toointofiction's Reviews > Aurora's End

“I will see you in the stars”


Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (more like 4,8 actually)

❗❗Spoilers ahead. You've been warned.❗❗


Even though, I was waiting for like a month and a half to get approved on Netgalley and WASN'T (yes, I'm still pretty sore about that) I was still excited to read this and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was sooo damn good, you guys!!


I've noticed that not a lot of people liked Finian on the cover but I LOVE IT. My favourite boy looks absolutely GORGEOUS and deserves to be on the cover. I love him so much. He is the best out of all the others (and yes, I am prepared to fight you on this). I did expect Tyler to be on the final cover but I don't really mind that he wasn't. As I said, Finian has my heart.


The whole plot was amazing. I don't think there's any brain left in my head, it's all over the walls, now. There were so many awesome plot twists in this thing, I don't know how I'm still alive. The majority of the book was my favourite squad separated from each other. Let's start with Zila, Fin, and Scar ending up in the past, several centuries before them. And then ZILA STAYED IN THE PAST to put those gifts in place and my heart died for a minute.


Then we have Kal, Auri and dipshit Starslayer ending up in the future, 20-something years later, where Tyler was the only one who survived from the Squad and he married Saedii, had a daughter with her, and then died in battle (yes, this applies to all three of them).


And as if that wasn't enough, coldhearted monsters Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman had Tyler KILL CAT and then LOSE AND EYE AND HIS SPLEEN!! I mean, COME OOOOON!!! DO YOU HATE US??!?!?! Let's not forget that for about 10-15 pages they made us think that Auri was as good as gone. Cruel, cruel, cruel. But at least Saedii felt the Pull for Tyler so that was my personal highlight of the whole series.


The epilogue was so sweet and incredible. Zila found Auri's family and told them she was safe. Auri then got to meet one of her descendants, which was SUCH A SWEET MOMENT. Scar and Fin had a meet-the-family vacation (adorable), Auri and Kal were helping the Syldrathi. AND TY AND SAEDII WERE DATING 😍😍😍😍 Also they made a statue in honor of Zila the secret third founder of the Aurora Academy. It was just all around AMAZING.


I loved all the couples in this one. Scar and Fin were so damn adorable. I love them so much. They are GREAT together. Kal and Auri were as adorable as ever. No changes here. Zila and Nari...so so cuuute!!! And now, my most favourite ship in the entire series, Saedii and Tyler. This is enemies-to-lovers done RIGHT. The passion between them, the refusal to acknowledge their feelings especially for Saedii feeling the Pull!! And her character development...*chef's kiss*


Now for the things I didn't really like. I've said that in previews reviews of the series, the fact that the characters directly address the reader still pisses me off. I cannot escape reality if I keep getting reminded that I am nothing but a mere spectator. I just can't. The Jones siblings need to take it a little easy with their genital references. It was a little weird for me, not gonna lie. I hated the fact that Starslayer was sort of redeemed in the end. I appreciate the major character development (it was done veryy well) but I don't know how comfortable I am redeeming an abuser. If he didn't hit his wife and children I could have liked it better. Finally, I wasn't entirely satisfied with the way the Ra' ham was defeated. I mean, sure love triumphs all, it was pretty miraculous that that thing could actually learn to love and stop conquering. BUT, I kinda wanted it to be obliterated, somehow. I know it resided in too many planets for that to happen but still. It destroyed so many lives, Auri's dad, Cat, Adams and all the others. I would have liked to see it destroyed because then all those people it's taken would've found true peace and not continue on living forever as one mind. The way I see it, there's no real peace if all those people are still and will forever be a part of it, even though, Auri taught it/them how to love and leave everyone alone.



Aaaaanyway, enjoy my crazy rant. I hope you can make sense of it.

Check out my reviews of Aurora Rising and Aurora Burning