Storm

Triskelia #3

by Carrie Mac

In her new role as leader, Sabine is struggling to guide Triskelia to victory in the battle against the Keyland Guard. At first she's grateful for Seth's army of boy soldiers and his seeming allegiance with the rebels, but as the casualties mount, she begins to question his intentions.

And yet, despite his army's youth and inexperience, Seth is determined to meet the Guard head-on and prove to his family that his loyalty lies with them.

Meanwhile, as bombs and gunfire explode around their heads, Eli is tasked with escorting child refugees away from the front line - but a newfound addiction to dust has distorted his priorities and hinders his communication with the highers.

With enemies at every turn, it will take all their strength and resilience to topple the keys and free the Droughtlanders. And the Maddox siblings -- as mind, body and soul of the revolution -- have one final goal in mind: to find their father, Edmund, and make him pay for his crimes.

When the storm finally abates, who will go on to lead the new world ... in whatever form it takes?

Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Canada, Fiction, Dystopia, Adventure, Action

286 pages, Paperback

First published May 6, 2008

About the author

Four-eyed bookworm, tattooed queer, storyteller nomad mama to two unschooled earthlings, based in East Van, overlooking the shipyard cranes and always ready for the next most amazing giant tiny little big wonderful something to capture my attention.

Or:

When Carrie Mac was born, her right eye gawked off in one direction while her left eye looked the other way. Well meaning adults thought she was a changeling and so they wrapped her up and put her on the porch for the fairies to take back, please and thank you. It was snowing. It was dark. No fairies came. The same well meaning adults decided she'd catch her death out there. So they brought her in and kept her after all.

She's read millions of books, and has sat happily at the feat of a legion of storytellers. She is equally fascinated by disaster and grace. car wrecks, hurricanes, plagues, and genocides on the one hand, small and stunning everyday miracles on the other. She sometimes wishes she were a pirate. She'd often wished she'd run away and joined the circus when she had the chance. She spends a great deal of time in the company of her imagination, and when she isn't, she's wide eyed and awed by this planet and the people running amok all over it.

Reviews

[alyssa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an excellent finale to the series; and although it took me something like 7 years to finally get through this series, I’m glad I took the time to do it!

I really appreciate all the topics this series highlights, especially since I’m assuming the target audience is YA readers. With things like teen pregnancy, resource hoarding, and drug dependancy being highlighted throughout - I’m glad I read this when I was a preteen.
What I didn’t remember from my original read..is how religiously driven some of this novel is? I forgot about the whole evolution of Eli, which was a bit of a letdown as far as most of the characters went.

[Iringo Duha · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Where is the plot going????" I wondered as I read this book, feeling lost.

The first book was truly amazing, the second not so great but bearable, and then I read this and felt no satisfaction when I finished the book. What happened to the trinity? Weren't Sabine, Seth, and Eli supposed to work together?!

- I gave up on Eli who played a part almost as an extra (despite being crucial in the first book... I loved his character)
- Sabine was suddenly ignorant and a shadow of her old self, acting desperately, wasting lives
- Meanwhile Seth was not a major disappointment but overall lacking in depth as a person, very one-sided and the we barely ever saw him as anything other than the 'warlord' and 'Rosa's lover'

There was nothing unexpected in this book (not in the second either) it was as though the author finished a brilliant book, had no clue of where to take it, and wrote two sequels just to get it over with.

I was GENUINELY excited to see the three of them grow together, bond, to have honest conversations and maybe have some more emotion involved. I should have expected no such thing, obviously. Do you remember that psychic connection that they had? It's practically irrelevant, it could have become such an interesting part of the trilogy... that the triplets were connected not only physically but mentally as well. The three of them only get together in the end at the Eastern Key, after Eli blows up a base so that the weather could be freed, after Seth and Sabine had taken down the other Keys (SEPARATELY!).

I could keep ranting, but I wish I'd just read the first book and forgotten about the series.

[Hannah Burman · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the series. However I liked the first one better. Eli is a great character and the last book just kinda shoved him to the side. And what's with him becoming a reverend? And he tries dust after seeing the effects on Nappo? Like seriously? And after all that he ends up alone? It made me kinda sad. I also really liked Seth; he had great character development and his relationship with Rosa is so sweet. Overall though I really loved the trilogy despite the third book.

[Leslie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked reading the final book of the trilogy (although there is a possibility to continue, so maybe?...) but the constant war kind of got to me. The relationships between characters are as interesting as ever though and I'd recommend this to YA or sci fi readers.

[Neill Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

As the triplets separate – Sabine to lead the Triskelians to battle with the Keys, Eli to lead the orphans to safety, and Seth to prove his loyalty to Sabine and Eli – they manage to snatch victories from the shadow of defeat in a final conflict that costs them dearly.

[James T. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely love this series, and I'm sad it's over. My emotions were all over the place, and this book was just perfect, maybe a little too much war, but good nonetheless.