A review by alexblackreads
The Other Side of Dawn by John Marsden

3.0

Finally, a truly worthwhile book in the series. Overall, I've not been the biggest fan, but this book made reading the whole series worth it. It was fun and exciting and I loved some of the choices Marsden made. It almost got four stars, but the ending felt way to rushed and contrived, and it just left a not amazing taste in my mouth.

I think this series has a lot of structural issues. I've mentioned this before, but books 4, 5, and 6 all felt like placeholders. Like Marsden knew he had to get to this point in the series to have this great climax, but needed to waste a lot of time for that to happen. It was unfortunate because he could have done so much more with the world building and character development in that time.

I also found these books to be pretty repetitive. Each one followed a similar plotline- hang out in home base, find a target, explode target, run. And it did get a bit tiresome. There were a number of bright points in the series, Robin being a pretty big one, but also the majority of this final book.

I had fun, but this isn't a series I'd recommend. It's just not worth it overall, even with a cool idea and fun climax.