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breezy610's review against another edition
5.0
I love it. It was the prefect ending to a prefect trilogy.
blurrypetals's review against another edition
4.0
Honestly I barely remember what happened in the books before this. It's been too long since Unbecoming (which I read when it first came out) and Evolution (which I also read when it first came out). I just...I was so confused man. I felt like I was being stuffed full of plot contrivances each time I opened the book and I couldn't help snorting every fifty pages or so and yelling "OH, BULLSHIT."
fffffffFUCK man I used to be really excited to find out what was happened but now I just feel like I got cheated.
Okay there's one reason it's 4 stars rather than 3 or 2, because I was close. Usually, this would be a reason I would chuck a book across the room and yell "BULLSHIT" again and that's CHANGING POV. I fucking hate it when authors change points of view if that hasn't been something they've been doing from the beginning, you know? BUT SHIT this changed my mind. Noah's POV brought fresh blood into the deoxygenated husk of what this idea used to be for the last third of the book and when I first saw we were going to be reading from his POV I did groan, but it made things much more exciting and fresh.
That alone would have brought it up to a solid 3, but what brought it to a 4 was the fact that they switching POV rapidly during the sex scene. Yes. That made my perverted self like this book (and LOVE that part). Deal with it, sex scenes are awesome when you get to read them from two points of view BOOM
This is the point at which I realize this will be posted on my Facebook and everyone will be able to see that paragraph up there. Oh well.
This last book was a gyp. I was hoping with the push that Michelle was spending more time on writing it, but nyehhhh it was honestly the worst of the three and it was a total downhill fall from the first book once being one of my favorite books to the second book being okay to this last book just...falling flat on its face instead of delivering what should have felt like genius, sharp punches with each plot point and rather shitting itself in the big reveal.
Sigh.
fffffffFUCK man I used to be really excited to find out what was happened but now I just feel like I got cheated.
Okay there's one reason it's 4 stars rather than 3 or 2, because I was close. Usually, this would be a reason I would chuck a book across the room and yell "BULLSHIT" again and that's CHANGING POV. I fucking hate it when authors change points of view if that hasn't been something they've been doing from the beginning, you know? BUT SHIT this changed my mind. Noah's POV brought fresh blood into the deoxygenated husk of what this idea used to be for the last third of the book and when I first saw we were going to be reading from his POV I did groan, but it made things much more exciting and fresh.
That alone would have brought it up to a solid 3, but what brought it to a 4 was the fact that they switching POV rapidly during the sex scene. Yes. That made my perverted self like this book (and LOVE that part). Deal with it, sex scenes are awesome when you get to read them from two points of view BOOM
This is the point at which I realize this will be posted on my Facebook and everyone will be able to see that paragraph up there. Oh well.
This last book was a gyp. I was hoping with the push that Michelle was spending more time on writing it, but nyehhhh it was honestly the worst of the three and it was a total downhill fall from the first book once being one of my favorite books to the second book being okay to this last book just...falling flat on its face instead of delivering what should have felt like genius, sharp punches with each plot point and rather shitting itself in the big reveal.
Sigh.
beccas_bookreads's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
3.0
sophieshelves's review against another edition
5.0
So these books are my favourite, yes favourite ever! You might think that's a strong way of putting it, but my incredibly high expectations for the final book (and succeeding my expectations by like a billion) just show how amazing these books and Michelle Hodkin is!
At the end of evolution we are left with even more questions than we started it with and this just ties everything up.
I don't want to put any spoilers in this because of how amazing it is, but all my favourite characters continued to develop and I fell in love with them all over again! It was everything, funny, sad and emotional, scary (well worrying is probably more accurate) dramatic, et cetera. (I could go on forever, but I won't.)
Towards the end there is a double point of view and it was done perfectly.
If you only read three books in your life it should be these three because, I don't know about anyone else, but I could read them over and over. And I will.
Also I'm proud to say that I am that much of a nerd when it comes to these books that I can quote loads of things from all three (including Noah's French speech, yeah you read right!!).
At the end of evolution we are left with even more questions than we started it with and this just ties everything up.
I don't want to put any spoilers in this because of how amazing it is, but all my favourite characters continued to develop and I fell in love with them all over again! It was everything, funny, sad and emotional, scary (well worrying is probably more accurate) dramatic, et cetera. (I could go on forever, but I won't.)
Towards the end there is a double point of view and it was done perfectly.
If you only read three books in your life it should be these three because, I don't know about anyone else, but I could read them over and over. And I will.
Also I'm proud to say that I am that much of a nerd when it comes to these books that I can quote loads of things from all three (including Noah's French speech, yeah you read right!!).
sklus's review against another edition
3.0
So, I think I like the first half of the book better than I did the first two books. Then, it got kind of boring towards the end. People were dying and coming back to life left and right. It's a bit overdone. The book could have ended about 13 chapters earlier and it would have been a more compelling ending.
I'm not a big fan of the characters in this series either. I'm only really a fan of the side characters. Mara just bugs me; she has absolutely no redeeming qualities. Noah was even worse at times. Like he says all the right "romantic boy" phrases which are probably why he's a fav, but his self-destructive nature while simultaneously being perfect. He and Mara's characterization make me wonder whether this book is a positive mental health representation. Most books don't cover mental health at all, so this book is a step up in one regard. My issue comes with the fact that .
I'm not a big fan of the characters in this series either. I'm only really a fan of the side characters. Mara just bugs me; she has absolutely no redeeming qualities.
Spoiler
She murders several people, only a few of them for good reason. She is selfish and super murder-y, which isn't my favorite traits when it comes to characters.Spoiler
health issues are part of their "powers." So it's more of a character quirk. It disappears for most of the characters after their powers become complete. I also dislike how mental health workers are the evils one in this.lucyellis's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
asaph95's review against another edition
4.0
Yes yes yes. Loved it. All of it. As per.
Minus the weird bit towards the end. What? Romeo & Juliet x20 much!
Minus the weird bit towards the end. What? Romeo & Juliet x20 much!
melaniep730's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
4.5