An’la téli saii
I will see you in the stars.
Gone. But not forgotten.
Squad 312 forever.
Well that was an emotional roller coaster. In the best way. I laughed. I ugly cried. I got annoyed. I pumped my fist in the air in triumph. I throughly enjoyed this. Good ending to a great series… but I don’t want to say ending it sounds too final… Dun belis tal’dun the end is no ending. An’la téli saii. Thank you Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman.

Can I give a book more than five stars? Like.. a hundred 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 suffice, but also might fall woefully short of the praise this book deserves.

I don’t even know if I can form words accurate enough to convey what this book did to me, but I’ll certainly try.

Let me preface this by saying that it comes with a nice character-by-character recap at the beginning of the book, so while I always highly recommend re-reads, it isn’t strictly necessary!

Every single page, sentence, word of this was an absolutely wild rollercoaster of emotions. I laughed and cried, had my heart shattered into a million tiny pieces and stitched back together again. I felt joy and loss and so so so much love.

All of our favorite characters are back and better than ever. We see them in impossible situations, doing the things they are known for but always growing and changing in ways that help them survive and save those they love. I can’t even say who I’m most proud of because every last one of them was so selfless and strong and courageous and brave and 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙. These characters are 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 to me.

Kaufman and Kristoff yet again wove such a beautiful tale of found family and friendship and love and loss and doing what is right even it isn’t easy. Easily the best book I have read so far in 2021.

I really loved the books before this one in the series so I was so excited to read this one. It did not disappoint! I really loved where the author took the story and the characters were very relatable. Great series overall.

Here I am at the airport, trying not to cry as I finish this book.

The prior volume of the trilogy was so strong that I gave it five stars. Sequels and middle books in a trilogy are HARD, but Aurora Burning was spectacular-- it raised the stakes, advanced the plot, and developed some characters.

Aurora’s End is a worthy concluding volume, delivering on the promises of the first two books. I love a good payoff, and foreshadowing delivered in the prior books are critical here, especially the hints of time travel. Our beloved crew is broken into three, but each plotline was so nailbitingly exciting I didn’t want to rush to my favorite as I typically do. Nearly non-stop action. I’d absolutely love to see this as a prestige TV series that can do justice to the epic space battles and other amazing visuals.

The trilogy altogether is a delightful read that’s already head and shoulders above most YA, but the metaphors embedded here were unexpectedly powerful and nuanced. Caersan, xenophobic and uncompromising, reminds me of some players in current politics. Yet the complications of his familial connections lend extra dimensions here. The Ra’haam are all devouring aliens (essentially an organic version of the Borg), but they’re also colonizers with no sense that their way is not the right way. They love what they consume, but by incorporating it, they smother and ruin it.

I have some small quibbles-- while cross-species relationships abound, it’s a shame that the one F/F relationship in the book gets far less screentime. I’m not sure the last chapter’s POV character is a good choice for that POV. The Syldrathi Pull is a little eye-rolling but I loved the relationships in which it appears.

Can’t wait to pick this up in print and read it again!

I'm so glad I was able to get my hands on this eARC through NetGalley. It was a bittersweet ending to a series I loved so much. But I'm so glad I found and read this series!

Compared to the first two, this one seems lazy. The first two installments are jam packed, fast moving, and creative at every twist and turn. This one seems to lead the reader around by the tail for most of the book. Making them move from place to place with not much going on until everything ties up at the very end. While the ending is in fact satisfying, gives the reader the answers they are searching for throughout the series ... the journey to get there is boring. Teens will read this because they are looking forward to the conclusion to this series and they will want to see if their favorites survive (with Kristoff, you never know if he's going to off someone you love) but I think many of them are going to be disappointed in the final third of this journey.

I loved the Aurora Cycle, and was eagerly anticipating the conclusion to this trilogy. But, as anyone who has read my reviews before knows, I get really nervous about conclusions to series. So many miss the mark for me. Thankfully, Aurora's End did not disappoint!

After the explosive ending to book 2, I was quite curious to see how the authors would get us out of this mess. I admit that it took me a bit to get into this book. This was partly because (as the description states) the characters were separated into three groups and I really missed the group dynamic. This was also because one of the storylines was rather repetitive in the beginning.

Thankfully, by about the 1/3 mark, the story had grabbed me and I was in. Without spoiling anything, I'll just say I found the ending satisfying and felt no strings were left egregiously hanging.

Overall, a satisfying conclusion to a wonderful trilogy!

Kaufman and Kristoff have a way of grabbing you by the heartstrings and leaving you happy and sad all at once. Cat will always deserve better! Overall, it was a great read and I can't wait to see what else they do!