Book(s): Pure, Apollyon, Sentinel
ISBN13(s): 9780983157229, 9781937053161, 9781937053574
Average Ratings: 4.36, 4.43, 4.51
My Ratings: 2 Stars, 1 Star, 4 Stars
Hey peoples! It's been a while since my last post because I've been finishing up the Covenant series and my thoughts for each book were pretty much the same. Soo I thought I would avoid being repetitive by combing all of the books into a single post. I have finals in two weeks and I should probably be studying so I'm going to make this as brief as possible. But well... 3 books. So this will be interesting.
I was really hating life in book 3 and 4. Especially 4 (excuse me. Apollyon) Alex has to deal with the fact that she's battling good and evil inside of her in a pretty literal sense. That whole concept is a pretty common trope that is honestly starting to push the fine line between trope and cliche. The whole 'Am I good? Am I bad? What if I'm actually a monster? But... I have to be a hero. Right?' thing is actually really cool if <--- That's a huge if) it's done well. The idea adds a lot of depth to a character because black and white 'good' and 'evil' characters are actually worse since they are dangerously close to being cardboard characters. Sorry Superman.
But these books were sickeningly cliche. Alex's humor seemed to get lazier throughout the series. Maybe I was just getting tired of it but by the end of Apollyon all of the jokes just seemed trite. *cracks old man back* I don't understand why these youngin's find this so funny. I'm pretty sure I said this in my last two post about the series, but I must be missing something! There are so many good reviews for this series and I have a good friend who recommended these to me who absolutely adores Alex and Aiden. But I just... meh. I'm usually the one who loves everything but for some reason I didn't with this one. Then again, two of my other book club friends got through book one and wanted to throw it at a wall. So... Maybe i'm not crazy.
However I gave the last book a much higher rating because I think the series ended really well. I wont go into specifics because of spoilers. But Alex actually did have a noticeable shift around book four and definitely in book 5. She was much less impulsive and more mature. She settles whatever childish feud she had with Lea. She also makes the realization that her actions can affect people other than herself which is a big thing! Alex always seemed borderline selfish to me but she started to lose that a little bit at the end of Apollyon. All of the loose ends are tied up in the end of the series and of course, I was glad that Seth managed to redeem himself. I always thought he was a really interesting character, more so than Aiden and maybe even Alex. He was almost certainly my favorite character in the series. Aaand he's getting his own spinoff series. Should I read it? I don't know. I'm kinda debating that. It will be three books and part one came out about 4 months ago.
Overall, this series annoyed me a lot. I almost stopped reading halfway through book 4 but I have this annoying thing where if I start something I absolutley must finish it. Call it persistance, call it OCD. Both are accurate. But there were times I found it amusing, especially early in the series. So... for all 5 books I would give it an average of 2.5 maybe 3 stars.
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