Carrie Ryan

The Dark and Hollow Places

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My favorite book of the trilogy, hands down.

Characters
Annah: Annah is the main character in this book, Gabry’s twin sister. She’s very angry ad snarky and sarcastic and stubborn and very dark and all the things I love to see in a Main Character.
Elias: Elias is here again, and we learn that Annah was in love with him before he joined the Recruiters. (Also: when this book begins you will realize that Annah’s telling of her and Elias’s history and what happened when and after he joined the recruiters does not line up with his story when he met Gabry. It’s just another plot twist)
Catcher: Catcher is Annah’s love interest, and I like him much better in this book with Annah then I did in the Dead-Tossed Waves with Gabry. Catcher and Annah are a much better match then Catcher and Gabry, if you ask me. Also, he grows into his Immunity in this book. (chapter XXXVIII, anyone?)
Gabry: I only think Annah refers to Gabry as Gabry once in this book. She usually refers to Gabry as Abigail or ‘my sister’. It’s a little disconcerting, but it makes sense.

Plot
We still have zombies. And we still have Recruiters. But instead of a couple normal zombies scattered about and a couple Breakers, we have an entire freaking Horde. It’s pretty epic.
Also, where in the last book the Recruiters were just a peripheral bad, in an oh-o-they’re-after-us way, in this book, we get better acquainted with the special of awful that the Recruiters are. They’re… I’m tempted to say sociopaths, but I’m not sure if that’s the right word. Sadists, maybe. I don’t know, but they’re pretty awful.

I think that the point of this whole trilogy has been to answer the question: what makes us alive? What separates from the zombies/mudo/unconsecrated? 
I think that question has been answered, several times over. The difference between surviving, existing and living has been explored, and it leaves you with a feeling of hope.

Emily Perkovich

** spoiler alert **
           I did like this much more than 2 but sooo much less than the first one. It felt too easily packaged up too frequently. One relationship can’t work out anymore? It’s ok, here’s another character who has been slighted and now you two can easily fall in love nbd. It was just very YA suspend your disbelief to make the story neat.

Chelsea Breher

I enjoyed the third book more than the second, I like learning about the past of the various characters and how their lives all changed due to a split second decision. The love triangles troop made me roll my eyes many times, but I guess its what sells books these days 😂😂

The Dark and Hollow Places

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