So this is book 2 of the Darkest Minds trilogy. We saw at the end of the first book that Ruby went back to the Children’s League to protect Liam and to save Chubs’ life. She’s joined a team, and they go on missions and ops and try to fight against the president. Ruby actually does learn a lot from her training. She becomes a better fighter, and she’s learning how to better control her powers. However, they’re basically making her torture people for information […]
I feel like I’m okay with this ending
This review is going to suffer from me having read multiple books since finishing this one. I do apologize. I powered through it mostly to have the conclusion and, hey, it was a pretty satisfying one, as “dystopian YA novels with powerful teenage female protagonists” go. The book actually dives pretty deeply into what is clearly Ruby’s PTSD following the bombing of their previous base and the loss of one of her closest friends. Granted, the book then also sidesteps some of those symptoms to […]
These kids are much tougher than I ever would be
Any time I see a trailer for a movie that is also a book, I usually rush out and read the book. I saw the trailer for this movie, and I knew I was headed to the library. They gist of these books (there are three, so you know I’ll be reading all three!) is that all children in the world either die of a brain disease (horribly), or they have unusual powers. The change usually comes around age ten for all of the children. […]
I’m in a YA rut
It’s not necessarily a bad thing. I’m at least reading relatively high quality YA. And the next book up is different, so I’m getting out of that rut. But it’s important to recognize when you’re in one. Anyway. Hey this one is being made into a movie! Starring that really feminist badass who is always saying awesome things on TV and Twitter and in articles! And it has Gwendolyn Christie! I know a lot of folks thought Divergent and The Fifth Wave spelled the end of the dystopian […]