Series: The Darkest Minds #3
Genre: Dystopian, Post-Apocalyptic, Adventure
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Summary: Ruby can't look back. Fractured by an unbearable loss, she and the kids who survived the government's attack on Los Angeles travel north to regroup. With them is a prisoner: Clancy Gray, son of the president, and one of the few people Ruby has encountered with abilities like hers. Only Ruby has any power over him, and just one slip could lead to Clancy wreaking havoc on their minds. They are armed only with a volatile secret: proof of a government conspiracy to cover up the real cause of IAAN, the disease that has killed most of America's children and left Ruby and others like her with powers the government will kill to keep contained. But internal strife may destroy their only chance to free the "rehabilitation camps" housing thousands of other Psi kids. Meanwhile, reunited with Liam, the boy she would-and did-sacrifice everything for to keep alive, Ruby must face the painful repercussions of having tampered with his memories of her. She turns to Cole, his older brother, to provide the intense training she knows she will need to take down Gray and the government. But Cole has demons of his own, and one fatal mistake may be the spark that sets the world on fire.
Review: Well, to say the least, I had a pretty rough time getting through this one. If any of you are friends with me on goodreads you'll know that is has taken me literally weeks to get through this book. I actually started out by listening to In the Afterlight for the first couple of chapters but then just decided that I'd rather physically read (well mostly skim . . .) than keep listening. I had an inkling that I wouldn't really appreciate/enjoy this series when the first book (The Darkest Minds) didn't sit well with me. By the times I got through the second book in the series (Never Fade) I knew that the only reason I was going to be reading the last book in the trilogy was to find out what happened in the end.
There were a lot of plot twists, and a little more romance (more so than the first two books). I feel slightly bad about giving this book only 3 stars. But although it was an interesting and really unique idea, it (mostly the main character, Ruby) just never really sat well with me. I would definitely recommend giving this series a try though because from what it looks like (mainly on goodreads) it is a fairly popular book!
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