sararvsilva 's review for:

Thrive by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie

4.5

dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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𝙏𝙃𝙍𝙄𝙑𝙀 𝙗𝙮 𝙆𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖 & 𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙘𝙖 𝙍𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙚

𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 #𝟒

𝟒,𝟓 ★

“𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ-616, 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒. 𝑊𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐼𝑡 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒.”

This book was so emotional! It doesn’t add much in terms of story, because it’s basically everything that happened in the two previous books but in Lily’s and Lo’s pov. Still, it was such an interesting book.

For me, it’s with this book that we finally start to see Lily and Lo recovering. We still have a few fallouts, but it’s the first time where it happens and I feel like the characters are devastated because they failed. It’s the first time where I see them both want to get better, want to be better. It made my heart so full and happy to see this evolution. 

Being in Lo’s head also made me understand a little bit better what he felt towards Ryke in the last book. It was something that made struggle with ‘Hothouse Flower’ because it felt he didn’t want Ryke to be happy, but now I understand his intentions in saying what he said and the battle that was in his head.

I’m so happy that Lily is getting stronger. She is talking more, she is more at ease and she is happy which is what she deserves. 

The end of this book brought a challenge and one side of the coin that even I didn’t think about. I can already predict that it won’t be easy for any of the characters involved, but it also left me excited for the last Lily and Lo’s book.