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A review by annettebooksofhopeanddreams
Obsidio by Amie Kaufman
5.0
I want to write this review now, with the tears still rolling down my cheeks and my heart still racing in my chest. This last book gave me something I didn't know I would get, but that also left a very deep impact on me: It showed how ugly, inhuman, harsh and brutal war is, on both sides. Because most of the armies always consist of innocent people who are just trying to stay alive.
The last book in the series wraps up everything rather nicely. It fills in the gaps, it really finishes the story and it delivers a very satisfying conclusion. Once again the book proves how smart it is, how intelligent the plot is, how clever everything is thought out. Hints that were dropped in the first books, are finally unfolded in this one. Everything comes together and everything is explained.
And once again, the plot proves to be very smart and clever in general. Even though, after the first two books, it was not that unexpected and surprising anymore. I wasn't expecting anything less but the smartest possible strategies from our heroes.
Because those books, those three stories, were more than just a story about a war and how it ends. It's a story about the strength of humans whenever it's needed. It's a story about ordinary humans, like you an me, rising up to be more than they ever thought they could be. It's about people beating the odds, about fighting judgement, about fighting resistance. It's a book about living a life worth dying for.
And it's a book about an AI that I love and hate at the same time, that makes me laugh and makes me cry. An AI that can't touch, or love, but does so anyway. An AI that makes that much of an impression that he will stay with me, for ever. Because what's not alive, can never die.
The last book in the series wraps up everything rather nicely. It fills in the gaps, it really finishes the story and it delivers a very satisfying conclusion. Once again the book proves how smart it is, how intelligent the plot is, how clever everything is thought out. Hints that were dropped in the first books, are finally unfolded in this one. Everything comes together and everything is explained.
And once again, the plot proves to be very smart and clever in general. Even though, after the first two books, it was not that unexpected and surprising anymore. I wasn't expecting anything less but the smartest possible strategies from our heroes.
Because those books, those three stories, were more than just a story about a war and how it ends. It's a story about the strength of humans whenever it's needed. It's a story about ordinary humans, like you an me, rising up to be more than they ever thought they could be. It's about people beating the odds, about fighting judgement, about fighting resistance. It's a book about living a life worth dying for.
And it's a book about an AI that I love and hate at the same time, that makes me laugh and makes me cry. An AI that can't touch, or love, but does so anyway. An AI that makes that much of an impression that he will stay with me, for ever. Because what's not alive, can never die.