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Helix: Scourge of Bones (Helix, #3) by Pat Flewwelling

cassanette's review

5.0

"He made murderers of us all, Ishmael thought. Grabbed us by the saviour-complex and showed us who we really are. Monsters. Every one of us."

Before diving into the finale of the Helix trilogy... Prepare tissues. A lot of tissues. I cannot stress this enough.

This book is about reclaiming your power.

This book is about fighting back after having been abused and wronged.

This book is about struggling but finding yourself after having been lost for too long.

Finding home, in the most unlikely of places.

This book is about family.

Helix is very dark series, dealing with dark topics. It's a study of how seemingly good intentions can lead to doom, what happens when people think themselves better than God. It's not afraid to get its hands dirty in driving the point home and at times things seem hopeless, but the light at the end of the tunnel is bright and brilliant. Oh, how it shines!

There is heartbreak and sacrifice, obviously. There are uncomfortable truths that see the light of day. There are tears of powerlessness and despair. But if not for the moments when you stumble and fall, there wouldn't be those when you get back up again. The ending feels paid-for and truly earned. Sometimes, you lose everything, only to gain something new. Something better.

I did have some pacing issues with this installment. The middle part of it, where we deal with CIRCE, search for Jay and the preparations for the media stunt, got kind of.... boring at times. It was set-up, I know, shifting pieces into place for a satisfying endgame. That worked. But still.

Also, I expected finally meeting Haberman would be a bigger deal.

THE EPILOGUE IS EVERYTHING I NEVER DARED HOPE FOR AND MORE.

Goodbye, to a series that changed me as a person.*

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Except not really goodbye because there's a continuation that comes out in 2019!!! I have been truly blessed. I love these characters to death.