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witcheep's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
The plot ties all the loose ends from the first two books into an ornate and tidy knot in a way that I'm in awe witnessing. The last book in this trilogy is the most ambitious one in the series, but it holds up to every expectation I had for it, or even exceeds them. Aurora's End made me hold my breath, gasp, tear up, and laugh. It takes a very capturing and entertaining book to evoke so many visible emotions in me.
I usually greatly dislike the main characters being separated for the bigger part of the book, but in Aurora's end I enjoyed that concept. That may be mainly because the characters all have someone with them to have their back, which made me very happy, and I adore the Squad 312 so much I'll gladly read any added snippet of their lives. I loved following the different plot lines — and
Graphic: Violence and Torture
Moderate: War
Minor: Suicide and Cursing
kathrynleereads's review
- 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
3.75
With time travel being introduced at the end of the second book, I didn’t really have a choice here but to accept it.
And, I’ll admit, Kaufman and Kristoff did a really good job keeping the details and rules of the time jumps clear for the readers (mostly through Zila).
It did lead to me getting turned around quite a few times though.
That development made no sense to me.
With Fin’s help, she came to understand her incredible value to the squad, which she hadn’t seen before, and she opened her eyes enough to see Finian in front of her.
Finian - My favorite wiseass. Finaian kicked butt in this book and finally got Scarlett to see how amazing he is. What more can be said about Finian de Seel?
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, Genocide, Gore, Murder, Ableism, and Physical abuse
notacartoonyet's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.5
Graphic: War, Torture, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, and Violence
Moderate: Medical content, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Murder, Medical trauma, Gore, Death of parent, Bullying, Suicide, Racism, Grief, and Cursing
summer_19_'s review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Jay Kristoff, one of the authors of Aurora's End, is very problematic. So, if you are interested in this book series buy them secondhand or get them at the library.
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This series was very enjoyable to me and the final book did not disappoint. Of course not everything was amazing and there are some things I would change. Multiple times throughout the series, and especially this book, I felt like the characters were reduced to a few traits or people. I also didn't love the time travel route they went with. I overall liked this book, but it wasn't the best I've read.
Graphic: Violence, Blood, Death, and War
Moderate: Genocide
Minor: Sexual content and Suicide
mypatronusisajedi's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Moderate: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Grief, Death, Cursing, War, Violence, and Kidnapping
Minor: Suicide
foreverxbookish's review
5.0
Moderate: Suicide
poison_frogs's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
Minor: Suicide