A review by mamaejamae
The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson

4.0

This book was good. I enjoyed the characters and how real they felt (especially Elena's indecision I really felt that) but I also did not like the characters saying the same things over and over again. Also I felt like the book left some parts unfinished in a weird way, like how the best friend, Fadil, obviously has a problem with Elena being disrespectful towards his religion but he only ever says two things about it and it did not feel like it got resolved (Maybe it did though idk). Plus I felt like Freddie was too mean to Elena throughout the whole book and so while I wanted to like her character I was not really able to. Overall though I really did enjoy the book and like most of Shaun David Hutchinson's books I enjoyed the mainly internal plot and like We Are the Ants I enjoyed the whole "do I save the world or not" kind of debate. This book also added to that by Elena not knowing if she was actually saving people or not. That's some good stuff.