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4.0
As I wrote in my review of #1 in this series, I wish I could remember where I first heard about it so I could thank/credit the source/person. I plowed through this installment in one day as there is plenty of action and well-developed characters to keep me reading. Now to wait for the final installment.
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5.0
A wonderful second installment in the thrilling dystopian sci-fi Continuum Trilogy, [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202], picks up right where [b:The 13th Continuum|25739965|The 13th Continuum (Continuum, #1)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1441313530s/25739965.jpg|45579375] left off. Myra Jackson, her little brother Tinker, and her friends are on The Surface of the Post-Doom earth, and are on their epic quest to find the 1st Continuum. We also check in with Aero Wright and his companions from the Second Continuum, who are also on their way to the First Continuum as well.
One of the many favorite things I have of this series is the prologue flashbacks to a selected Before Doom scene. Seeing the selection process of Aero and Myra’s ancestors – as well as the deliberation process into how the Chosen were selected and placed into their Continuums – was incredibly intriguing, and we find out more on this later on towards the end of [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202]. Author [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg]’s skillfulness in seeding in clues that have a massive payoff towards the end of this volume in the Continuum Trilogy shows incredible mastery in crafting [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202] into a successful second book that advanced the plot in a significant way that has purpose in moving along the stories of all of the characters we have come to know and love with great purpose. We get to see Myra, Aero, Tinker, and friends grow as they journey across earth from where they all respectively crash landed from the Thirteenth Continuum and the Second Continuum, and painstakingly try to find their way to the First Continuum.
We get to see the toll being a Carrier has on both Myra and Aero, the immense burden of carrying the hope of survival for their people has on both them. The people they have lost along the way, making sure that those people who sacrificed their lives for the cause did not die in vain.
I must commend [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] on the incredible development of the character introduced briefly in the epilogue of Book 1: [b:The 13th Continuum|25739965|The 13th Continuum (Continuum, #1)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1441313530s/25739965.jpg|45579375] – Seeker – one of the new characters we meet in [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202] as a significant POV character. Her story and journey as become one of my favorite viewpoints into this incrediblly vast and expansive world that [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] has created in such an immensely masterful way. She is unlike any character that I have read in contemporary literature, yet her uniqueness and her connection to another one of my favorite character’s in [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg]’s universe.
Without spoiling the amazing reveals and surprises that occur – especially in the tail end of [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202], I must highlight the continued love and admiration I have for the incredible attention to detail [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] executes throughout the course of the Continuum Trilogy. The historical journal entries, flashbacks, memories, Constitutional Amendments and Laws. The deep mythos of the thirteen Continuums that [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] has created is intriguing and compelling; and as a reader, I feel such a high level of trust in reading [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg]’s stories, because I feel confident in her very capable hands that any and all questions that may arise as we journey on with Myra, Aero, and the many other characters that populate [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg]’s universe will be answered in due time. Every character has their own unique motivation, and (as we see from the Before Doom scene in Chapter 0, to the final roundtable near the closing of [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202]) [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] has very thoughtfully chosen to reveal bits and pieces of information in a very calculated way that maximizes our emotional response to the story to the fullest.
There are not many books that, when I finish reading them, I feel the immense need to take a day to digest the contents of the story and mourn the end of the book in order to move on with my day. [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg]’s writing is one of those rare finds that elicits a visceral emotional response from her readers, and manages to still leave the reader wanting more. I cannot wait until I am able to reunite with Myra, Aero, Seeker, and everyone else in [b:The United Continuums: The Continuum Trilogy, Book 3|31921412|The United Continuums The Continuum Trilogy, Book 3|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1475832697s/31921412.jpg|52574081]; and find out what [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] has in store for them, and for us!
I received a copy of this book from The Fantastic Flying Book Club for the purpose of providing an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of this book. [Honest aside: I loved this book so much, I purchased 3 hard copies of this book for myself and friends.]
One of the many favorite things I have of this series is the prologue flashbacks to a selected Before Doom scene. Seeing the selection process of Aero and Myra’s ancestors – as well as the deliberation process into how the Chosen were selected and placed into their Continuums – was incredibly intriguing, and we find out more on this later on towards the end of [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202]. Author [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg]’s skillfulness in seeding in clues that have a massive payoff towards the end of this volume in the Continuum Trilogy shows incredible mastery in crafting [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202] into a successful second book that advanced the plot in a significant way that has purpose in moving along the stories of all of the characters we have come to know and love with great purpose. We get to see Myra, Aero, Tinker, and friends grow as they journey across earth from where they all respectively crash landed from the Thirteenth Continuum and the Second Continuum, and painstakingly try to find their way to the First Continuum.
