In The End by Demitria Lunette

[gilda_elise]

It's been three months since Amy escaped New Hope. And she's been surviving on her own, like she did before she was "rescued" and taken to what she thought was a safe haven. Then, in the midst of foraging for supplies, her former fellow Guardian's voice rings out in her earpiece. And in a desperate tone, Kay utters the four words Any had hoped she would never hear:

Dr. Reynolds has Baby.

Now it's a race against time, for Baby is in imminent danger, her life threatened by the malevolent doctor who had helped start the end of the world. In order to save Baby, Amy will have to make her way to Fort Black, a former prison-turned-survivor colony.

But before she can do any of this, she'll have to endure the darkest places—and people—of the prison. And one small slip-up could not only cost Baby and Amy their lives, but threaten the survival of he people in the After.

Boy, was I ever disappointed in this book. Given how much I enjoyed the first, I was looking forward to Amy's exile and how she would deal with it, and her loss of Baby.

The short answer would be "not well."

I understand that Amy is young, but even the young can learn from their mistakes. If I had had to read one more time of Amy rushing into danger after explicitly being told to stay where she is! I would have... well, I don't know what I would have done. It got so that the reader knew exactly what was going to happen next. There would be danger, Amy would run right into it, someone else would have to rescue her, and then the same thing would happen all over again.

Add to this the rushed ending, and you have a very unsatisfying read. The first book had its faults, I'm assuming the author is new to writing, but I never would have imagined that the second would have so many more.

Comments

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh dear - that doesn't sound good at all... As soon as you mentioned "Baby" I sort of remembered a previous description (obviously from your first review!) and it all sounded quite hopeful - until you got to your opinion of it, rather than the blurb! Just rats - it's so awfully disappointing when a book doesn't work as it should, isn't it...

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Especially when you've had to wait for the sequel! The first book did set up an intriguing scenario, but the second didn't follow up on it very well. I think this is the end of "teen" stories for me. *g*