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A review by kelseywho
In the Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken
4.0
I think as a series, The Darkest Minds definitely is a consistently great set of books. I think sometimes the evil villain side of Clancy gets to be a little much and veers into a caricature, but he is also easy to sympathize with in this last book.
I did get very tired of the bickering though. It seems like most YA series have that one book where the main character and the love interest spend the entirety of it arguing with one another and then nearly dying. In The Afterlight has that plus the added Stewart brother, for even more fighting. Bracken could have cut a good amount of the heavy emotional encounters and moved forward with the plot a lot quicker and we would have lost nothing. Overall, the ending is the best bit and reads like to action-packed, horrifying situations we see in the first two books. It's great, and ties up nicely. She was smart not to drag it out into four books. The series is awesome and definitely underrated. Skip Divergent and read this instead.
I did get very tired of the bickering though. It seems like most YA series have that one book where the main character and the love interest spend the entirety of it arguing with one another and then nearly dying. In The Afterlight has that plus the added Stewart brother, for even more fighting. Bracken could have cut a good amount of the heavy emotional encounters and moved forward with the plot a lot quicker and we would have lost nothing. Overall, the ending is the best bit and reads like to action-packed, horrifying situations we see in the first two books. It's great, and ties up nicely. She was smart not to drag it out into four books. The series is awesome and definitely underrated. Skip Divergent and read this instead.