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Okay, coming off my run of tragic and bittersweet romances, I admit I was pretty nervous to read Goliath, especially because the first line of the back cover is "secrets revealed" and it's dedicated to "everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last."

I was thinking, 'can I trust you, Scott Westernfeld? can I? or should I just start being sad right now.'

But I finished the book tonight, and


















I'll be honest, I was hugely doubtful that Deryn and Alek were going to end up together, and I doubted that if they did, Alek's feelings would be done in a believable way (spoiler alert, they were) and while I had known from the beginning that Alek destroying the letter from the pope was a possibility, again, i didn't know if Alek would arc to that place in a believable way, if the author was even going there.

I admit, Goliath kind of obviously the weakest book in the trilogy, largely because of the lack of thrilling heroics when compared to the other books, but I'm so happy that the author managed to wrap up his plots (romantic and otherwise) in a character congrent and HAPPY way that I don't care.