A review by thegeekybibliophile
The First City by Joe Hart
4.0
NB: If you haven't read the first two books in this series, please be aware this review will contain spoilers for those books.
In The First City, the third and final book in The Dominion Series, we come to the end of Zoey's story.
This is a fantastically satisfying wrap-up to the trilogy, and I enjoyed it immensely. There were no loose ends left dangling, and the resolution of each character's journey always seemed fitting.
I've read several books in this genre, and this trilogy ranks highly as one of the best of them. I thought the basis of the trilogy—female births almost nonexistent, and the resulting consequences of that—to be a unique take on a dystopian society; an approach that (as far as I know) had not been done before. It created an even more frantic sense of impending doom, with the very real possibility that the human race could eventually die out. The way people reacted to this catastrophe—bringing out the worst, rather than the best in them—also felt like something that could easily happen in such a world.
If you're a fan of this genre, you should give this trilogy a read. I think you'll enjoy it, as a whole, as much as I did.
I received an advance review copy of this book courtesy of Netgalley and Thomas & Mercer.
In The First City, the third and final book in The Dominion Series, we come to the end of Zoey's story.
Spoiler
Her fight has become even more crucial when she watches a video message informing her she has an unborn daughter back at the ARC... and is told she might hold the key to the survival of mankind. Unwilling to risk the lives of her friends, she sets off alone, traveling to Seattle in search of answers. What she finds is danger from both old and new threats, unexpected reunions, and—finally—the long-sought answer to who she is.This is a fantastically satisfying wrap-up to the trilogy, and I enjoyed it immensely. There were no loose ends left dangling, and the resolution of each character's journey always seemed fitting.
I've read several books in this genre, and this trilogy ranks highly as one of the best of them. I thought the basis of the trilogy—female births almost nonexistent, and the resulting consequences of that—to be a unique take on a dystopian society; an approach that (as far as I know) had not been done before. It created an even more frantic sense of impending doom, with the very real possibility that the human race could eventually die out. The way people reacted to this catastrophe—bringing out the worst, rather than the best in them—also felt like something that could easily happen in such a world.
If you're a fan of this genre, you should give this trilogy a read. I think you'll enjoy it, as a whole, as much as I did.
I received an advance review copy of this book courtesy of Netgalley and Thomas & Mercer.