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Amazing!!!!!!

I was very excited to read the final in this trilogy and I loved the first two books. I thought this one was...alright...but it did seem a bit messy and leave a lot of unanswered questions (I'd prefer to give it a 2.5 score).I wish we could go back to the days of having one story lasting the length of one book rather than publishers expecting authors to string out stories into a trilogy or longer that seems to be the norm these days. It runs the risk of a story not evolving how it should do, using three chapters to explain an incident when one would do and going off on tangents that distract.Although I did love the world that was created and being Oxford based myself it was good knowing some of the locations.But there were some of elements that niggled me (no spoilers):1) This is a book written and set in the 21st Century so it really frustrated me that throughout the story Diana is treated by Matthew and other characters as a weak and helpless woman simply because she was pregnant. They wouldn't let her walk anywhere unaided or do anything for that matter. I know they were being protective but I still thought it was over the top. Plus the whole medieval outlook of male heads of households, woman 'doing their husband's bidding' and vampire wives having to act a certain way grated with me. Yes many of the characters are VERY old and but I cannot believe that they would be so set their ways, I would think that they would adapt the the culture they were living in.2) There was constant changing from Diana's point of view to third person POV which I couldn't get on with. It should have all been in the third person.3) The lovey dovey scenes were cringeworthy and unnecessary.Nevertheless I enjoyed the trilogy as a whole and glad I read them.