From Goodreads,""Amber! I never even thought of that! Maybe she can tell you your match."
Whoa. Now that's interesting.
Amber Sand has spent half her life solidifying other people's happily-ever-afters. As a matchmaker, she has the ability to look into anyone's eyes and see their perfect match. But lately, her powers have been on the fritz, and not only is she totally unsure whether her matches are true, she can't see anyone in the eyes of her boyfriend Charlie Blitzman. With Amber and her friends graduating high school and about to take off for various colleges, Amber is hoping to have one last carefree summer-but she's also dying to find a way to fix her powers, and learn, for better or worse, if she and Charlie are truly meant to be.
So when an online matchmaker named Madame Lamour comes to Chicago, Amber sets out to talk to her and find out who her match is once and for all. Of course, when it comes to the magical community, nothing's ever that easy, and Amber soon finds herself caught up in a breathless showdown that involves a fairy family feud and a magical-creature auction--and requires teaming up with a certain siren nemesis. Can Amber and her friends save the day one more time before setting off for their new lives? And will Amber ever learn whether Charlie is her one true love?
With tons of laugh-out-loud moments, appearances by all your favorite characters, and one totally tearful reveal, you won't want to miss a single swoony moment of this romantic conclusion to the Windy City Magic trilogy."
Goodreads - The Fairest Kind of Magic
I never know how to feel when I reach the final book in a series. I'm either super excited that the series is over or I go into a depression because it has ended. The Fairest Kind of Love is the final book in the Windy City Magic series and again, I don't exactly know how to put my feelings into words. However, I will try my best to review this book and give the series a fair conclusion.
The Fairest Kind of Love follows matchmaker Amber as she is trying to figure out why she can't clearly see matches anymore. Amber soon meets a young girl who is also a matchmaker. Unfortunately, the girl's parents aren't understanding of her gift and think she needs to conceal her magic. Meanwhile, Ivy is slowly dying since losing her siren powers by trying to save her sister. Amber and Amani decide to take a road trip to meet the matchmaker's fairy family to try to save Ivy and get maybe fix Amber's matchmaking. Things quickly spiral out of control as Ivy meets her match and he flies off in a fit of rage. Soon they are all trying to save each other before things get way out of hand.
This book was my absolute least favorite out of the entire series. It felt so forced and so scattered. There was so much happening between Amber not seeing matches clearly, Ivy dying, Jane the matchmaker with awful parents and no support, and her brother Peter who basically got high on magic and spiraled out of control. I wish that just a couple issues had been selected and used instead of trying to cram every idea that ever happened with the series into one book. I honestly felt like Jane the child matchmaker could have been left out of the entire thing. She had such a minor role in the entire book that I don't really know why she was in it to begin with. Also Peter and Ivy's "love story" really took away from Charlie and Amber. This book was a hot mess and had way too much happening in the magical realm.
On the flip side, I got really nostalgic when Amber and Amani spent their last day together before Amani went to college. It made me think back to my best friend and I on our last day before we both moved off to college. We had lunch at a restaurant in our town. Afterward, we literally stood in the parking lot crying and hugging because we didn't know what we were going to do without each other. We laugh about it now and we have talked about how we both thought that our friendship wouldn't survive us being at college. We both thought we would make new best friends and completely forget about each other. Our friendship endured and we now live about 8 hours apart, showing that distance doesn't change things. Getting to reminisce about moving to college was probably the best part of the book.
This book was a bit of a letdown. I wish that it had been a little more organized and a little less cluttered in the storyline department. Overall, it was a good series. I would give the entire series a 4, but give this book only a 3.
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