**BEWARE OF SPOILERS!!!** (In the 2nd half of this review):
The ending of this book is just a mixed bag of emotions for me. I liked it, but I didn't like it and I still have some unanswered questions. For me a lot of this book was just ok, but things get really interesting towards the end of the book because that's when everything is being revealed and all the questions you've been wondering about since the first book finally get answered. There's also some major plot twists that I didn't expect and some that I did. Overall, I liked this book. Kind of hoped for a better ending but it was ok, but my favorite will always be the first one, Fallen. Now on to the spoilers!

**SPOILERS** (You have been warned):
So the ending...man what an ending. First off, I didn't expect Luce to turn out to be an angel, that was a surprise twist for me. Though once I found out she was an angel and I found out she loved someone else before Daniel, I immediately thought it was Lucifer and I was right. Lucifer using his and Luce's love to overpower the throne was an interesting part of his story. Couple of things that bugged me about the ending: Luce and Daniel chose each other the first time when they did roll call and then as punishment had to endure this curse for thousands of years only to make the same choice the second time around and now they can be mortals and be together (if they find each other)? Why couldn't they skip the whole curse and just been made into mortals the first time around? It's obvious their choice wasn't going to change so why even bother with the curse? Also, if the throne is supposed to be God (which by the way she's depicted in the end makes it sound like she's more of a fairy than God, what's up with the wand? Why does God have a wand? It's God not a fairy, anyway enough of my rant) then she should have known from the beginning that Luce and Daniel's choice wasn't going to change, God is supposed to know the end from the beginning. Also why couldn't Luce and Daniel chose the side of Heaven but still be together? Are couples not allowed in Heaven? Also God is supposed to be love, why would she curse them like that in the first place? I guess my main issue with this is trying to wrap my mind around the type of "God" portrayed in this book. Also the ending left me with some unanswered questions. What happened to Cam? Where did he go? Is he in hell with Lucifer? What about Luce's parent's from this life and her friend Cali? Are their memories of Luce just erased? What will happen this time when Luce and Daniel die as mortals? Will they go back to Heaven, if so will they see their angel friends and recognize them?
Why did Luce and Daniel even have to lose all their memories and be reborn again? Couldn't they have just been made into mortals and sent to Earth but still keep their memories of their friends? So many questions, so many mixed feelings. I wish there were a better ending but as far as series endings go it was ok, at least it didn't turn out like Allegiant.
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So this book is mostly location descriptions and (finally) the angel lore. It's book four and it's the final book technically.

So it's very late in the game to be establishing all of this lore building it up. This should have been done within the first two books, but they were too busy being weird for three books. Instead, we get book four as we start to build our lore and explain the world and the world building comes in.
I wish I had a gif for exactly how my face looks right now because it is so displeased.

Fundamentally you need to establish the rules of the world within the first three books, it's preferable if you have them stated or even taught within the first two. But to drop, in the final book, this. Who encouraged this?

We now have a fetch quest laden with lore. Sometimes when I'm reading I wonder why I do it, because there are so many books out there that disappoint me. I'm a very simple person I like xeno-fiction and I like paranormal stuff, I like angels and demons and all that stuff, but these books just cannot deliver. I'm not asking for a lot, I'm easily amused by simple titles like Stellaluna and Silverwing. And this author can't deliver with a four-part series anything besides one book that might be good? My bar is on the ground, and these books are in the basement.

I think this is all a quest for Troy but my brain began to turn off. "She was an angel called Lucinda" interesting how and her latest life her parents named her close to the first life's name. Odd coincidence.

I realize that this plot is technically been done better in the anime: the Seven Deadly Sins, yes Meliodas is a creep towards Elizabeth when she's a teenager, but they are forever faded to be together and it is done less creepy then Daniel and Lucinda. I don't know what that says because the anime and manga are both pretty creepy.

God gets so annoyed by these guys fighting at the end, that he yells enough at them and walks in as a woman, and takes them all to heaven to basically scold them. I don't know that felt really shitpost.

The ending is that they both choose to be reborn as humans who don't know each other, and see if they find each other despite having the connection that they have removed. So we end with seventeen years in the future the meeting and talking to each other while the Angels watch in the background.

So, what about satan?

Like this whole thing was Satan fighting and planning to like kill all the angels and stuff, and then at the end God just stepped in. Is Satan in heaven now? What's going on?

Apparently hell still exists even though God had this huge plan and stuff? So that didn't get resolved at all by this? I don't understand how God got involved, took everyone to heaven, and then it's just still going on.

My takeaway is that God stepped in reset everything to do with these two people, stepped out, and everything went back to how it was but these two got together. What the fuck?!

0.5 stars.

Literally nothing changes except these two people get together, there's no great resolve over God versus Satan or any of the rest of the problems. I don't know how this is an ending that is happy for anybody but these two people. No one should like this ending this ending is just self gratitude for Lucinda and Daniel and nobody else.

Especially the people who knew them and now grieve and miss them. I'm actually disgusted by this. ( )

The best of the series! Although I felt this series lagged in places, it was well worth the hours spent in a fascinating world of mystery, adventure, and love. ( )

I liked the ending. ( )

Okay, so I'm not going to lie; the only reason I read this book was because I felt almost required to in some sick way considering I had read the first books. I guess in a way I wanted closure... and I also have a problem with myself if I don't finish a book or a series of books after reading even one of them. But that's neither here nor there.

I actually enjoyed this book. Luce wasn't horribly obsessed and all consumed with her love for Daniel like it had been in the other books so I felt like I was actually able to focus on the literary aspects of the book. The plot was pretty interesting (although it was sometimes hard to follow and found myself re-reading certain parts because I got confused). Luce's realization of who/what she really is was interesting and even though I felt like they could have brought it more throughout the other books, it was interesting and relieving to finally have all the questions answered (instead of continuing to pile up with no actual responses like in the previous books).

Lauren Kate did a good job describing "the fall" and the way in which everything took place in heaven. Lucifer became an interesting character and in some ways it was hard not to feel sorry for him after seeing the way in which things progressed between Luce and himself.

This is kind of random, but I felt like this was the first out of all the books in this series that Lauren Kate suddenly through in tons of 10 point vocabulary words. I actually had to look half a dozen of them up when reading this in my Kindle because I wasn't really 100% sure what they meant... Did Kate suddenly get a hold of a Thesaurus? I mean, good for her for using those words because they were pretty meaningful and rich in their meaning, but I don't remember her using such profound or advanced vocab in the other books... Weird.

All in all, this book was much better prepared than the earlier ones in the series and thankfully Luce grew a pair so that we could actually recognize the other literary assets of this book. There were still parts that lacked depth and there were still parts that irritated me to no ends and so I give 4 stars out of 5. ( )