i hated this so bad. i swear the first 80% of the book pretty much nothing happens - it did not need to be this long! i didn’t like the writing style in the previous books either but it seems to have gotten worse somehow. i hate the prose and the dialogue feels even worse. i’m not a fan of the single parent/teen dad thing at all so that might be why i couldn’t connect to the story much, but even the side plot bored me. don’t get me wrong there was a lot going on but the whole thing felt messy, rushed, and lacking. even the characters i liked in the first three books seem to have been ruined. victoria and captain both seemed to have so much promise before but it’s very much fallen flat here.