(I received a free copy of this book, through NetGalley, in exchange for a review).
(This review may contain spoilers).
With this being the third book in this series that I’ve now read, I’ve found myself quite drawn into this series. Although they’re more like bite-sized books, I like the fact that each one so far has focused on one individual character. Although that means that the other characters seem a bit less three-dimensional, the character that is focused on comes across as much more well-rounded.
Even so, I felt that enough detail was given with the other characters to make them come across as quite interesting. It’s quite intriguing that Ryan (and possibly Proctor) is the only one to actually retain all of his memories. From Ai’s perspective, I found it intriguing that her priorities were to keep Proctor alive – and all of the others were just extras.
So far, I’ve found Ai to be the most interesting character, even though I’m not sure I really ‘like’ her. I felt the author did a good job of showing that her lack of speech isn’t just due to her choice not to. The glimpses of her past allowed me to empathise with her quite a lot.
I also felt Ryan’s attitude towards the others, in particular Jabo, came across really well. I could see that he felt so much differently towards them than they did to him, even despite the altercation in the previous book.
This sort of style of storytelling probably isn’t for everyone, but I’m personally quite enjoying this series so far. At some point in the future, I fully intend to read the next books in this series.
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