Ok so I finished it and uh.

Edit: OK RANT TIME this is going to be so disorganized
1) Til the last paragraph I was holding out hope for an explanation of the whole Ethan thing but. Welp. That never happened. That uh...never happened. That's really all I have to say on that, I think I've made my point.
2) So after all the shitting on Nate and Anon for killing Swarm and just all the buildup for the "don't kill people" part are we really gonna ignore the fact that both Chizara and Kelsie killed people? For both of them that was the last thing we ever read inside their heads. And that was all the emotional consequences we ever got on that. Like. What. Ok Chizara I can kind of handwave because she was trying to stop Piper and her evil plan EVEN THOUGH THE BUTTON GOT PUSHED ANYWAY SO THE DEATH WAS KIND OF POINTLESS AND EVEN IN THE MOMENT WHEN CHIZARA DIDN'T THINK IT WAS POINTLESS SHE SAID SHE FELT LIKE A DEMON.
3) Anyway, even without that...Kelsie/Swarm just...killed that guy.....ripped him to pieces. What the fuck. What the actual frickety frack was that. She just chose that guy, a fellow Zero, to "sacrifice" and then used her Swarm power to rip his flesh apart in some sort of cannabalistic hive mind ritual. And then she went and broadcasted love and good vibes to the world and the fact that she just killed a kid had absolutely no effect on anything. And she felt like 2% shaken up about it for two seconds. I'm sorry but I'm calling bs on this one. This might actually be my biggest Qualm.
4) For that matter, the last thing we read in Nate's head was that he got conked out and then looked up and felt proud that one of his minions was 1/3 of the new world order. That's...really creepy tbh. Nate was really creepy in this book.
5) I was So Ready to read about how Verity and Piper apparently were carrying on some sort of illicit thing and why Verity wanted to protect Piper and why Phan wanted to protect Verity and what
Verity's actual name was, and how she felt about her power broadcast around the world and making her apparently traumatizing childhood a reality for everyone but none of that was ever explained further. It was just...dropped. And for that matter, what happened to Phan? They were so good and I wanna know more about them dangit
6) Yknow I'd rant about the consequences of a world that allows kids with these dangerous-ass powers that have the power to kill people to practice them freely, especially when it's already been established that the kids with said powers kinda fuck up everything when they use them, but that was almost a literal footnote in the book so I'm not gonna get into it.
7) Nice bookending with the "more coffee" thing and the diner. Except this time Ethan has Sonia Sonic with him. And he's like the little mermaid now. I'm still up in the air about all this omniscient infodump at the end, but I'm so here for him and Sonia getting coffee tbh
I'll probably rant more later when I think of more to say