‪IMPOSTER SYNDROME by Mishell Baker. The Accords are in jeopardy! The unity of the Arcadia Project is broken as the USA defies the UK’s authority and somehow Millie Roper is at the center of it! A satisfying end to several storylines but I hope not the end for this series!‬ ( )

Another great book, highly enjoyed. But the main action sequence was written as a movie script? Complete with cues? It didn't work for me and was awful to sit through. But the cast continues to be comfortably diverse, and gave me a new idea. Which is that the fae manage their immortality through stories, and attempt to end their lives at the "best" moment for their stories. Which I find interesting. Great series, it could end here, but I hope it doesn't ( )

There's a lot to love about this UF that refuses to bow down to the usual expectations.

But then, this series does follow a *certain* set of expectations. For one, it completely relies on all types of mental illness to drive character arcs. It's not just the MC who is bipolar, who had attempted suicide, lost her legs, and yet still manages to use her head and save the day as a productive (if often very destructive) employee in a Fae (be it Seele or Unseele court) world. Ahem. Excuse me. Worlds. This takes place in both the Fae lands and LA (with some travel around the world).

This has got to be the most wildly diverse novel I've ever read. Not only mental spectrums are accounted for, but sexual, social, and ideological. Everyone has a place and usually they all want to murder each other or are willing to do it in a more socially acceptable (if also very destructive) way. :)

In this novel, we have a great Heist fiction with a wildly diverse cast and I'm frankly amazed that any of these characters function well enough to cause the amount of damage they do. And that's not even accounting for the damage they *intended* to do.

I'm caught in admiration for this novel and the series while also being a bit flabbergasted at the same time. It has good writing and it's always pretty entertaining, but I don't want it to always be about the mental damage. Even that which makes this unique can be overdone.

Still, it straddles the line and succeeds for the majority for me. :) ( )

Third (and likely final) book in the Arcadia Series, Impostor Syndrome lends closure to the story of Millie, a human agent with Borderline Personality interfacing with the world of Faerie. I seriously loved this book. No character is predictable, but all are believable. ( )

Millie is now planning a rebellion against the Arcadia Project, in order to overturn the system that’s enslaved spirits to do magic since the Project began. She’s also trying to deal with her reciprocated crush on her boss Caryl, whose emotional support dragon only sometimes deals with her emotions for her, and accept a new member of the team who also has BPD and thus works very badly with Millie. Various Seelie and Unseelie types complicate the situation further. It’s a good conclusion to this part of the arc (if there’s more to come). ( )