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A review by angay_reads
Catacomb by Madeleine Roux
4.0
I can't believe I've finally finished the series! This is definitely my favorite book out of the three.
In this last book, Dan, Abby, and Jordon head to New Orleans, and on the way, they uncover secrets about a gang called the "Bone Artists", and also about Dan's past.
I love the change of environment and setting for this book. In the last two books, the plot's setting was in Brookline and around New Hampshire. In this book, part of the setting is the places they visit on their road trip, and the rest is in New Orleans, with new places to explore, and not just a dingy dorm building.
Catacomb focuses a lot on Dan's birth parents, and the Bone Artists, and less on the whole "Warden Crawford" plotline. It wraps things up nicely because we finally understand the full story of Dan's past.
I think it's weird how they never explained the mechanic part, I honestly think that bit could just be erased, considering how it's never brought up again, it wouldn't make much of a difference.
The thing I find the most unique about the series, is that the "big boss" of the antagonists [Warden Crawford and *spoilers* FInnoway] are downright evil psychos, and there's no reason for why they're like that. There's no sad backstory or anything, Crawford was just born a psycho and Finnoway just continued the family business with no remorse or guilt, they don't feel human emotions and are just crazy psychopaths. That's something I don't see very often, so I particularly enjoyed this.
I think the entire series is a great and compelling story, I enjoyed it very much!
In this last book, Dan, Abby, and Jordon head to New Orleans, and on the way, they uncover secrets about a gang called the "Bone Artists", and also about Dan's past.
I love the change of environment and setting for this book. In the last two books, the plot's setting was in Brookline and around New Hampshire. In this book, part of the setting is the places they visit on their road trip, and the rest is in New Orleans, with new places to explore, and not just a dingy dorm building.
Catacomb focuses a lot on Dan's birth parents, and the Bone Artists, and less on the whole "Warden Crawford" plotline. It wraps things up nicely because we finally understand the full story of Dan's past.
I think it's weird how they never explained the mechanic part, I honestly think that bit could just be erased, considering how it's never brought up again, it wouldn't make much of a difference.
The thing I find the most unique about the series, is that the "big boss" of the antagonists [Warden Crawford and *spoilers* FInnoway] are downright evil psychos, and there's no reason for why they're like that. There's no sad backstory or anything, Crawford was just born a psycho and Finnoway just continued the family business with no remorse or guilt, they don't feel human emotions and are just crazy psychopaths. That's something I don't see very often, so I particularly enjoyed this.
I think the entire series is a great and compelling story, I enjoyed it very much!