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A review by cornmaven
The Final Descent by Rick Yancey
5.0
A most marvelous Shakespearean ending to a series that I have ever read. Is it a supreme tale of madness or merely a tale about the human condition, "the most aberrant of aberrant life forms"?
You as the reader end up without conclusions, like the circle that Yancey uses as one of his strongest metaphors in this story. If you don't believe at the start that humanity is a paradox, and a paradox with which you must become comfortable in order to survive and not go mad, you will at the end. Or you will go mad. Either or.
You as the reader will also be treated to exquisite language, many literary references, and scary scary stuff. When I read "without love without pity without hope, harsh cold merciless leviathan of the lightless heatless deep" I stopped breathing. Because it was such an amazing way to string those words together.
And I have to love a story that honors Hamlet.
I wish GoodReads had six stars.
You as the reader end up without conclusions, like the circle that Yancey uses as one of his strongest metaphors in this story. If you don't believe at the start that humanity is a paradox, and a paradox with which you must become comfortable in order to survive and not go mad, you will at the end. Or you will go mad. Either or.
You as the reader will also be treated to exquisite language, many literary references, and scary scary stuff. When I read "without love without pity without hope, harsh cold merciless leviathan of the lightless heatless deep" I stopped breathing. Because it was such an amazing way to string those words together.
And I have to love a story that honors Hamlet.
I wish GoodReads had six stars.