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The Whisperers War and Commonwealth felt a bit rushed but I think it was all well done. I like the ending - I like that it isn’t so different from the show but also a bit disheartened.

nichole1988's review

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

patrickspen's review

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dark emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

4.5

maddy707's review

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3.0

Pros
- Andrea's death was incredibly well written and emotional. It serves to further incentives Rick's cause. It's the closest I came to crying in the whole series.

Cons
- The end to the Whisper's War was stupid. The Whisper's had so much potential to be terrifying, and they were at first. Killing Alpha was a bold move. But it felt like nothing came of it. One show off with Beta and then Aaron and Jesus come along and are like "lol bye Beta, *stab*." How anticlimactic. It feels like Kirkman got through 95% of writing the Whisper's, thought of the Commonwealth idea and wanted to move straight into it.

Overall, I feel this book was the weakest out of the 4. However, I give the series as a whole 4/5.

wetclimatecountries's review against another edition

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dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

mugly crying cause it happened or whatever

knod78's review

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4.0

Wow what a great ending, I assume it’s an ending to this series. I was on my toes and finished the whole damn thing in like three days. Don’t get me wrong, there were issues how we skipped through time and didn’t explain anything. And a certain person died in kind of a shitty way much how I felt when Carl died on the show. Dwight was very annoying and whiny. Plus, Jesus changed his mind about someone and it was fast forward to relationship quick. Hershel's thing was lame though and his reasonings for doing the dead show was to be closer to his dead dad...ummmm what?! Glenn would have never approved and it should have been up to Maggie to make sure that didn't happen. Speaking of Maggie, her character just didn't do it for me. She started out strong, but she just got whinier and whinier.

I LOVED Princess character and wished we had more page time with her.

It’s funny, if I had read the first compendium before the show, I would have never continued. But now I’m sad to see them end. Compendium 3 is still my favorite. And Negan really shines in both compendiums. Anyhoo...here’s to the walking dead.

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