Finally, the Four Seasons series has been completed! A series that hit that ground running with Tunnel to Summer, increased its momentum with Wait For Me Yesterday in Spring, tripped up a little but kept going with An Autumn in Amber, then fell face first with An Endless Winter. Yeah, this ain't it, chief. There's so many decisions with the story in this book that just goes against anything I've read by Hachimoku previously. The location never changes due to the loop resetting when you leave the park, so the story gets so repetitive. The main characters felt really meh for lack of a better word.Unlike the other three books, the relationship between them didn't develop, it just kind of appeared towards the end. Asebi was cute but yeah... development wasn't great. The side characters felt pretty useless, too. They felt more like a nuisance than anything. Story was just poor in my opinion. I don't want to get into spoilers so I can't really write much about why I don't like it.

The art also took a major drop, too. This is most likely just me nitpicking, but go and compare the cover art for all four seasons. The lighting and shading on Winter's cover is so much less detailed and feels more like a frame from an anime rather than an illustrations with how flat the colour is. This extends to the inside art too, it feels so rushed and poorly drawn. And maybe it was rushed, but I've also noticed a drop in Kukka's (the illustrator) art on social media as a whole, too. It looks like she's stopped doing the amazingly drawn illustrations from 2020-time and has started to lean more into actual animations. Her animations are sick by the way, really fluid. But they utilise less detail on the characters with flat colours because of the frame count. This has started appearing on her book illustrations too now, which sucks because they're (obviously) not animations. Honestly, if Kukka keeps this up, I'd want an illustrator switch which is a shame because her 2020 art for Summer and Spring (and to an extent Autumn if you only count the coloured illustrations because the chapter illustrations face the same issues as Winter) is absolutely amazing, some of the best LN art I've seen and when I see her out I instantly think Mei Hachimoku.

If you want to read this for the sake of completing the series, go ahead. But please, PLEASE do NOT read this as a first entry. Read the author's best works, like Tunnel to Summer, Wait For Me Yesterday in Spring, or The Mimosa Confessions, and read this later.