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A review by gelisvb
The Toll by Neal Shusterman
3.0
Don't get me wrong, this was a good ending plotwise; it make sense and is well plotted and it does not leave loose ends.
But it has one of my worst Pet peeves: The "The author lost interestes in his protagonists and got distracted with the shining new ones that were introducted in this last book"
If you take a drink every time that Rowan and Citra were mentioned in the whole book, you wouldn't probably even get tipsy.
I'll say more: if you take them of entirely from the plot of this last book, nothing would change. Seriously. Sometimes they are mentioned, they do some vague staff, but overall, had the author decided to leave them dead, the plot would have worked out just fine.
This book is very Thunderheard driven.
It works, I am satisfied with the book itself, but I'll never be ok with an author being over his protagonists, sometimes it's hard enough for the reader to care, but for the author to care and write abut his protagonist is the bare minimun.
But it has one of my worst Pet peeves: The "The author lost interestes in his protagonists and got distracted with the shining new ones that were introducted in this last book"
If you take a drink every time that Rowan and Citra were mentioned in the whole book, you wouldn't probably even get tipsy.
I'll say more: if you take them of entirely from the plot of this last book, nothing would change. Seriously. Sometimes they are mentioned, they do some vague staff, but overall, had the author decided to leave them dead, the plot would have worked out just fine.
This book is very Thunderheard driven.
It works, I am satisfied with the book itself, but I'll never be ok with an author being over his protagonists, sometimes it's hard enough for the reader to care, but for the author to care and write abut his protagonist is the bare minimun.