The Lady of Rapture is the epitome of the lyric "all my enemies started off friends". For Iris, and the other characters in The Bones of Ruin universe, they think they've avoided the end of the world, only to find out they might have replaced what they knew, what was familiar, with something else entirely. They thought they avoided the end of the world, but they might have sped it along instead. This series ender very much begins by asking us if we have lost everything, who cares if the world ends? It asks us whether humanity is even worth saving.

I adore this trilogy - I really do. Everything about this world feels alive and full of wonder and like it fits within history.