3.5/5

False advertisement on the back of how this is such a thrilling series. It isn't.

Where to start? It was boring, so boring in the beginning. This book literally took me a month to get by and I finally finished the last 200 hundred pages in 2 days. So it just feels really slow and kinda never picks up that much.

To the actual characters and scenes... I hate Beau Andrews with a passion. He is trash who left his pregnant girlfriend behind and fell in love in France like the asshole he is. Paul is the love of my life. And I think Louis should have become a more important character and maybe a love interest if he was written differently. Louis is 30 but could have been written to be in his 20s, a man who has turned blind after the apparent murder-suicide of his parents, after being molested by his mother. I think he could have been a perfect love interest in between Beau and Paul. Beau should have been the cheater ultimately, the betrayer of Ruby. Louis should have been her next love at a more appropriate age, and been a charming boy with the sad backstory who may commit suicide due to trauma of molestation and leave Ruby (un)knowingly pregnant for all beloved Paul to finally take responsibility. Now that is the story I'd rather have.

But all we got was bullshit. I don't care about the relationship between Beau and Ruby. Nor do I care about the boarding school, or Giselle, or anything but my darling Paul. I liked the friendship with Abby and her portrayal during this time as not fully white, though what even is this time period??

All I want from the last book is some drama because most of this was dry af.