So I guess Cora is effectively dead as the person we've known over these past three books, which I don't mind because jfc, the girl was such an annoying whiny jelly-spine, but I really, really, really like how it's delivered, because you're gearing up for the finish and it's "wow, she's grown quite a lot, hasn't she, I now get what Sol meant about her finally seeming like an actual adult, heh, look, she's even sassing Paris about her silly little journalism, as if that could do anything, and she stopped investing all her emotional well-being into the newest orphan, phew, wonder where the desire to dominate Earth came from, that doesn't have much to do with what the story's been about, does it, and she doesn't even remember why she objected in the first place? eh, whatevs, wonder if the high-language experiments progress in the future books, she did note repeatedly how it was only Ampersand entering her consciousness, never the other way arounOMFG HE ATE HER MIND 🤯"