Thinking about how Gaea said "They cannot stop me from breaking your spirit" to Leo and caused the death of Esperanza Valdez, whose name literally means "hope"
There is something special about reading a book series and getting to the last book.
You've been with these characters for so long. Laughing with them, crying with them, seeing them grow up, witnessing their surroundings change.
And this is their final stand. This is what the previous books have been building up to. Most of the characters won't even make it to the next series. Maybe just as a thought. A regret. A lesson. But we will never see them again.
Then there is the main character. And how they finally know what they are doing. What they WANT to be doing. They were just a kid a few months ago but now they are fighting for their life. Their actions are more prepared, more thought out. They no longer possess naivety. They've grown. And their relationships have grown. And maybe they finally get together with the person they were meant to be with.
All of these and the book itself keeps referencing their past adventures. With every reference you remember exactly how you felt while you were reading those moments. Maybe you remember what was going on in your life when you were reading those past books. Perhaps these books were the only good things when you look back to that time of your life.But you don't feel sad.
You feel glad. And you feel happy. And they will be with you even if there is no next series. They have forever altered your life in the best way possible.
This is probably why the last book of a series is almost always my favourite one.
Odysseus is stronger than me bc the moment a cyclops killed my best friend I would've dropped his "greet the world with opens arms" philosophy real quick