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thejufox 's review for:
Into the Still Blue
by Veronica Rossi
A 4.5 for all three books in the trilogy from me.
Into the Still Blue is just as solid as the first and second book in the series. While I wasn't overwhelmed or surprised by anything that happened in the last instalment of this trilogy, I wasn't disappointed either. The main 'plot twist' that caused the ending was not really a twist because it was clear that this would happen even way back in Through the Ever Night. Several of the characters hinted at something like this happening in the previous book and did more than hint at it throughout most of this last book as well. Which in itself, I really didn't mind. I'm not that insistent on there being surprising elements in endings, as long as it's all well done I don't care if I knew it was going to happen or not. The way some of the characters were so casually shot made it very realistic, they didn't get an emotional death scene and instead were just killed off and the story went on and it made perfect much sense for it to happen that way. I'm glad Veronica Rossi wasn't too scared to kill off some characters in this series even though they're likeable and the readers wouldn't want them to die.
The explanation for why the aether is a thing and how it works satisfied me so much, I can't even explain. I love it when post-apocalyptic stories or stories with fantasy elements that are supposed to play out in our world have a believable explanation for the things that are happening. It would of course have been just fine if there was no explanation, it's a dystopian story and it's fiction so the world can be built up however the author wants it to be. But the fact that enough thought went into the current situation of the world that it sounds like it could actually happen that way makes it a thousand times better.
Into the Still Blue is just as solid as the first and second book in the series. While I wasn't overwhelmed or surprised by anything that happened in the last instalment of this trilogy, I wasn't disappointed either. The main 'plot twist' that caused the ending was not really a twist because it was clear that this would happen even way back in Through the Ever Night. Several of the characters hinted at something like this happening in the previous book and did more than hint at it throughout most of this last book as well. Which in itself, I really didn't mind. I'm not that insistent on there being surprising elements in endings, as long as it's all well done I don't care if I knew it was going to happen or not. The way some of the characters were so casually shot made it very realistic, they didn't get an emotional death scene and instead were just killed off and the story went on and it made perfect much sense for it to happen that way. I'm glad Veronica Rossi wasn't too scared to kill off some characters in this series even though they're likeable and the readers wouldn't want them to die.
The explanation for why the aether is a thing and how it works satisfied me so much, I can't even explain. I love it when post-apocalyptic stories or stories with fantasy elements that are supposed to play out in our world have a believable explanation for the things that are happening. It would of course have been just fine if there was no explanation, it's a dystopian story and it's fiction so the world can be built up however the author wants it to be. But the fact that enough thought went into the current situation of the world that it sounds like it could actually happen that way makes it a thousand times better.