This was a highly anticipated read for 2025, and somehow I let an overwhelming number of ARCs (advance reader copies) get in the way of me finishing a beloved series. I started to buddy read it over the summer and then kept pausing as priorities shifted. I’ll be honest, I probably also put it off because I just didn’t want it to end. I finally made time to enter Emily’s world one more time and I’m so glad I did. My first read of this trilogy was in print, although I reread books 1 and 2 as audiobooks before diving into this one. As I read this with my eyeballs, I couldn’t help but continue to “hear” the excellent narration of Encyclopaedia and Map and I think a reread to actually hear it all over will be in order shortly.

Lana Lord is famous. She’s been acting in Hollywood on a prominent drama that is produced like and often feels like a soap opera. No one even knows her real name is Meg Bryan. No one knows that she and her best friend, Aimee, had planned to study acting in Ireland but ended up staying in Florida. No one really knows Meg at all.

When James’s twin brother Johnny dies, she can feel it. It’s not just twintuition; she sees his final view of dappled light through the trees. She feels the bullet wound to the chest. Not too long after she drives from San Francisco, where she’s made her life for the past two decades, back to her hometown of Six Rivers in the mountains of northern California.