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A review by llim
Nothing Left to Lose by Dan Wells
3.0
A happy ending. That was unexpected. And...unsatisfying.
Some qualms:
-Why were all the Withered in America? Lol their number has been whittled down to 3, but John has only been hitchhiking in the US. If the Withered really wanted to survive...they could have just moved abroad.
-John's about face at the end. Oh, let's forgive the 10,000 year-old Withered woman who has murdered god knows how many people simply because she is a mother figure. And the fact that the FBI guy went along with it. I did like his and John's dynamic. Though, John did seem overly snarky in this book. Bordering on annoying.
-Is it believable that an 18 year old with no lockpicking experience was able to pick the lock on his handcuffs in the midst of a stressful situation? Without the FBI people (who were talking to him) noticing?
-Such a short book.
-that happy ending. John gets to live in a mortuary (returning to his roots), with a replacement mother, and then his FBI buddy covers for him and so the government isn't after him anymore. He has a potential girlfriend in that girl who also works at the mortuary. And the FBI guy even brings him his dog and his aunt and sister so he can have a reunion.
There was actually no downside to this happy ending, save for Brooke/Marcy. But since neither of them were in this book, it didn't feel like such a big downside.
Also, fuck, I would have taken the powers and immortality >___> Can't sympathize with characters who choose normalcy...
Not the best of the series (ugh that ending really left a bad taste in my mouth), but it was still good.
Some qualms:
-Why were all the Withered in America? Lol their number has been whittled down to 3, but John has only been hitchhiking in the US. If the Withered really wanted to survive...they could have just moved abroad.
-John's about face at the end. Oh, let's forgive the 10,000 year-old Withered woman who has murdered god knows how many people simply because she is a mother figure. And the fact that the FBI guy went along with it. I did like his and John's dynamic. Though, John did seem overly snarky in this book. Bordering on annoying.
-Is it believable that an 18 year old with no lockpicking experience was able to pick the lock on his handcuffs in the midst of a stressful situation? Without the FBI people (who were talking to him) noticing?
-Such a short book.
-that happy ending. John gets to live in a mortuary (returning to his roots), with a replacement mother, and then his FBI buddy covers for him and so the government isn't after him anymore. He has a potential girlfriend in that girl who also works at the mortuary. And the FBI guy even brings him his dog and his aunt and sister so he can have a reunion.
There was actually no downside to this happy ending, save for Brooke/Marcy. But since neither of them were in this book, it didn't feel like such a big downside.
Also, fuck, I would have taken the powers and immortality >___> Can't sympathize with characters who choose normalcy...
Not the best of the series (ugh that ending really left a bad taste in my mouth), but it was still good.