Ruins

a zárás lényegesen jobb volt, mint az előző könyv, de érzésem szerint kicsit túlzás volt ötszázhuszonnyolc szemszögből írni a történetet. meg azt nem teljesen értem, hogy a főszereplőnőket miért kell folyton halálidegesítőre formálni - sajnos ebben ez a könyvsorozat sem volt kivétel.

“They are in a desperate race toward the final death. The winner will be the last one standing, and his prize is the final and most terrible solitude this world has ever known.”

That, my friends, is how you end a series.

This wasn't like Mockingjay or Allegiant where I had to push myself to get through the book. This was a nail-biter to the end. It made me scream, made me cry, and made me so incredibly mad. Yes, I don't think Kira ended up with the right guy in the end. But you know what? That doesn't take away from the book in my opinion.

Unlike so many trilogies where the first book is good, the second is cringe-worthy, and the third is either great or terrible, the Partials Sequence exhibits none of these common ideals. The first book is good, the second is better, and the third is just incredible. Every question you had in the first and second books is answered here. And guess what? To make things even better, the romance is not the central part of the plot. Surprise! In a dystopian novel, the romance shouldn't be a central part. I mean honestly. We're talking about a world in chaos, and no offense to romance lovers, but romance shouldn't be very high on the totem pole.

This novel is just written beautifully. Everything builds up, and finally, finally, we get to meet you-know-who, and it's not the reunion I would have expected. In fact, it's quite the opposite.

The multiple POVs add so much to the novel, and just build on each other. I particularly enjoyed Marcus's POV, because 1) he's probably one of my favorite characters of all time. I just love his positivity and snarky comments, and 2) we were able to see that Marcus really could cope and handle himself very well without Kira.

And the action. Don't get me started on the action. It was non-stop. In fact, I don't believe there was ever a dull point in this book where Kira wasn't saying something like, “Shoot! We're being shot at!”, or Haru wasn't make some sort of superior decision that affected the entire population of the human race. Because, you know, there's only 35,000 of them left.

The only thing that made me laugh in this book (it's not a very comical book, you see. Except for Marcus, of course), was the fact the apocalypse everyone was freaking out about was snow. Freaking snow. It made sense in the novel, don't get me wrong, but up here in the north, we tend to get a pretty good about of snow. Therefore, Delarosa calling it “something out of a folk tale”, made me laugh really, really hard.

The Partials Sequence (and especially Ruins) are incredible books, and show the true, gritty side of dystopia. Are you tired of unrealistic, girly dystopian novels? Are you looking for a female lead who saves her man 9 times out of 10? Than the Partials Sequence is perfect for you.

I'll leave you off with one more quote.

“It's not enough to save us. We have to be worth saving.”

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