We get to see the toll being a Carrier has on both Myra and Aero, the immense burden of carrying the hope of survival for their people has on both them. The people they have lost along the way, making sure that those people who sacrificed their lives for the cause did not die in vain.
I must commend [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] on the incredible development of the character introduced briefly in the epilogue of Book 1: [b:The 13th Continuum|25739965|The 13th Continuum (Continuum, #1)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1441313530s/25739965.jpg|45579375] – Seeker – one of the new characters we meet in [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202] as a significant POV character. Her story and journey as become one of my favorite viewpoints into this incrediblly vast and expansive world that [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] has created in such an immensely masterful way. She is unlike any character that I have read in contemporary literature, yet her uniqueness and her connection to another one of my favorite character’s in [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg]’s universe.
Without spoiling the amazing reveals and surprises that occur – especially in the tail end of [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202], I must highlight the continued love and admiration I have for the incredible attention to detail [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] executes throughout the course of the Continuum Trilogy. The historical journal entries, flashbacks, memories, Constitutional Amendments and Laws. The deep mythos of the thirteen Continuums that [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] has created is intriguing and compelling; and as a reader, I feel such a high level of trust in reading [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg]’s stories, because I feel confident in her very capable hands that any and all questions that may arise as we journey on with Myra, Aero, and the many other characters that populate [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg]’s universe will be answered in due time. Every character has their own unique motivation, and (as we see from the Before Doom scene in Chapter 0, to the final roundtable near the closing of [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202]) [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] has very thoughtfully chosen to reveal bits and pieces of information in a very calculated way that maximizes our emotional response to the story to the fullest.
There are not many books that, when I finish reading them, I feel the immense need to take a day to digest the contents of the story and mourn the end of the book in order to move on with my day. [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg]’s writing is one of those rare finds that elicits a visceral emotional response from her readers, and manages to still leave the reader wanting more. I cannot wait until I am able to reunite with Myra, Aero, Seeker, and everyone else in [b:The United Continuums: The Continuum Trilogy, Book 3|31921412|The United Continuums The Continuum Trilogy, Book 3|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1475832697s/31921412.jpg|52574081]; and find out what [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] has in store for them, and for us!
I received a copy of this book from The Fantastic Flying Book Club for the purpose of providing an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of this book. [Honest aside: I loved this book so much, I purchased 3 hard copies of this book for myself and friends.]
travelingbooknerds's review
5.0
A wonderful second installment in the thrilling dystopian sci-fi Continuum Trilogy, [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202], picks up right where [b:The 13th Continuum|25739965|The 13th Continuum (Continuum, #1)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1441313530s/25739965.jpg|45579375] left off. Myra Jackson, her little brother Tinker, and her friends are on The Surface of the Post-Doom earth, and are on their epic quest to find the 1st Continuum. We also check in with Aero Wright and his companions from the Second Continuum, who are also on their way to the First Continuum as well.
One of the many favorite things I have of this series is the prologue flashbacks to a selected Before Doom scene. Seeing the selection process of Aero and Myra’s ancestors – as well as the deliberation process into how the Chosen were selected and placed into their Continuums – was incredibly intriguing, and we find out more on this later on towards the end of [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202]. Author [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg]’s skillfulness in seeding in clues that have a massive payoff towards the end of this volume in the Continuum Trilogy shows incredible mastery in crafting [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202] into a successful second book that advanced the plot in a significant way that has purpose in moving along the stories of all of the characters we have come to know and love with great purpose. We get to see Myra, Aero, Tinker, and friends grow as they journey across earth from where they all respectively crash landed from the Thirteenth Continuum and the Second Continuum, and painstakingly try to find their way to the First Continuum.
We get to see the toll being a Carrier has on both Myra and Aero, the immense burden of carrying the hope of survival for their people has on both them. The people they have lost along the way, making sure that those people who sacrificed their lives for the cause did not die in vain.
I must commend [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] on the incredible development of the character introduced briefly in the epilogue of Book 1: [b:The 13th Continuum|25739965|The 13th Continuum (Continuum, #1)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1441313530s/25739965.jpg|45579375] – Seeker – one of the new characters we meet in [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202] as a significant POV character. Her story and journey as become one of my favorite viewpoints into this incrediblly vast and expansive world that [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] has created in such an immensely masterful way. She is unlike any character that I have read in contemporary literature, yet her uniqueness and her connection to another one of my favorite character’s in [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg]’s universe.
