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The End by Charlie Higson

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cantsaybreakaleg's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful relaxing sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

If I could give it six stars I would. The best young adult series I’ve ever read. The characters have developed so much over the seven books

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I cried sm when jester died

drblump's review

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adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

3.5

actualrockstar's review against another edition

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dark emotional tense fast-paced

5.0

Solid conclusion to a fabulous series. I only held out from 5 stars because there were still a few things that I felt Mr. Higson left unanswered. I would love if the book had an epilogue that was from Small Sam's perspective about 10 years after the final chapter. That would have been epic.

itsgack's review

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5.0

God this series. There is no other series that compare to the love I have for this one. The stories, the writing, the characters - are perfection. There is something about this series that gets me every time and the fact that I’ve never met someone who has read them just leaves me sad because I could talk about it forever.

The End is everything you could ask for. The perfect bow on a present. Everything comes to a close beautifully and you get everything you wanted. This series is just amazing because Higson makes us root for the children and cheer and cry for them. Hell yeah I cried because the story is just so beautiful and the deaths of characters serve purpose and you never know who won’t make it. The fight, the victory, the end. I will always cry when Sam finally sees Ella. Ending with them reuniting is all we wanted and needed. “She was Ella. Just as she’d always been. His sister, Ella. Ella. Ella. And now they were together and nothing was ever going to separate them again.” This was perfect end of Sam’s journey to find his sister.

I’m terrible at reviews bc I don’t know how to express all I feel. This book makes me want that so that more people read it bc it needs to be read. God I love this series. It will always be my favorite series.

univerzaldad's review

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3.0

I am mostly upset with how rushed this book felt. It should have been longer and should have been more detailed.Why was there no explanation of Chris being able to see ghosts? Was he crazy? He have powers? It was mentioned once in book 3 and then mentioned again at the very end of book 7. That’s lazy. Malik’s story was really interesting, but then he had a couple lines in the last book? The final pages of Sam seeing Ella felt so lame and rushed, as if this was some coincidence thing that happened. Easily my favorite character, or one of them, is Ed. He was around since book 2 but for some reason almost an afterthought in this book…I don’t get it. So many things left unexplained and I understand not everything needs or will get a proper explanation but some of these things NEEDED to be addressed.

At the end of the day this book had some really great characters, fight scenes, and gross but fantastic detail of deaths, sickos, etc. I do recommend this series to anyone who loves these types of stories, some who don’t too. I finished these 7 books in 3 weeks, they do really grab you and pull you in and make you want to keep reading.

Thanks!

artemis's review

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i havenʼt reviewed past parts of this series, so this is just going to be the summary of my feelings towards the books.

and the feelings are, to say the least, mixed. some parts of this series got 5 stars from me, some others got 3 stars, there was also one that got just one star.
the reason? the characters. even though they started it all, i completely hated the waitrose crew. there wasnʼt a single person who i wouldnʼt find annoying, except for arran, who died right away, unfortunately. although i have mad respect to the author for making me so attached to characters who would die in the same parts they were introduced. (yes, my favorites in the series were arran, jack,

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ed, sam and the kid, who were thankfully spared. i feel like i would lose it if yet another of my favorite characters died.)

the spread of characters throughout the series was just so uneven. sometimes i would skim-read a whole book, or completely omit some fragments. because i couldnʼt care less about the characters who i found annoying, and honestly, they hadnʼt even contributed that much to the plot, after all, so maybe it was a good idea to skip their parts.

if i was to rate all the parts together, i would go for a 3-star rating. like i said, the quality of the books, for me, would vary from excellent to worthless, depending on which people showed up in them.
iʼm not a fan of that myself, but when it comes to this series, i can say without a heavy heart that skipping some books is sometimes okay.