I'm pretty sure I cried for the first 60% of this book. Arden (and Caspian, apparently) still had a LOT of growing up to do. I only felt bad for Arden because he REALLY loves Caspian and it's his first and he just doesn't understand what's happening. So of course he's going to run back to Caspian no matter how he can.

Even though Nathaniel did a few things to throw his relationship in Arden's face, I still don't think he deserved what happened.
It wasn't fully his fault as Caspian came back to him, and then just kind of shit on it.

I adore Ellery. I think in this book, I was more invested in Arden's and Ellery's relationship.
I was also very concerned for Bellerose. I have this odd feeling like he (and maybe George?) Is going to get his own story. I really hope so, because he kind of fell off the face of the Earth and I need to know what he's doing.

I really want to higher rate this, because I enjoyed the writing..but I really loathed Caspian for most of it. Maybe until the very end there. I didn't like the way he strung Arden along, just because he can't unfuck his shit. In the end, there was a lot of growth and what seems like an HFN. I'm not sure if this was supposed to be a trilogy or if we're getting more. I have questions about side characters,so I really hope there's more

I've gone into this book not knowing it was the end of a trilogy.
On that note, this book did do a nice job of making sure I knew what was going on in the story at the beginning. Clearly this is a couple with a tumultuous history, and one of them was abused when they were younger (please be aware of that trigger.)
This m/m romance had a lot of ups and downs for me. The story did flow well, but there were some choices made by the author along the way that I didn't particularly agree with. (I.e. cheating)
There are many ways to achieve the results the author wanted without crossing those lines. Although, I did enjoy how they pulled in some BDSM elements that did greatly effect our main coupling.
I do have to say that by the time we got to the end, I was happy with the ending. I think it went almost a little too well, but I enjoyed how the author chose to end things.
This is a series that isnt going to appeal to everyone, but it does show realistic ups and downs within a relationship. I think its worth giving a try.