I don’t know why I did this to myself. I knew I wasn’t enjoying this series. I knew that any fun I was getting out of hate-reading was well and truly over after Covet and all of that nonsense. And yet I still picked up Court and thought everything would be okay.

Let’s take the world’s most insecure and touchy teenagers, give them paranormal powers, and send them to war over and over and over again. But make sure to shorten the time constraints so that they have to face three impossible tasks within a week, only a few days after the events of the previous book (which was full of more impossible tasks), which were right after the book before… you get the point. I’m sorry, but the stakes are no longer high, and the results are no longer impressive when a trial is described as impossible and 100% guaranteed death for the fifth time in as many days. Because, and this isn’t even a spoiler because it happens every time; Grace will panic, cry, tell Hudson she loves him, look at her friend’s faces and be able to read their deepest thoughts, and then use her heart, and yay we win again. Oh, don’t forget the weird snapping at each other and petty fights at the worst moments because did I mention these are the world’s most insecure teenagers?