224 reviews for:

Metro 2035

Dmitry Glukhovsky

3.72 AVERAGE

j1o1ker's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

aleksandrakk's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

scarlett_waffles's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

trashvizier's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

mer276's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

mdsl's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

marketa_alonsy's review against another edition

5.0

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Trochu mě mrzí, že to není samostatná kniha mimo sérii Metra, protože pro mě záhadný a hororový svět plný duchů a nevysvětlitelných věcí, které podle mě dělají Metro Metrem zničila.
To mě mrzí.
Na druhou stranu u toho mrazilo víc, než může mrazit z kterýkoliv příšery - i tý záhadný. Tady se prostě jen ukazuje, jaké příšery jsou lidi. A jak příšerně snadno s nimi jde manipulovat.
Škoda, že to ten skvělej svět z minulých knih úplně smazalo.

femti11's review against another edition

3.0

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Better than the second one, and highly political. The Metro feels like it's shrunk, which might be on purpose, to make it feel more claustrophobic, or it might be because it's not where Glukhovsky's interests lie in this novel. The characters aren't super well developed, and it's still quite the sausage fest, but on the plus side it does deal with the thing that ruins the suspension of disbelief in the other two books, namely it's highly unlikely that the entire world would be wiped out, even if perhaps a lot of the major cities were.

girl_vampirka's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional

mormengil's review against another edition

4.0

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The third book in the Metro trilogy is the biggest departure in overall tone from the first one.

In this one, all the supernatural, the non human horrors and the palpable threat of the darkness, are substituted by more anthropocentric horrors wonders and threats. And a fair bit of whimsy.

Despite this though, I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and my 4 star rating is more of a 4.5 as I liked it more than metro 2034. This one features more of the travel around the metro feel of the original, and we get to see changes in familiar places and new and fairly amusing and horrifying locations.

The ending to this book left me with a huge feeling of disappointment. Not at the book, but at the nature of humans. Without going into too many spoilers, finishing this book coincided with elections in my country, and the feeling I got from my compatriots was the same I got from the people of this book:

Spoiler

People fear and loathe change, and would much rather suffer the miserable lives they lead, than make an attempt at a better future

If you read and disliked metro 2034, should you give this one a chance? Personally I'd say yes, unless all you wanted from this series were mutants, horrors, beasts and the supernatural.