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Now this was a fantastic conclusion to this trilogy!
It wraps everything up and has everything that you would be looking for for in Book Three.
I am not really going to write a lot about it, but to say that I loved it.
If you have read Hunger Games and Catching Fire then you will love this book!
5 stars and definitely recommend it!
So go read it!
This was my first forray back into reading and I must say, it was the BEST idea ever! 🙂 Thanks to Kimber who kept encouraging me to read it with her, even though I was a little afraid that it would still make me sick.
So anyways, I was so, so, so, pleased with the conclusion of this duet. Her Mother’s Hope was such a great book, and so I was really excited about this one. And I must say that I was blown away by the intensity of emotions. I have a great relationship with my mother, yet I still was wrapped into this story like it was my own life.
I think this is such a wonderful book about healing relationships and how the way you say things can be received in a totally different way and how entire lives can be affected because of the power of words.
SUCH a great book and you need to read it STAT!
5 stars and totally recommend it.
Well, the most awful thing has happened, reading gives me motion sickness!
So I am taking a forced hiatus on reading for the next few weeks until I can read without running to the toilet.
This is totally sad because Mockingjay and Clockwork Angel both come out in the next 2 weeks, PLUS the 3 books I have waiting on my Kindle… I have a lot to catch up on!
Until then, what are you reading?
So here we are at the end of July and boy have I drifted from my 2010 Summer Reading List!
Okay, so here is the assessment of where I am at:
BOOKS READ:
Brightly Woven
Wicked Lovely
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
The Crescent
The Bride Collector
The Forgotten Garden
Moon Called
BOOKS TO READ:
Assassins Apprentice
Green
Little Bee
Not too bad! I hopefully can get them all done by the end of August (which to me is the end of Summer). It just is hard because I keep finding all kinds of other goodness that keeps stealing my attention! But such is the life of a reader 🙂
This is a the 2nd book to The Forest of Hands and Teeth which is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time!
It doesn’t so much pick up where the last one left off, so I wouldn’t call it a sequal, it just sort of progresses the stories a few decades later.
But just like Forest of Hands and Teeth, it grips you and sucks you in. You connect with the characters and the love and the fear and the tragedy on such a deep level.
I TOTALLY recommend this book with 5 stars! Like seriously, go out and read both of them… like now. This instant!
Summary:
Gabry has grown up safely in the city of Vista. She lives in a lighthouse with her mother, Mary, the daring heroine of The Forest of Hands and Teeth (Delacorte, 2009), whose job it is to kill Mudo—zombies—as they wash ashore. Then one night, Cira, Gabry’s best friend, and Catcher, Cira’s brother, convince her to sneak outside Vista’s walls. With the attack of one Breaker—a fast zombie—everything changes: a friend is killed, Catcher is infected, and Cira is imprisoned and destined for the Recruiters, the army that protects the loose federation of cities left after the Return. Feeling both guilty for having escaped punishment and self-destructive after the revelation that Mary in fact adopted her, Gabry pushes herself to cross the city’s Barrier again. Some pieces of the narrative are well constructed: the constant, looming threat of the Mudo, Gabry’s quiet determination and daring in the face of fear, and villainous soldier Daniel’s palpably frightening power-grabbing sexual advances. Other details are less believable, like Mary’s suddenly abandoning her daughter and her duties to seek her past in the Forest. Though flawed, this volume has enough action, romance, and depth of character to satisfy, and the cliff-hanger ending will leave fans hungry for the third book.
Destiny Cole 