Euphoric from finally revealing her true self, Hannah finally starts to find things in her life going right as she teaches Earth about magic and has a pleasant vacation in Manumit, the city of the robotic Crafted. But of course, relaxation is always short-lived for her, and soon enough her life starts pulling her in all directions. Why did the Crafted originally go to war? Why did they so abruptly stop? How does she handle the government agents watching her house? And most importantly of all, how does she stop the impending apocalypse that the Disciples of Unification are so sure she'll cause? The end of the world is a little much for one girl and her friends to shoulder, but she can do it, right?
Except it's not a matter of if she can do it. She has to. There's no other choice.
A reminder of how powerful love is, even in a world designed to see you fail. A truly beautiful conclusion to an incredibly moving series. I will be thinking about this for a long time.
What a finale! Up until the very end I was wondering how this story was going to wrap up and I was surprised all the way to the last page. I don't know how to do spoilers, so I'll just say it doesn't end with a big smash em up Marvel fight, but it ends on an oddly hopeful note in a weirdly FF6 kinda way.
So. Many. Feels!! I kind of want to make everyone read this. In the world. To have an idea of what it is like to be LGBT+ or neurodivergent in a world that is out to get you. This entry really nails down the theme of body transformation as a metaphor for being/feeling alienated by society and family.
I loved the opening, with the world reeling and reacting to Hannah being "out" from the end of the last book. Her therapist is still one of my favorite characters. The world escalation was at parts terrifying and satisfying. I also felt like this book I finally got a good grasp on the Treeside characters--and 53114 was a great addition.
I have some problems with Hannah's behavior near the end of the book--it reminded me a lot of the behavior of people contemplating suicide--but I was also rather blown away by the path the author took to resolve things. Very audacious. And I really hope that we get to see more of this world--I'd love to return after say, a ten year time jump.
This book was really good but emotionally harrowing at points. If you're already looking into book 3, you have an idea of how well the author and narrator do to convey the events of the story. The only thing that bugged me from a personal standpoint is how poorly the main character treats her family through the entire series. True, the mom was a bit overbearing, but I kept hoping there would be some kind of reconciliation. But the credits wrapped with her still not even thinking of them as people she gave the slightest damn about.
Honestly, I'm not able to put to words all the things this book made me feel. It was hard to read and hard to finish, but the complexity of the emotions it evoked in me was worth it. Made me cry like a baby.
What a bonkers finale... so good... best finale I've seen from Thundamoo, yet... less rushed than Vigor Mortis or Hive Minds Give Good Hugs... hope there's a sequel series someday, but I just love continuing series, in general...
The heading says it all. No spoilers, but again an emotional ride across the spectrum. To paraphrase someone I watched on TV. "You are going to see some beautiful things, some good things, some bad things, and some truly horrible things. All in all it's a well balanced trip, but you will have a new apriciation when you get home." This is one hell of a story so I will say thank you to the author.