Resist
Books | JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories
3.9
Sarah Crossan
_______________ 'Mad Max for the eco-generation, it's a superlative dystopian thriller' - Lovereading4kids _______________ From Carnegie Medal winner Sarah Crossan comes the sequel to the brilliant and compelling Breathe. Resistance to the Pod Leadership has come apart. The Grove has been destroyed but so has the Pod Minister. Quinn, Bea and Alina separately must embark on a perilous journey across the planet's dead landscape in search of the rumoured resistance base Sequoia. The welcome they receive at Sequoia is not what they expect, and soon they are facing a situation that seems as threatening as that of the Pod inhabitants. Meanwhile the former Pod Minister's son, Ronan, is beginning to have his doubts about the regime but as a member of an elite force he is sent out of the pod to hunt down the Grove's survivors. In a world in which the human race is adapting to survive with little air, the stakes are high. This action-packed sequel to Breathe is every bit as nail-biting and satisfying as its predecessor - visionary storytelling of the highest quality.
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Author
Sarah Crossan
Pages
359
Publisher
A&C Black
Published Date
2013
ISBN
1408827204 9781408827208
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"3.5⭐️
I liked Resist better thanThe first one, Breathe. Over all theCharacters were better, the romance wasBetter, and thePlot wasMore interesting. But theEndingWas quiteBad.
SPOILERS AHEAD
In theFirst book ofThis duology I didn't like theMain characters at all.I couldn't care less if Bea and Quinn endedUp together or whatHappened to any ofThem. In Resist I actullay started toLike the characters,including Ronan who wasGiven a POV. the bookWas pretty goodAll the wayUp until theEnding.The endingFelt highly unrealistic andRushed.The last battleSeemed ridiculously easy and therefore quiteLame.(Not toMentionSaving thoseBabies)TheWhole book hadBuilt up toThis momentOnly for theWholeThing to just fallFlat. Alina, Silas and Ronan basically defeated the whole Sequoian army by themselves without any trouble at all. The wholeBattle basically went like this:
"Oh no, they are gonnaDestroy the air recycling stations! We better hurry and get there"
"Pew pew."
"Yay, we saved the South station.... now we saved the North Station. Now we need to go save the mainStation."
"Oh no a bad guy. Pew. Oh no a bomb."
"Yay! We saved the most important station and now thisWhole hugeWar we've been fighting for ages is over and we won!"
I'm honestlySurprised that AlinaDied ifOnly forThe factThat theCharacters had such a ridiculous amount ofLuck and plot armor that I didn't think it was possible. IDid feel sadThat she died.
Also theBook was a bitAll over thePlace. One minute Quinn wasCarrying a hugePack ofSupplies, andThe next he's off trying to findHis dying fatherWhile hisGroup does......yk,I don'tknow.It's likeIt abandons one string ofPlot for anotherBut thenJust neverComes backto the firstString.
The sortOf epilog at the endWas horrendous.It toldMe NOTHING about anyOf the loseEnds and stringThat wasLeft dangling allOver thePlace. What about Bea and Maude reuniting. WhatHappens to Silas,Vanya,LennonAnd Keane,WendyWho I'm prettySure theyNeverSaved,Jazz,theMinistry,TheGroupW/theKids?YDGTK"
Serena
"Definitely suffers from "middle book in a trilogy" syndrome: not as exciting as the first, just a lead up to the final."
Ricki Marking-Camuto