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Review

Whoa, what an ending! I love this series! A fantastic blend of YA PNR, dystopia, action, horror, humour and romance, it has it all, and the trilogy has ended in sensational style!

4.5 stars.

The story picks up very shortly after the ending of The Eternity Cure. If it’s been a while since you’ve read the last book, it might be worthwhile having a flick through, or at least reading the last couple of chapters. There isn’t much a recap in this one, with the story pretty much continuing straight on.

When we rejoin Allison, she is travelling with her companions , Kanin and Jackal, on the road to the last vampire/rabid-free community in the US – Eden. Reeling from the events at the end of the last book, they are hunting Sarren in order to kill him – slowly and painfully – both for vengeance and, more importantly, to stop him before he can destroy the world.

After fighting against her base instinct for so long, suffering from a personal trauma has left Allie broken and no longer fighting to conceal her inner monster. Instead she is letting it loose and embracing her vampiric nature in an effort not to feel.

I was a vampire, and I knew the outcome of this hunt. It was so easy to release my human conscience and emotions, to let the monster guide the way. I didn’t know why I’d been so stubborn. Trying to remain human had brought nothing but pain. I would not open myself up to that kind of hurt again. 

And she gets plenty of opportunity to let her inner demon out! The evil and psychotic bad guy leads them into all sorts of bloody encounters as he has left a trail of destruction and gore behind him, with booby traps, zombie-like rabids, and painfully personal confrontations along the way – including one big shocker that was actually pretty easy to predict, but still had me cheering at the twist that it brings to the story.

It also brings the heart and soul to the story, with lots of feels, and it all ties in nicely with the theme of the choices we make in life, and although it gets a bit angsty at times, the characters are pretty quick to move on. There’s no time for angst when there is so much action going on!

Kagawa does an amazing job in describing the bleakness and devastation of her world. It’s dangerous and scary, and graphically violent and gruesome, but it all adds to the mood of the story and she builds the anticipation brilliantly as our determined team each get the opportunity to show their epic badassery as they fight through horrific circumstances in an effort to save the day.

Huge shout out to the side characters – the amazingly noble and soulful Kanin who is such an incredible character, and the fabulously sarcastic asshat, Jackal who pretty much steals the book. I love him so much! He is unapologetically bad, is always quick with a witty observation and does a brilliant job of lightening the story.

“I’m still going to eat them. How much is going to depend on how seriously they piss me off by the time I get in there.”

“Oh, isn’t that sweet,” came Jackal’s loud, mocking voice… “Let’s make goo-goo eyes at each other in the middle of a stinking corpse field, how very romantic.”

Ahhh, yes. The question of romance. Well…

The writing is gripping, and the whole story leads up to an absolutely thrilling ending which had me fighting tears and on the edge of my seat. It’s incredibly intense, but definitely worthy of everything that the trilogy has been building towards. Will everybody be happy – possibly not – but even though it made me cry, it all makes sense and I was satisfied with how it ended up.

I loved it! And absolutely recommend this series to fans of YA paranormal romance.

4.5 stars.

 

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