glassman 's review for:

In the Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken
5.0

Bracken, I believe I made it perfectly clear in my review of Sparks Rise that if you don't fix Lucas in this book, I will hunt you down and make you suffer. Not only did you not fix him, but you didn't even mention what became of him or the other Reds past their involvement in Thurmond.

However, I'm willing to overlook that, since the ending was satisfying, and DIDNT leave me in a bloody and crying mess on the floor, something that I truly appreciate.

What makes Bracken such a great author, and so different from others, is that her characters are capable of ruling their decisions by both emotion and logic, where most let one overshadow the other, which, in the case of most other stories, leads to a very big mistake. This sets up the characters in THIS book to be sensible, even when emotional, a point that, personally, I found very pleasing.