This was a great fluffy read for vacation!! Full review to come later!!

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Rating: ***** Suggested Age: 13

I couldn’t have asked for a better finale to The Darkest Minds trilogy. In The Afterlight tied every loose end and made me extremely happy. I didn’t find it nearly as slow or confusing as Never Fade and I was hooked throughout the book. Alexandra Bracken writes so well and descriptively, leaving not a detail out. Her writing makes for great dystopias, in which there are a lot of things to keep track of and be described. Not to mention, her characters are out of this world. Liam is so perfect and wonderful. I just want to wrap my arms around him (or marry him, either one’s good). Ruby is an extraordinary main character and not lacking in any aspect whatsoever. I love Chubs so much and Vida even grew on me as a complex, but not always perfect character. The only characters I can say I truly despised were Clancy and Cole. Clancy is one of those characters that most people have a general dislike for, but Cole was a little different, I just never warmed up to him.

When I finished this book, I was left with that bittersweet feeling of being satisfied with the ending and wanting to scream at the same time. It was over. I wasn’t going to read about these characters again. The series was over. However, I can’t say that the ending was disappointing. It was bittersweet as most endings are and I suppose that’s just how it is.

I highly recommend picking up this series. I don’t think you’ll regret it at all. It’s a fantastic series with fantastic characters and feels in all the right spots.

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I have to be honest, the beginning of Never Fade wasn’t strong enough for me. I was really confused and lost with it all. Then, somehow, I found myself sitting on my bed Sunday morning, crying because Alexandra Bracken is horrible to her characters, but most of all managed to make me feel something. The characters are just so amazing, especially the new ones (JUDE). This book broke my heart so much AND THAT ENDING. Not to mention, Barnes and Noble was out of stock of In the Afterlight and I’ve got a million other books to read, so I’m sitting here impatiently waiting for when my TBR (to be read) list is small enough to handle me getting it.

Anyway, as for the plot and the story, I liked the majority of it. I couldn’t get past the confusing beginning, though, and the whole time I was trying to understand what happened in between The Darkest Minds and Never Fade. Some things weren’t clear enough to earn it five stars. I feel really bad giving this book four stars because I love Bracken’s writing and the characters, but I want this to be an honest review and that’s my honesty.

I hope that In The Afterlight is better and as good of an ending as I want for this series. My fingers are crossed!

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I just finished this book. It was really really really good. Now I want the second one. And I can't get the second one for a while. And I also have a lot of books to read at home. *cries* my life is so hard.

I'm a little confused at the ending?

Anyway, this book was good, but nothing remarkable to me, and I think if it had been written differently it could have been a lot more impactful.

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pretty good, a review to come later

i'm okay i'm okay i'm okay

i'm not okay

i am most certainly not okay

anywaaaaaay, time to review a BUNCH of books, but I dunno if i'll make it to this one tonight...and sorry for all the lowercase stuff I'm doing, i don't really know what's happening right now, i'm mentally like out of it thanks to this lovely, lovely book

but there was malec so!!!!!

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gah...rating this book was so hard. I might change it. Because it was good and not bad and slightly strange and completely odd and my mind can't processssss anything now. there were just some things that bugged me that made my rating so low but ugh the feels were strong in this one (aren't they always?)

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Review to come at some point. Mediocre book, but I kinda want to read the next one, so we'll see how that goes...