Reviews

Désolation by Carrie Jones

sonshinelibrarian's review against another edition

3.75

Note: I read this whole series in like 2 weeks and didn't immediately rate/review, so I'm gonna be pretty vague, especially if I'm afraid I'm mixing up what happened in which book.

One of the things I really like about this series is the cast of friends that gather around Zara who are all important to the plot in their own ways. This final book was a pretty good wrap up to the series.

cancourtneyread's review against another edition

5.0

So freaking amazing! It was the perfect ending to the perfect series. I can't believe it's all over...

sparkwaren's review against another edition

2.0

2.5

stewartbrittany26's review against another edition

medium-paced

5.0

demonsreadtoo's review against another edition

2.0

I’ve been stuck on this one for a while, and it’s slowed down my reviewing because of it. Something must have changed in my tastes since I read the last one because I just couldn’t get into Endure. It took me what felt like ages to get through Zara’s often immature inner monologues and barely plotted journey. It really felt like there was nothing happening. The characters went places, sought out things, even brought together a large scale battle, but it still felt like there was very little to the story. The romantic aspect was especially lacking, even though there was a love triangle. Neither boy brought much in the way of swoon-worthiness, leaving me wondering why I even bothered with this book.

Read the full review at my blog, Demons Read Too

ajones623's review against another edition

2.0

Sentences such as the following "It's warm in Florida, even at night." are what brought this book down. There was a lot of meaningless statements and stupidity.

katkinney's review against another edition

4.0

I enjoyed this conclusion to the NEED series. Zara and Astley have gotten Nick back from Valhalla, but all is not well since Zara is still a pixie and Nick=not okay with pixies. Poor Zara. Also, there is mounting pressure from the coming pixie war, which the gang has to somehow figure out how to defend their little snowy town in Maine from, while Zara decides which of her guys she wants to be with. All in all, had lots of action and was a satisfying conclusion to the series.

Please excuse typos. Entered on screen reader.

hollylash's review against another edition

3.0

This is honestly the first book I've read where the main character didn't end up with the first guy she met.

...And that's why I LOVED it.

You can tell by the end of the series that Nick and Zara are two completely different people then who they were when they first met. And if they had ended up together, I would've been extremely disappointed because they just don't fit together anymore. Astley, on the other hand, has grown with Zara and supports her no matter what or who she is. I loved that. Finally, some actual goddamn sense.

The only thing I didn't love was the whole Loki thing. I mean, really? REALLY? Loki, the all-powerful, all-cunning trickster, forgot he could shapeshift for eons and it takes a human girl reminding him of that for him to remember? I can extend my disbelief pretty far, but even that I had to read several times before I was like screw it, moving on.

Other than that, loved it. Beautiful ending to an otherwise flawed series.

angelicasreads's review against another edition

2.0

“Sometimes the monsters are not monsters...and sometimes the monsters are within us all, even in those we think are most good.”

Well it's finally over. After reading the first three books back in 2011 and having to wait an eternity and a half for this to come out, it's finally over. This was one of my less anticipated books to read and I honestly didn't care if I didn't finish it but I pushed myself. In the end it meet my expectations which honestly were pretty darn low. It's really more like a 2.5

This book takes place a few weeks after the third book, [b:Entice|8069535|Entice (Need, #3)|Carrie Jones|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1305547585s/8069535.jpg|12769820], ends. Now, since I read this like 2 years ago I was a bit lost. I usually remember things in books fairly well but hey it was two years and a story that I don't really like. So yeah.

This is pretty much what happened in the book:
Nick is a jerk
Astley is awesome
Bad guys hurt Astley
Zara to the rescue
They go find bad guys
Look things up on the internet
(Repeat those steps like five or four times)
Free Loki

That's about it

Now what pissed me off was the internet thing. EVERYTHING they got was from the internet. EVERYTHING!!!! Like I get that there is some real crazy crap out there but seriously? "Where is the gate to Hel?" ...LET'S LOOK ON LINE! "How do not free Loki" ...I KNOW LET'S GOOGLE IT! "How do we save the world?"... I'LL GO GET MY LAPTOP!!

It's like Ms. Jones had run out of ideas and decided to take the easy road and just throw in the word internet a couple times. Though I admit I'd rather that than have the characters sounding stupid with random facts. Though honestly they sounded stupid enough. They were all like:


All while I was like:



Seriously the only one making sense was Isla, the supposed crazy person, she was the only one who saw how dumb they were.

"The internet? You base your defense against the apocalypse on information you've gathered from the internet...?"

It kept reminding me of that StateFarm commercial with the "French model" you know the one I'm taking about.

In the end I'm glad it's over. It was OK, not the worst book I've read but not the best. I was never really a fan of the series but continued with it because I always continue a series unless it's so bad I want to die *cough* [b:Evermore|3975774|Evermore (The Immortals, #1)|Alyson Noel|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1362336360s/3975774.jpg|4021549] *cough*. I found the characters really stupid, not personality wise but actually lacking inteligence and there is nothing I hate more than that. Still, I'm glad for the closure but pissed it took so long to get here.

P.S.

Sorry for all the Loki it's just that he is kind of important in this book and when he finally showed up I kept seeing the Loki from Thor and the Avengers. It was really hard to imagine him being kind when all I saw was this :

And a little of this:




LOVE YOU LOKI!!

andreiagdo's review against another edition

3.0

Wellll, for me, the first 2 books were kind of bad. Like the idea was there but it just lacked something. And then the author involved Norse mythology to explain some stuff but... I think she should have chosen another folklore background. Because it didn't make sense. In my head at least. And I had the feeling that the story sidetracked in the second book. For the third and fourth books, the story was just nice. I wasn't even emotionally attached, so I actually didn't care. (UNLESS SOMETHING HAPPENED TO ASTLEY)
I think the idea of pixies should have been explored differently. They seemed an interesting Fae creature.
About the characters, my all time favourite was Astley; and Cassidy comes next. Zara annoyed me sometimes and I couldn't give a shit about Nick. (In so many parts, I was like, 'what were you expecting Zara? Are you stupid?') 
And there was a love triangle but at least it was well executed; we could see that one of the relationships wasn't meant to be.