Series: The Darkest Minds
Genre: Dystopian, Paranormal, Sci-Fi
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Summary: Ruby never asked for the abilities that almost cost her her life. Now she must call upon them on a daily basis, leading dangerous missions to bring down a corrupt government and breaking into the minds of her enemies. Other kids in the Children’s League call Ruby “Leader,” but she knows what she really is: a monster. When Ruby is entrusted with an explosive secret, she must embark on her most dangerous mission yet: leaving the Children’s League behind. Crucial information about the disease that killed most of America’s children—and turned Ruby and the others who lived into feared and hated outcasts—has survived every attempt to destroy it. But the truth is saved in only one place: a flash drive in the hands of Liam Stewart, the boy Ruby once believed was her future—and who now wouldn't recognize her. As Ruby sets out across a desperate, lawless country to find Liam—and answers about the catastrophe that has ripped both her life and America apart—she is torn between old friends and the promise she made to serve the League. Ruby will do anything to protect the people she loves. But what if winning the war means losing herself?
Review: So I actually listened to the audio book instead of actually reading. The reason behind this being that I had an extremely hard time getting through the first book, The Darkest Minds. I enjoyed this better than actually reading the book but the story still hasn’t intrigued me enough to actually be impressed. Bracken smoothly continues the plot of the story into Never Fade and did a fairly good job with the overall pace. It was a little slow for my taste but it seemed to work for this particular book.
Ruby was . . . well, annoying for a majority of the book. She’s sixteen and has been through these unforgivable events in her life and had to deal with an unbelievable amount of things happening to her, and because of that I expected her to be more mature and educated. I was sorely disappointed with her character in particular because I didn’t feel like she had grown as much as I had anticipated.
It was great to finally see Chubs and Liam again after a little. But constantly throughout the book I kept on wanted Cole (Liam’s brother) and Ruby to get together. I just felt that they were so much more in tune with each other. But alas, I was disappointed again.
I also felt that Bracken had these great ideas for plot twists, but when I actually read them I wasn’t as surprised/shocked as I wanted to be. They weren’t as shocking to me as I hoped, this also leads back to the way Ruby actually handled said plot twists.
I don’t want it to seem as though this book was absolutely horrible. It wasn’t. It just wasn’t necessarily my cup of tea. I will be reading the 3rd book (In the Afterlight) since I already got my hands on a copy of the sound recording. I’m excited to see where Bracken will take the remainder of the story.
Ruby was . . . well, annoying for a majority of the book. She’s sixteen and has been through these unforgivable events in her life and had to deal with an unbelievable amount of things happening to her, and because of that I expected her to be more mature and educated. I was sorely disappointed with her character in particular because I didn’t feel like she had grown as much as I had anticipated.
It was great to finally see Chubs and Liam again after a little. But constantly throughout the book I kept on wanted Cole (Liam’s brother) and Ruby to get together. I just felt that they were so much more in tune with each other. But alas, I was disappointed again.
I also felt that Bracken had these great ideas for plot twists, but when I actually read them I wasn’t as surprised/shocked as I wanted to be. They weren’t as shocking to me as I hoped, this also leads back to the way Ruby actually handled said plot twists.
I don’t want it to seem as though this book was absolutely horrible. It wasn’t. It just wasn’t necessarily my cup of tea. I will be reading the 3rd book (In the Afterlight) since I already got my hands on a copy of the sound recording. I’m excited to see where Bracken will take the remainder of the story.
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