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The final book of this series killed my love for this series. There are many endings of shows and books that have endings reviled by fans (Sopranos finale, Game of Thrones finale, etc.), but I can never really hate a finale of anything quite like this series. Until this book came out, I had reread every book in the series multiple times. Even in life, I had never been disappointed by any sort of ending for anything really. This book was unfortunately the first book that made me go "huh, some media can be utter trash".
While my remembrance of what actually happened in terms of plot details is a bit spotty, the parts I hate still sit with me. Faced with an impossible outcome to his final fight, the utterly trash deus ex machina ending for the main character and his resurrection as the actual author of the series was so awful, it stuck with me to this day, 16 or so years after its release. The whole just became some weird power fantasy of the author, who I guess wanted to be a vampire, but not in a very violent way (but that may be because in a YA book series, having the main characters be extremely brutal and unromantic wouldn't make for a popular read).
I'm sure some fans of this series will be like "oh no! it totally makes sense! You're forgetting plot points and character building! You're just a hater!", and sure, yes, I could be being unnecessarily harsh, but I cannot emphasize more how utterly crushed and disappointed by an ending of a book series numbering in the double digits.
I will truly never hate any ending of any book/show/film quite like this ending. I wish I could give it less stars. I despised the ending so much, I decided to take time out of my day to review the final entry of this YA series I hadn't read since middle school just to emphasize my hatred of this series.
Read the series if you want, but be prepared for a stupid, pointless ending.
While my remembrance of what actually happened in terms of plot details is a bit spotty, the parts I hate still sit with me. Faced with an impossible outcome to his final fight, the utterly trash deus ex machina ending for the main character and his resurrection as the actual author of the series was so awful, it stuck with me to this day, 16 or so years after its release. The whole just became some weird power fantasy of the author, who I guess wanted to be a vampire, but not in a very violent way (but that may be because in a YA book series, having the main characters be extremely brutal and unromantic wouldn't make for a popular read).
I'm sure some fans of this series will be like "oh no! it totally makes sense! You're forgetting plot points and character building! You're just a hater!", and sure, yes, I could be being unnecessarily harsh, but I cannot emphasize more how utterly crushed and disappointed by an ending of a book series numbering in the double digits.
I will truly never hate any ending of any book/show/film quite like this ending. I wish I could give it less stars. I despised the ending so much, I decided to take time out of my day to review the final entry of this YA series I hadn't read since middle school just to emphasize my hatred of this series.
Read the series if you want, but be prepared for a stupid, pointless ending.
