Leviathan Falls

This book was beautiful and shattered my heart. I found it to be a satisfying, fitting conclusion that pulled all of the threads together and stayed true to the characters, and I would take that any day over a ‘shocking twist ending' that undermines all that came before.

As much as I wanted Holden to survive and have a chance to heal, in the end he went out as the purest distillation of himself: a reckless, brilliant idiot who saved the whole damn human race. I think I felt sadder for Naomi than anyone else; her wanting the chance to fall asleep next to the man she loved just one last time, and then having to pick up the pieces after his self-sacrifice, just like always.Also, it was so perfectly fitting to have Amos as the last man standing a thousand years later. If anyone could roll with the punches and stand steady through the churn of millennia, it would be him.

My one small complaint was that I wanted to know what happened to Drummer and never understood why she just disappeared from the narrative after book seven, but maybe she will turn up in a novella sometime. I also would love to see more of Teresa; I was so invested in her by the end, and wanted her to have a good life with a found family of her own.

God, what an incredible series. I hope the rest of it somehow, someday makes its way onscreen.