Without spoiling the amazing reveals and surprises that occur – especially in the tail end of [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202], I must highlight the continued love and admiration I have for the incredible attention to detail [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] executes throughout the course of the Continuum Trilogy. The historical journal entries, flashbacks, memories, Constitutional Amendments and Laws. The deep mythos of the thirteen Continuums that [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] has created is intriguing and compelling; and as a reader, I feel such a high level of trust in reading [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg]’s stories, because I feel confident in her very capable hands that any and all questions that may arise as we journey on with Myra, Aero, and the many other characters that populate [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg]’s universe will be answered in due time. Every character has their own unique motivation, and (as we see from the Before Doom scene in Chapter 0, to the final roundtable near the closing of [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202]) [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] has very thoughtfully chosen to reveal bits and pieces of information in a very calculated way that maximizes our emotional response to the story to the fullest.
There are not many books that, when I finish reading them, I feel the immense need to take a day to digest the contents of the story and mourn the end of the book in order to move on with my day. [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg]’s writing is one of those rare finds that elicits a visceral emotional response from her readers, and manages to still leave the reader wanting more. I cannot wait until I am able to reunite with Myra, Aero, Seeker, and everyone else in [b:The United Continuums: The Continuum Trilogy, Book 3|31921412|The United Continuums The Continuum Trilogy, Book 3|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1475832697s/31921412.jpg|52574081]; and find out what [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] has in store for them, and for us!
I received a copy of this book from The Fantastic Flying Book Club for the purpose of providing an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of this book. [Honest aside: I loved this book so much, I purchased 3 hard copies of this book for myself and friends.]
One of the many favorite things I have of this series is the prologue flashbacks to a selected Before Doom scene. Seeing the selection process of Aero and Myra’s ancestors – as well as the deliberation process into how the Chosen were selected and placed into their Continuums – was incredibly intriguing, and we find out more on this later on towards the end of [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202]. Author [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg]’s skillfulness in seeding in clues that have a massive payoff towards the end of this volume in the Continuum Trilogy shows incredible mastery in crafting [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202] into a successful second book that advanced the plot in a significant way that has purpose in moving along the stories of all of the characters we have come to know and love with great purpose. We get to see Myra, Aero, Tinker, and friends grow as they journey across earth from where they all respectively crash landed from the Thirteenth Continuum and the Second Continuum, and painstakingly try to find their way to the First Continuum.
We get to see the toll being a Carrier has on both Myra and Aero, the immense burden of carrying the hope of survival for their people has on both them. The people they have lost along the way, making sure that those people who sacrificed their lives for the cause did not die in vain.
I must commend [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] on the incredible development of the character introduced briefly in the epilogue of Book 1: [b:The 13th Continuum|25739965|The 13th Continuum (Continuum, #1)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1441313530s/25739965.jpg|45579375] – Seeker – one of the new characters we meet in [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202] as a significant POV character. Her story and journey as become one of my favorite viewpoints into this incrediblly vast and expansive world that [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] has created in such an immensely masterful way. She is unlike any character that I have read in contemporary literature, yet her uniqueness and her connection to another one of my favorite character’s in [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg]’s universe.
Without spoiling the amazing reveals and surprises that occur – especially in the tail end of [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202], I must highlight the continued love and admiration I have for the incredible attention to detail [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] executes throughout the course of the Continuum Trilogy. The historical journal entries, flashbacks, memories, Constitutional Amendments and Laws. The deep mythos of the thirteen Continuums that [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] has created is intriguing and compelling; and as a reader, I feel such a high level of trust in reading [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg]’s stories, because I feel confident in her very capable hands that any and all questions that may arise as we journey on with Myra, Aero, and the many other characters that populate [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg]’s universe will be answered in due time. Every character has their own unique motivation, and (as we see from the Before Doom scene in Chapter 0, to the final roundtable near the closing of [b:Return of the Continuums|30178732|Return of the Continuums (13th Continuum, #2)|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474696847s/30178732.jpg|50621202]) [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] has very thoughtfully chosen to reveal bits and pieces of information in a very calculated way that maximizes our emotional response to the story to the fullest.
There are not many books that, when I finish reading them, I feel the immense need to take a day to digest the contents of the story and mourn the end of the book in order to move on with my day. [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg]’s writing is one of those rare finds that elicits a visceral emotional response from her readers, and manages to still leave the reader wanting more. I cannot wait until I am able to reunite with Myra, Aero, Seeker, and everyone else in [b:The United Continuums: The Continuum Trilogy, Book 3|31921412|The United Continuums The Continuum Trilogy, Book 3|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1475832697s/31921412.jpg|52574081]; and find out what [a:Jennifer Brody|14248804|Jennifer Brody|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1478818332p2/14248804.jpg] has in store for them, and for us!
I received a copy of this book from The Fantastic Flying Book Club for the purpose of providing an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of this book. [Honest aside: I loved this book so much, I purchased 3 hard copies of this book for myself and friends.]
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