The First 7 (The Last 8, #2)

by Laura Pohl

[shannonmiz]

You can find the full review and all the fancy and/or randomness that accompanies it at It Starts at Midnight

3.5*

I quite enjoyed The Last 8 when I read it last year. I thought it would make an awesome movie, and I stand by that, and I add to it, because I think that this sequel would make a pretty badass movie as well.

This is an even harder than usual sequel to review (and as you know, I frequently find them difficult!) because of how massively spoilery it would be for me to tell you, oh, anything about this one. World, characters, plot... hard nopes all around. I will say this: I got to know all the characters much better than I did in the first book, which was quite great. Also, the plot didn't go where I expected it to, and I ended up really enjoying it and found it to be a great choice on the author's part.

I will say that I found a few things a little... convenient, which is probably the only thing that I didn't fully enjoy. (Well, that and I found parts of the ending a wee bit convoluted and hard to wrap my head around, but that could just be me tbh.) But as a whole, it was a pretty solid sequel and a satisfying conclusion.

Bottom Line: "First we have to survive. Then we can find our humanity again." -Marcus Kane, The 100