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Undivided
by Neal Shusterman
My journey with this series began a while ago, when I was of unwinding age myself. I devoured the first book, and I remember it as one of the best books I’ve ever read.
Unfortunately, life got in the way, and getting to the rest of the series somehow evaded me for a good seven years.
Over all that time, it was never a series that I forgot, despite only reading the first book. Over all that time, it was never a story I stopped recommending to people who asked for recommendations, despite its details starting to fade like old memories in my mind.
Almost a decade later, I’m not sure what prompted me to finally start reading the rest of the series now and not sooner, but I’m so glad I did get around to it. Because what Neal Shusterman has created for these final three books was just shocking and haunting and riveting as I remembered from the first.
The stories here have been expertly woven together and paced, switching between the perspectives of not only the main characters but of those in the background, in the distance. Heck, you even get some clever omniscient-type glimpses -- never thought I’d read a snippet from the viewpoint of retired aircraft! All of these perspectives come together beautifully to create a whole story that resonates on so many levels and addresses issues that I never imagined I’d be thinking about all in the same context. It’s a story of humanity and of how frail, strong, messed-up, empathetic, broken, and whole it can be.
When a book series can make you feel the things this series can, when it can enthrall your very being in a fiction that can sometimes feel all too real, you know you’ve found a true diamond in the rough, and you may likely also feel like one after all the emotional pressure from the drops and loopty-loops these books will put you through! It’s a masterpiece of a series, one worth even greater than the sum of its parts.
Unfortunately, life got in the way, and getting to the rest of the series somehow evaded me for a good seven years.
Over all that time, it was never a series that I forgot, despite only reading the first book. Over all that time, it was never a story I stopped recommending to people who asked for recommendations, despite its details starting to fade like old memories in my mind.
Almost a decade later, I’m not sure what prompted me to finally start reading the rest of the series now and not sooner, but I’m so glad I did get around to it. Because what Neal Shusterman has created for these final three books was just shocking and haunting and riveting as I remembered from the first.
The stories here have been expertly woven together and paced, switching between the perspectives of not only the main characters but of those in the background, in the distance. Heck, you even get some clever omniscient-type glimpses -- never thought I’d read a snippet from the viewpoint of retired aircraft! All of these perspectives come together beautifully to create a whole story that resonates on so many levels and addresses issues that I never imagined I’d be thinking about all in the same context. It’s a story of humanity and of how frail, strong, messed-up, empathetic, broken, and whole it can be.
When a book series can make you feel the things this series can, when it can enthrall your very being in a fiction that can sometimes feel all too real, you know you’ve found a true diamond in the rough, and you may likely also feel like one after all the emotional pressure from the drops and loopty-loops these books will put you through! It’s a masterpiece of a series, one worth even greater than the sum of its parts.