Scan barcode
A review by bluejaybooks
Ruins by Dan Wells
4.0
I said in an update that I liked this book a lot more than I remembered. Now that I've read to the ending, I've got to slightly amend that statement. I can see why I was mildly disappointed on my first read through. There are a lot of different plotlines that were begun and needed to be tied up. Some of them felt rushed. I also would have liked to get some sort of idea of how the society in this book was functioning a few years after this book ended.
It also occurs to me that given that 2 human societies survived in the US, it's likely at least one other group survived somewhere in the rest of the world. These humans will have to hurry though because, according to this world's mythology, it seems likely there wouldn't be many partials in the rest of the world. I suppose that if the trust's plan had worked, it would have made other countries dependent upon the US providing them with partials/their pheromone.
That said, generally speaking about the YA dystopian trilogy finales written during this time period, this was definitely one of the more well done series conclusions. As for this series, it remains among my favorite YA dystopian novels written during the time period when they were saturating the market with their popularity.
Spoiler
*spoilers ahead* It occurs to me that as soon as the partials have survived expiration, they won't need the humans anymore. Unless maybe expiration will affect their children, assuming they can have any? If the partials can't, then this society will still be doomed in the long term, though they'd ideally have had a fair number of humans born and stockpiled a fair amount of pheromone before the end if that seemed to be the case.It also occurs to me that given that 2 human societies survived in the US, it's likely at least one other group survived somewhere in the rest of the world. These humans will have to hurry though because, according to this world's mythology, it seems likely there wouldn't be many partials in the rest of the world. I suppose that if the trust's plan had worked, it would have made other countries dependent upon the US providing them with partials/their pheromone.
That said, generally speaking about the YA dystopian trilogy finales written during this time period, this was definitely one of the more well done series conclusions. As for this series, it remains among my favorite YA dystopian novels written during the time period when they were saturating the market with their popularity.