together and were all "Hey, let's not solve any of the large world problems until our third or fourth series, just to make people crazy." and then they all cackle like witches around a cauldron.

BUT, I digress.

Aside from that, I really liked the way this journey continued. I love, love, looooove Ethan's view of a hero and what it means to take a hero's journey. I think he sees it better than most anyone could and it's from a completely different perspective than what you normally see in YA novels. It was refreshing and interesting to see something different.

I also liked the final solution with the balance of the Order of things. I mean, I cried and hated it, but I liked how it didn't just miraculously change the whole world without any sort of price. That's a large theme in this series, you can change your fate but only if you're willing to pay the price. There are so many people in this that die and then come back, or die and are still able to communicate with our world, it's all so involved and wonderful, definitely an interesting take on it.

The story as a whole was beautiful and I'm so happy I read it! I'm going to try to catch up with Dangerous Creatures before Dangerous Deception comes out. I've said a million times that I love the Ridley/Linkubus part of this so I'm excited to see their story continued.

I really enjoyed this, and wish they had followed through with more than 1 movie adaptation, I think it would of been really cool to see all these elements, characters, and locations transfer to screen.

This book had lots of twist and turns to come to a good final ending.