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lakmus's review against another edition
Gave up on page 360.
It was pretty good for the first two or three parts - and then we jumped a 100 years ahead and it basically became the Hunger Games. May be it gets better again, but I read the last chapter and I am honestly not mentally prepared to read the whole series, and neither I am to finish this hefty volume.
Gonna keep it for a long plane trip or something.
It was pretty good for the first two or three parts - and then we jumped a 100 years ahead and it basically became the Hunger Games. May be it gets better again, but I read the last chapter and I am honestly not mentally prepared to read the whole series, and neither I am to finish this hefty volume.
Gonna keep it for a long plane trip or something.
davechua's review against another edition
3.0
Act 1 is beautifully written but the rest seems to be standard post-apocalyptic fare, and reads like it was written by someone else. Plot involve a virus that creates violent beings that the book terms as vampires, riding on the current bloodsucker craze.
jobird's review against another edition
5.0
WOW... That was EPIC!!!
Book of the year for me. Amazing!!! I feel like I can't put complete sentences together about this one.
This book is an epic journey. It is written with great emotion and unfolds with mystery. It is about survival and discovery. Told through multiple POV, I at first thought this would be annoying but I actually loved it. You are able to see the whole story from every angle. It was a roller coaster of a journey for me. The Length of it was a worry when I started it and at times I did struggle, It became a love hate relationship. But in the end Love one. I didn't want it to end. I carried it around like a security blanket for the whole week it took me to read it. Now that I have finished it I feel a little lost. I loved picking it up and unraveling a little bit more of the story.
The characters that have been created are so complete and well rounded. I just couldn't get enough of them. I am excited and looking forward to continue on with the story in The Twelve. It is on my christmas list.
I have the feeling that this book is not for everyone. I think that you will either love it or hate it. The length might get to some people and maybe it drags a bit in certain places. But I loved it. What an Adventure!!
Book of the year for me. Amazing!!! I feel like I can't put complete sentences together about this one.
This book is an epic journey. It is written with great emotion and unfolds with mystery. It is about survival and discovery. Told through multiple POV, I at first thought this would be annoying but I actually loved it. You are able to see the whole story from every angle. It was a roller coaster of a journey for me. The Length of it was a worry when I started it and at times I did struggle, It became a love hate relationship. But in the end Love one. I didn't want it to end. I carried it around like a security blanket for the whole week it took me to read it. Now that I have finished it I feel a little lost. I loved picking it up and unraveling a little bit more of the story.
The characters that have been created are so complete and well rounded. I just couldn't get enough of them. I am excited and looking forward to continue on with the story in The Twelve. It is on my christmas list.
I have the feeling that this book is not for everyone. I think that you will either love it or hate it. The length might get to some people and maybe it drags a bit in certain places. But I loved it. What an Adventure!!
theacez's review against another edition
After the first third, it's like a whole new story and becomes crazy slow. Just became a chore to read
jfetridge's review against another edition
5.0
I really liked this and found myself excited for the next time I would be able to read more, something that hadn't happened in a while. It's really long, almost unnecessarily so considering there are two other books, but it was a very well told story. The first part, as everyone has said, is easily the best. I was a little annoyed that everything changed in part two after I had become so invested in the characters from the first part. However, once I got to know the new people and could see where the story was going and how it related to the beginning, I couldn't put the book down. Can't wait to read the next two!
rhondathibodeau54's review against another edition
5.0
I am so sorry that I am done this book....it was so good...hooked me from the beginning, and never let me go!
deltadawn5's review against another edition
3.0
It may seem silly to say that I had no problem believing in the virals, but not that 100 year old canned food and MREs were still fine. There were too many of those unbelievable details for me to love this book. And I thought the ending was very abrupt for as long as the book had gone on without really getting to anything.
bsmith27's review against another edition
4.0
Really really good story about the end of the world. A virus has been unleashed and the 12 infected, infect others turning them into a vampire like animal. Only one girl was originally infected and does not turn into a vampire (smoke, viral, flyer). Amy is the key to stopping the original 12. All the virals are connected to the original one who turned them. The story gets long at points as it changes. At first the story is of the man who goes around finding criminals that volunteer to be a viral. Then this man rescues Amy and takes her to live in a Californian cottage while the world devolves around them. Then Amyives in and runs into a colony. It's 100 years later and the colony survives by using lights at night. Peter, Michael, Alicia, Sarah, Caleb leave because they are going to be out outside of the walls. They have found that Amy is old and may be the key. They attempt to take her to Colorado but also find a society that lives with an agreement with one of the originals, Babcock. They escape and find Peter's brother Theo. Their and his girlfriend mouse who is pregnant end up living in a farmhouse and have the baby, narrowly escaping death at the hands of mouses husband turned viral. Peter and Amy make it to Colorado to find one of the Catholic sisters Lacey is still alive and she shows them how to kill the original 12. Together with the Texas army which Alicia has joined, they kill Babcock. They split in the end of the story, one group going to live in the city where the army is from and the other to kill the originals.