After Destiny

by Tanya Lisle

[Angie]

After Destiny sounded like it was going to be mysterious and exciting. It was very intriguing in the beginning, but soon I found myself bored by it. When it starts, Kitty and her team are traveling toward the mountain that appeared out of nowhere. North America has been completely decimated, so they know that mountain shouldn't be there. Well, it is there, and so is an odd woman. They bring her back to their compound, where she shows no medical signs of radiation poisoning or any other illnesses. She also knows things that she shouldn't and can escape sealed rooms.

I was very intrigued by After Destiny in the beginning. It's super weird! That mountain is just there and then it's gone once they climb back down. The woman they find has no name, so they call her Snow White, and she was super weird as well. She can walk through doors without opening them, and she can tell people things from their pasts that no one else would know. She also knows the future. Some of the people believe she's dangerous, but really, they just don't understand her and are afraid. Ed protects her, and uses the information she learns to keep the rest of the population safe from attacks.

After Destiny did start to lose me when it was clear that nothing was really happening. Snow just spouted off all of the things she saw when asked, and then she starts detailing these upcoming attacks. Some people want to throw her out, but Ed insists that she stays. But it seemed like she was only kept around because she knew when and where the attacks were coming, and yet, the attacks are because of her. She's a human that the Fates use to speak to other humans, but now that she's left the mountain, they want to kill her. If she would leave, there would be no attacks, and therefore she wouldn't need to tell them about the attacks before they happened because there would be none. This made no sense to me.

After Destiny does have a diverse cast. Ed is intersex, although this doesn't play a role in the plot at all. It's only brought up once, and it was just a way for Snow to prove her ability. Then there's Brady who has Greenberg's Syndrome, so he's seventeen but looks about six. This is brought up more often than Ed's intersexuality, and it is used to further the plot in places. Because of course, adults sometimes speak in front of children without really thinking.

In the end, After Destiny was just okay. The mix of Dystopia and Mythology could have been really interesting, but they never came together for me. I never got a full sense of this world, other than the people live underground and that's about it. The plot didn't keep me engaged either.

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