ISBN 13: 9781250036421
How I found This Book: Book Club!
Average Goodreads Rating: 4.07 (out of 1,944 ratings)
My Rating: 4 out of 5 Popsicle sticks
Hello blog! I feel like it's been a thousand years since the last post. The book I'm reading is taking me a long time (*spoiler alert* I'm reading The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver) I like it so far and I think I'll have a post for it in the next few days. However I did get a reprieve from that AP book, for something lighter, yay book club! Anywho! To the conclusion of this trilogy!
For the third time in a row, I zipped through this book in a single day. This series has so much fast paced action that it's pretty hard to put down. A lot of my comments about this book are things that i've said in the previous two books. Mostly with characters but however... I mean, uh There are similarities of the character traits from previous books; however I did notice further development in the last book. (Sorry about that. My english teacher told me to start using a semi colon to connect sentences with however. It's annoying but i'm trying to break the habit) As I was saying! Astrid still isn't my favorite character of all time but near the end of the series she got more tolerable. Maybe it's just that i'm used to her by now but I think that seeing her actually start to feel emotions made her seem more human and less robotic.
Dean is more or less the same. I've seen on Emmy Laybourne's blogs that she intended to make Dean come to grips with 'doing the right thing' throughout the series. But honestly I wouldn't have noticed without reading that post. Literary tropes are harder to see in YA literature, since you aren't trying to really analyze them most of the time. Dean also shows more 'fatherly' qualities as Astrid gets closer to having the baby which I found a little cheesy.
Niko and Josie! Oh my gosh Niko is such a sweet guy for rescuing her! I love the two of them so much. In fact I found myself wishing they were the two main characters instead of Astrid and Dean. Maybe a spinoff? *nudge nudge Emmy Laybourne* Josie was really traumatized after killing a man in defense of the kids, and I could see the change in her after it happened. I almost didn't even recognize her personality at all, she was so different. But once she started looking after some little kids again and was reunited with Niko we started to see her come back around.
The conclusion! The final chapters before we draw all three of these books together. Astrid has the baby, a little boy named Charlie, Sahalia finds her father. Dean and Alex get their parents back and they all live together on Niko's uncle's farm. Happily ever after. Except Jake. The drunk, depressed dad of Astrid's baby. I never liked Jake but sheesh that seemed a little cold. The book ends at such an odd moment though! Right before Dean introduces Astrid his ''future wife'' and ''son''. I just kept wondering how they would react. You don't see your son for a month and suddenly he's engaged to a girl who's just given birth to someone else's kid. That seems kinda surprising don't you think? I don't know, maybe i'm over thinking that part. But overall I thought it was a sweet ending.
I liked how the series flowed into one whole story instead of three separate bits. The start of book one talks about how he wished he told his mom he loved her before the disaster and the last line of book three had him finding her after it's all over and telling her he loves her.
I thought it was pretty sweet. I'll miss the Monument 14... *sigh* maybe even Astrid. lol
Thanks for Reading -R
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