A review by amnesiack
Gregor and the Code of Claw by Suzanne Collins

5.0

Despite very different trappings and beginnings, the Underland Chronicles ends it's final book in an almost identical space as Collins' Hunger Games series: a young person brought to adulthood too soon by war and loss, rejecting violence but unable to fully cope with a normal life. I love Collins' books for the simple fact that she does not try to wrap everything up with a happy bow; she lets sadness, pain, and loss have a place in her fictional worlds, as they should, without letting them be the whole of her work. Well done.