My exact response to when she deliberately left plot holes: “I see what you’re doing JLA.”) This dramatically changed my viewing of the last book as something not-as-satisfying to it’s-not-over-yet. I was a bit shocked until I found out that we get a Wicked novella in 2018! (Which I kinda called nearing the end of the book. The ending still left a bit of a cliffhanger, with many questions still rolling through my head.

I honestly kept looking at how many pages I had left and thinking how in the world is she going to tie everything up in this many pages? I felt like JLA was adding on more and more of the plot in the second half, when the rest of the plot wasn’t resolved. I couldn’t embrace the second half of the book as something that was happening - it didn’t seem real to me. I felt the second half of the book was anti-climactic for the last book in the series. Surprisingly, this was the part I felt fell short of my expectations. Part two included a lot of ass kicking and shocking moments. Part one had my nose in stuck in the book, crying and laughing like a crazy person. “Brave” is all about Ivy and what she’s dealt with in the previous books and how that shapes her. Part one was the sort of depressing, but oddly satisfying, part that I like to think of as Ivy earning the title of the book, Brave. (I don’t think she can write a bad book.)Īs someone who likes to be a bit analytical - especially since I’ve read JLA’s entire discography - I looked at this book in two parts. This book was classically amazing in natural Jennifer L. I adored the first two books of the Wicked Trilogy and couldn’t wait for the finale. “Brave” was one of the most anticipated reads of the year for me.

Brave by jennifer armentrout