First off, I totally love time-skip sequels like this one. I love there being an extended break and then coming back to see the same characters and how they've grown and changed. It automatically gives the work more hype. So I really enjoyed this finale.

What I loved:
Tai. Honestly, I was worried when I read in the synopsis that there was going to be a new character added to the society because I didn't want the dynamic we all know and love to be messed up. But I didn't have to worry. Tai was honestly the CUTEST. Yeah that's it, basically just Tai is really cute and great.

The emotional depth. This book hit really hard emotionally. As someone who grew up with series like this one, reading this last book years later when the characters are also older made it easy to relate. The fear of things changing and losing something great is very real. And I think that it impacted the characters well and they all dealt with it in ways that were also on-brand with their characters (like Kate refusing to be sad, for example.) The part where they were all basically yelling at each other because of underlying tensions was also pretty funny but acted as a good emotional climax.

Random things I enjoyed for no reason:
Kate's first scene
The fact that Tai showed up and Kate and Reynie were literal parents/good at dealing with kids and Sticky and Constance were like "what is this thing idk what to do"
When Crawlings was like "wow george got handsome but don't worry reynie we can't all be models" I DIED why did he have to do him like that LMAO
Kate's struggle to drive the speed limit
THE TEA when Constance said

that everyone in the group had liked someone else at some point

I always seem to pick a favorite scene so I'm just gonna make it an official thing.
Golden Scene:
This time, I would have to give it to the street fair scene when Kate fights the Ten Men. Motorcycle tricks plus collapsing an ice cream truck are too good to ignore. Honorable mention to the scene in Mr. Curtain's security suite and also the one where Constance and Kate have to deal with the Ten Men (again).

The one thing:
I really did like this book. But I kinda felt like something was missing. Maybe it was the fact that the setting was the same as in the first book (not completely, but enough that it didn't feel fully original.) Maybe the stakes needed to be higher. Not totally sure what it was, but I think it needed more hype overall. Like I said earlier, since this was a time-skip book, it already was hype, but you can't rely on only that aspect. The plot has to add to it too. It's kind of hard to describe, but basically I never felt the level of excitement that I did for the second book in the series.

The best way I can put it is that this SHOULD have felt like when you go to the theater and see a trailer for a movie sequel that you were excited for, but weren't expecting to see right then. That type of "OH MY GOD WHAT this is going to be amazing." Unfortunately this book didn't quite get there.

4/5 overall!