SO good. A great wrap-up to the trilogy.

I listened to the audio book, and again really enjoyed the narrator!

This book was enjoyable, I definitely wanted to know what happened, but for some reason about half way I did temporarily lose interest, just for a couple days, not sure why.
Bullet review:
- I thought the introduction of the Eliza character was interesting, and I think she was a good source to see the human perspective of the arrival of angels in Earth, as well as obviously becoming an important plot point and character later. I found the way she was written to obviously have a secret and backstory and we as the reader were so in the dark about her history: this was frustrating to me and sometimes made her perspective drag. I also didn't like how she became so important basically at the eleventh hour and had not been introduced before this book. Also, Zuzanna and Nick think she is so cool, but we really don't see enough of her personality during her boring parts for me to have ever formed much of an opinion of her. (Plus, is her having these memories just a bit too convenient for the plot?)
- I kept wanting to read and was pulled along, which was great, but it felt a bit of a let-down to have there not be a big battle where the good guys win? I mean, it's great because we don't want our good guys all slaughtered, but at the same time they don't realize it was the Stellians and so it was almost too easily won.
- The Stellians and who Akiva is and their magic and what they do for the world was all really cool, but felt under-developed, or almost like this was all set-up for more books and I don't think there are any? I wanted more of these characters and more of a satisfying arc with them.
- I thought Ziri/Loraz relationship was unnecessary and unfounded? I mean, we already have Karou and Akiva as our chimera/angel relationship and these two had really not met or known anything about each other before Ziri was the Wolf, and even after they had only like 1 major conversation, yet the end implied they were in love instead of cautiously thinking about a relationship. It sounded like Ziri had always loved Madrigal/Karou and not anyone else, so I understand that he realizes that Karou would not love him because she loves Akiva and that Ziri works to get over his feelings, it just felt like his directing them toward Loraz was abrupt and odd for me.
- REALLY glad the wishes come back into play and that Z and N use them so smartly and that this bit of magic that was a big part of book 1 comes back!

Side thoughts: we never do get a sexy scene between Karou and Akiva, and I think it's really interesting that this series doesn't technically shy away from the romance and hints many times at sex happening between characters (Z&N, Madrigal & Akiva, Karou & stupid boyfriend, others) but never does this scene in first person. Also, there is a fair bit of violence and death in the trilogy: why are we more okay with violence and death in our young adult books than sex? I've thought this plenty of times before, a cultural point of interest.