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This was WAY too high fantasy for my tiny little brain. The romance was cute, the lore was fire, the maps were beautiful, Jase has rizz. But I had 0 idea what was going on in this book most of the time, and sometimes I was just like “here for the vibes” but other times i was so lost I considered DNFing (a war crime) soooo very mixed bag.

This series keeps getting better and better. I appreciate that the love triangle is FINALLY resolved in this book, so we can just have a cute little romance sub-plot (which btw I think was actually really incredibly written I know YA romances can be shallow but I think this one was wonderful.) And the plot just went all sorts of crazy in the last 150 pages, but I’m so here for it. 4.5 stars! I love this series to death, it’s so readable. Definitely a rec for people still getting in to reading!

My best explanation for why this book didn’t work for me is as follows. I think How High We Go In The Dark was meant to be consumed by me in a slow intellectual manner, while sipping a cup of earl gray tea as I take the time to read a couple pages every day. Intstead I rage-read this in around 24 hours while inhaling a package of Oreos. That may be a bad explanation to why this genuinely beautiful book just won’t click in my brain, but it is the only reasoning I seem to have.

LETS BE CLEAR. By no stretch is Josh anything other than a massive red flag. But like…I was over here kicking my feet like “WHAT he’s not stalking her for over a year and threatening to kill anyone who looks at her?” (Cough cough Alex from the first book) The parts of the story that didn’t center around the romance I also thought were really well done and somewhat interesting. So I think just because Josh wasn’t pulling an Alex Volkov and because the B plot kinda slayed here I am giving it 3 stars. The bar is in hell for this book series, truly. (I’m probably gonna read the 4th one🥲)