Libba Bray

I found the ending sad, but in a bittersweet way. As Ginny said, it seemed like that was the way it should have ended.

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Felicity runs off to Paris to try find love again along with her mother and Polly. Ann runs off with what I refer to as "the circus" and Gemma is off to New York and University. There's no mention of them ever seeing each other again or anything. It just doesn't sit right at all with me. We've had all this build up of these girls, these best friends who have been through the worst and back with each other. It just doesn't seem right for them to just part ways and that's the end.

In a way I kind of agree with that, but I think it would have gone against the girls characters had they done anything different. For Ann, her dream was always to be on stage - and she got that wish. Felicity is a free spirit, she didn't want to be stuck in the corseted humdrum of Victorian London, and Gemma is independant and didn't want that either. I think these endings (or beginnings perhaps) for their lives are right.

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Then there's the case with Gemma's father, what was that?!?! They were just sending him of to India to die alone??

I thought this was a good ending for her Father. India was the one place he had been truly happy, and it seemed to me that wanting to return there for the last days of your life isn't so terrible.

I was sad that Kartik died and got stuck in the realms But I can understand why that happened. In the rules of the Victorian society, even if he had survived he and Gemma couldn't have been together in the way they would have wanted. I like the idea that he is waiting in the realms for her, which I assume is where she'll go when she dies.

I wasn't terribly upset at what happened to Pippa, I've never liked her character. The Felicity/Pippa revelation wasn't all the shocking...like Gemma said I think you've always sensed it from the start of the series.

Overall, I enjoyed it. But I agree some of the loose ends ought to have been tied up. As the header of my LJ says...

The problem with novels is that they end on the last page...