Emma (SCR)
Written on Aug 19, 2018
This book picks up exactly where Rising Storm left off. Again the book flicked between Alice and Carter's POV 90 years apart. I always love a dual POV so this was an aspect I really enjoyed. It was interesting to see how the world had changed in those 90 years and how much it hadn't. How much of it had been planned from the very beginning.
I actually found Alice quite irritating in this book. She acted very entitled through a lot of it and I'm not sure why. She wanted everyone to be equal but then she kept saying 'I'm Alice Davenport' as if it meant something. Like it gave her special privileges. All it did was get her into more trouble than she was in before. The thing that was hard to remember is that they were all children. They had gone through so much that you forget that they are 14/15/16.
Carter really came into his own in this book. He has grown so much since he was unfrozen. He has had his eyes opened about the way the community really is and what they have been doing for the last 90 years. I really enjoyed his parts of the book.
I loved how the characters are actually connected and a family tree would be a fab addition for the next book to help keep things fresh.
Ceri did a great job of flicking between the timelines smoothly and had little links between the two that threaded them all together. I really liked the ending of this book and it has left me hanging a to where the third book will go.