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authorjakedevlin 's review for:
In the Afterlight
by Alexandra Bracken
These books! I burned through them slowly, savoring them over six months, because I knew it was one I was going to have a lot of feels about getting to the end. This trilogy is gold, and I'm going to miss these characters like you wouldn't believe.
Now for this book as an individual part: I will say that it's slower than the first two. In fact, it was a little harder to pick up sometimes because it didn't have the constant motion of the first two books. I described the first two to a friend as "a dystopian X-Men on a road trip", whereas about 70% of this conclusion happens in one place where very little is in motion (and what IS happening feels a little more "tell" than show, because it happens mostly off-page). That bummed me out a little. However, I'd come to fall in love with the cast Bracken dreamed up, including a returning favorite from the first book, and everyone went through such realistic character developments over the course of the trilogy. Needless to say, there had to be some casualties, and those were heartbreaking.
Despite the slower pace, the finale was everything. The last few chapters were exactly what I had hoped for and more, and this was one of those times where I shut the book after the last page, sat there for a minute, and just breathed the word, "Wow."
That's my one-word review for the trilogy: wow!
Now for this book as an individual part: I will say that it's slower than the first two. In fact, it was a little harder to pick up sometimes because it didn't have the constant motion of the first two books. I described the first two to a friend as "a dystopian X-Men on a road trip", whereas about 70% of this conclusion happens in one place where very little is in motion (and what IS happening feels a little more "tell" than show, because it happens mostly off-page). That bummed me out a little. However, I'd come to fall in love with the cast Bracken dreamed up, including a returning favorite from the first book, and everyone went through such realistic character developments over the course of the trilogy. Needless to say, there had to be some casualties, and those were heartbreaking.
Despite the slower pace, the finale was everything. The last few chapters were exactly what I had hoped for and more, and this was one of those times where I shut the book after the last page, sat there for a minute, and just breathed the word, "Wow."
That's my one-word review for the trilogy: wow!