Restore Me

Update: 2/2023: Who knew that it would take me 5 years to actually get to reading this next installment of the series. Maybe it was the word “betrayal” in the synopsis that had me fearing for my Warnette duo & Co, or maybe it was the subsequent swell of negative reviews. In either case, it ended up taking me awhile to get back to this. Honestly, I wasn't sure what to expect given the general negative consensus from the Goodreads community as well as my trusted reviewers on here who tend to be very in sync with me. It's true - the world-building is nowhere to be found, and there's not so much a plot as much as an in-depth analysis of each character's mental state post-Anderson. I gotta say - it's a soap opera in here. The angst, the revelations, the deep burning passions of our band of misfits - all in here, and I was surprisingly into it. It's like the first 3 books are this sprint through finding each other and taking over the country, and these start to get into so what then? The mental damage, emotional instability, and general realization that they're teenagers who don't know what's up felt very real. The series is certainly taking a wild turn at the conclusion of Restore Me (which should really be named Transport Me into an alternate reality), so let's see how wilder it gets in the next book.