I enjoy this series and have had no problems bingeing the last few, but this one was hard. The most upsetting thing for me, that made me actually angry, was when the author skipped a very important conversation we had been waiting a long time for… AGAIN. Similar to when Jason gets ambushed by his parents at the end of the last book and then the intro of the next book just gives us a brief description of him looking back on the conversation. They did that Again but in the middle of the book and I actually yelled at my phone and almost stopped reading. It’s like the author is afraid they’ll mess up these meaningful moments so they decide to just skip them instead, and it’s extremely frustrating.
I also had a real hard time with the romance. I love a good romance sub plot, don’t get me wrong, and I understand intellectually the author was trying to remind us that Jason is just a teenager behind the mask, but it was very painful to listen to the overwhelming amount of teen angst and Jason’s very irrational decisions around it. It just seems like he backslid so far in this book after finally starting to grow, and in so many ways simultaneously.
Overall I’ll keep reading, but if this trend of skipping all the meaningful non-action scenes continues it may cause me to rethink