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Grande fan ! Je l'avais déjà lu, et je l'ai relu pour finir la trilogie avec la mémoire des premiers romans en tête. Toujours un régal, une histoire émouvante, et qui dans le même temps vous fera grincer des dents, de peur... Ou de frustration devant ce que vous savez, et que les personnages ne voient pas 😂 L'écriture est délicieuse, le livre peut sembler très long et pourtant, ce n'est pas le cas, je n'y ai pas vu de longueurs déplorables.
Je retire cependant une infime portion de points pour une once d'excessif patriotisme et de religion à laquelle je ne suis clairement pas affiliée, ni, donc, sensible.

audra_spiven's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

vdvanl's review against another edition

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4.0

3.5, rounded to 4. The first 1/3 was absolutely gripping. I found the effectively all-new cast of characters introduced after that to be less well-drawn and really difficult to care about at the same level. It was also excessively long and felt like too much of a pastiche of other books that I kept wishing I was reading instead.

jmtanner's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

Satisfying read. I really liked the characters and was rooting for them. Looking forward to reading the next one though I might need to read something lighter first. Very reminiscent of Stephen King.

readingbecomesme's review against another edition

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3.0

I really wanted to love this book. I had some great people that love it and thought I would easily agree. However this one just a mid grade for me. It was not awful but I did not love it. I would have been happy if it was much shorter, like 2/3rds shorter.
There were some great characters that I wanted to connect with and the flow of the story moved fast enough but at the same time I felt like it took me forever to read it.
Personally, I think I would have liked a novel from just Sarah's perspective much more.

booyakki's review against another edition

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5.0

Really excellent. Highly recommended. Cannot wait for The Twelve to come out.

lindzlovesreading's review against another edition

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3.0

I admit this novel has a lot of faults. Cronin falls over himself through the plot picking up new strands in the last quarter of the novel. Ahhh so it's meant to be a trilogy. Too many characters doing too many things and not all explained. Ahhhh its meant to be a trilogy.

But I couldn't put the thing down, and it is a heavy book. The first 200 or so pages are magic. The distruction of world into the next will have you leaning forward so much that you will fall off your chair. I was even dreaming about it, not many novels stay with me.

Some of Cronin's imgaery is fantastic, an abadoned Las Vegas torn and broken. The 'virals' themselves. Charactersations did need work, they tend to bleed into one another.

But this novel is still worth reading, merely because of the massive scope of the thing, it is truely epic. You are completely emersed in this world which though fantasic completely believable.

But he better explain himself in part two!!!!

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