Asunder (Incarnate Trilogy, #2)

by Jodi Meadows

[Stephanie]

I cannot explain how weird these books are! In a good way. These books remind me of the Beautiful Creatures series, only because they're both somewhat slow paced, but I'm fascinated with the world that they live in, so I'm not completely disliking the book.

This book picks up right where Incarnate left off. Now Ana's mission is to keep all the newsouls safe from all the hostile oldsouls who think the newsouls are the end of the world. But this proves to be rather difficult because people are extremely upset that some of their friends will not be coming back, ever, and now they have to deal with these newsouls.

For most of the book I was trying to wrap my head around what it would be like to live for 5,000 years with the same people, with the comfort of knowing that if you die, you'll just be reincarnated. But then Templedark happened, and now they know that some people will never come back. How do people, who have lived with the same people for 5,000 years, deal with this? They've never dealt with grief before, but now it's a real thing. I feel like Meadows did well with this. Most of the oldsouls holed themselves up for months, while others were sad, but still managed to move on. But then there were some who got mad, and were blaming Ana for the lose of their friends.

There's a lot that happened toward the end of the book that I would love to talk about, but it would kind of spoil the book a little. The thing with Janan really amazes me with how strange the idea is. This thing is living inside the walls that protect Heart? How did this happen? How does one end up like this? Where did this magic come from?

I feel like Asunder raises a lot more questions, and I'm hoping that they all get answered in the next book, Infinite. With the crazy things that happened in Asunder, I will definitely be picking up Infinite.