Reviews for other books in this series: The 5th Wave and The Infinite Sea

Ok, so. This is mostly a review for The Last Star but I want to say this...Contrary to popular views, my favorite book in this series was definitely The Infinite Sea. The 5th Wave was focused on the world building and setting the stage, The Infinite Sea was all about how these characters are surviving and managing in this world, and The Last Star...well, it was a mess.

The Last Star was way heavier on the sci-fi then the other books were, which is fine except the elements we love about YA...THE PEOPLE AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS...were all over the place! I don't know about you but I loved getting to know Cassie, who has been the main focus for most of the story. Not on The Last Star. It's clearly all about Ringer now, which sucks because the parts with Cassie are definitely the best parts of the book. Every scene she was in had me laughing (mostly). Her characterization was spot on.

Couple this with really big stuff happening 25 pages from the end...Can you imagine? 338 pages of a book and you save the height of the action till the last 8% of the book. There's no time for closure. It feels as rushed as all the important parts in the fourth Hunger Games movie. I honestly had to go back over it twice to be sure I wasn't missing something here.

Team Cassie/Evan...I'm so sorry but this book is not going to make you happy.

I did like that the Others vs Aliens question was answered within the first few pages of the book. I also enjoyed the depth of the secondary characters, including Nugget. There's a lot of depth to the non-people parts overall, so it feels very sci-fi compared to the other two books. Overall the story would have been best served as a duology with novellas versus a trilogy.