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3.52 AVERAGE
3.52 AVERAGE
Probably this would be more like 2.5, but it's an automatic loss of a half star when the author writes about a character being half Jewish. NOT POSSIBLE. So, it wasn't THAT bad, but it definitely wasn't great. Janie is a tad self-centered. While I know she has this issue, it's just a lot sometimes. The narrator is slightly childish sounding, and Janie is supposed to be out of high school at this point. I don't like it when the adults in the YA novels are hard to take seriously. They seem to be just as mature as the kids, which doesn't run true. I guess this was an okay installment.
Interesting read. I'm still processing this one. I'll write my review within the next few days.
fast-paced
Unfortunately this book did a big backslide for me. As a whole, it felt like a pretty unnecessary addition to the set. At the end of the last book, we left Janie off with her newfound confidence and decision to use her power for good, go to school, and be on the force. Now, she's avoiding Cabel (the one person she trusts the most and loves), she's constantly bottling up her feelings, she refuses to talk to literally anyone about anything and ends up making her own assumptions and conclusions. I understand her mental turmoil between choosing a life of isolation vs. a future of blindness and becoming disabled in her hands. Where I'm finding the problem is, that it feels like all of the character development Janie made in the first two books seems to have vanished. She's bitchy and secretive, she doesn't want to actually work through her issues, and she just get's really whiney and annoying. She almost destroyed the best relationship she had had in her entire life because she came to a conclusion on her own without any regard for her partner's feelings. I just don't think this was necessary to the series.
short read. not an epic ending, but mcmann does excellent character development. good end to a series.
I know not many people were fans of this series, especially this last book, but I thought it was really good. The main character was left with this impossible choice, I didn't think I was going to like the outcome, but everything turned out in the end. This was a great conclusion to Janie and Cabel's story!