Obsidio

"4/5"

"Just finished rereading this one! Love it so much, this is for sure my favorite trilogy. "

"This was SUCH a FANTASTIC series!!!!!! I LOVED (most of) The characters and their arcs!!!!! I'm also Very glad it ended the way it did, though the final part felt a bit rushed to me. I feel like it would have been more satisfying if they had talked about the actual trial a Little bit more. I'm also Very upset about my Favorite character being LEFT BEHIND :'((((((( My final issue with this (and this is honestly an issue with the who series) is that I did Not like <i>any</i> of the Romantic pairings. They all felt a little flat to me. I liked the characters individually!!!!! I just don't think the Romance was necessary. That being said, I ADORED the world building and writing style!!!!!! I'm definitely going to be thinking about this series for a While!!!"

"AAAHHHHH!!!!<br/>All the emotions running through this one! What a great way to end the series. Or at least I think it’s over. AIDEN in the end makes me think differently. But I loved this one just about as much as I loved the first one. And the second book was a great way to continue to love the new and old character developments. HOWEVER! I’m not taking a star off because I loved it anyways but what a roller coaster of emotions. If the writers had left in that Ezra, Nick and Katya had all died instead of revealing that they all lived it would have kept the raw, broken heart emotions that journeyed along the way with this story. I was glad they didn’t die because Ezra was the reason I continued the first book, I missed Ezra in majority of the second book but Nick was a close comparison in personality, and Katya….well we don’t get to know much of her but we do root for her survival. Hurting, abusing and killing kids and animals is the worst and makes me really upset to read or see in books and movies. But to create such emotion for me in a book is really going to bring a big impression for me remembering the story. I am glad they were all okay in the end but knowing for just a small portion of the time to believe they were dead made me that much more invested in the character development and story for the rest of the characters to gain justice in the end. But thankfully they got justice and everyone lived! Also glad the kitty got away as well before the explosion. <br/><br/>Listening to this on audiobook was just the absolute best experience that I didn’t know I needed in my life. AIDEN switching personas was just the chills up my spine that I needed for him to be a monster, a savior, an ally and a neutral in the entire story! The sound effects in this last book were just top notch!!!! I could not recommend the audiobook enough!!!! Even if you’ve already read the book but want to re-read it, definitely listen to it via audiobook!"

"Will leave you wanting for breath!!! I will forever love parachutes!!! &#x1f606;"

"If i'm being honest... this series just went down hill after the first book. I could barely finish this one. The concept was so cool, but in my opinion it was trying to hard. It would be such a cool movie, I just don't think I am going to read the novella for this series. It's too much and I feel like if I do it'll put me in a reading slump. Half of this book I skimmed because I could feel myself slipping into a slump. Though, this book was pretty easy to skim but still retain what I was reading because there was so few words per page the way it is formatted. Even if it is like 600+ pages. One star from me... I really wanted to enjoy these books. Bummed I didn't."

"By far one of the best conclusions to a series I have ever read."

"3.5"

"Great conclusion!"

"I will be honest.. This review and rating is a completely biased review due to triggers. <br/><br/>I loooooved the first two books. Like loved loved. I was so excited to read Obsidio and for a good portion of the book I was pretty happy trucking along and then bam.... I had to stop reading. I know that all the books are pretty harrowing and I expected lots of rough topics in this one and maybe the writing was on the wall for where this book might go. In any case, I spent a lot of time trying to skim the next few pages to try to just get through to different conflict scenarios in the book. <br/><br/>I will say this though the book/series has a lot at stake, but not. The authors have real attachment to their main cast of characters and nothing ever really puts them at risk. Yes there are a few fake out moments but all the risk and horror mainly lays outside of the main casting group. There is a security from the end of the first book knowing who is the Illuminae Group lets you know that even though everything is terrible in the books the cast you like make it through it all. <br/><br/>With that said. The book is still impeccably written. It's fun and engaging and reading it to the end was still so great. The only reason I have to rate it a 3 is because of my reading experience. I struggled to get through to the end because of everything the Kerenza colony had/has to go through. It physically hurt me. I would still highly recommend this book to just about anyone since its such a good series, the only reason I struggled was due to my own triggers."