Not walking up but looking at a beautiful staircase. Spending an hour typing at a coffee shop. That my wedding dress was tea length, not floor. But she made a decision – and only waffled a little tiny bit! Yay for America!! In the end, the romantic side of this story still had just enough angst to keep it interesting, but not enough that I wanted to strangle the characters involved.īeing married. Could she have expressed that decision to both guys a bit earlier in the book? Well, yes.

Let me start by saying that America did not magically turn into the strong and decisive character I really wanted her to be (see negatives below), but I was happy that she didn’t spend this entire book wondering if she should be with Aspen or Maxon ( thank you!!). But some unexpected things happened with the rebels, and we got to know them a bit more as well – I don’t want to spoil anything, but I will just say that the rebellion storyline started to get really interesting to me and I wasn’t ever sure how it was all going to end up! Honestly, often rebellion storylines bore me a bit, but this one didn’t at all – I was very invested in what was going to happen and how it would all play out. The rebels were still repeatedly attacking the palace and, as the book went on, they started to even attack the general population. The rebellion was still in full swing when this book began. I think it made a huge difference to the story to truly see these girls and get to know them! We even got to see why each of them wanted to marry Maxon. We got to know who they really are and why they’d made the choices they made. We got to know all of the girls in the Elite A LOT better in this book.

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