Ruby is back and Never Fade picks up a few months after the end of The Darkest Minds.
I am going to try to do this in a spoiler free way, but if you haven't read book 1 please stop here.
Ruby has a new group of "friends," now that she is with The League, Nico, Vida (who gets the short story at the end of this book the way Liam did in book 1), and Jude.
She misses Liam and Chubs but is convinced she did the right thing. That is until it is discovered that the life of her and her team are in danger and the revelation of the prisoner they rescued on an Op.
It's kind of frightening to see how Lord of the Flies some of the groups of kids have gone when left to their own devices. I'm not sure if Bracken intended to include a message about adults needing to protect kids from themselves as they grow into adults to allow them to grow and mature in a safe and healthy way, but that is something I was left thinking. In both books we get to see examples of what happens when adults aren't doing a good job of providing the care and instruction needed for kids to mature into healthy and productive adults as well as what happens when they do. And not all the kids left to their own follow the path of destruction, greed, fend for oneself at all costs, some even with the trauma they have been through form healthy bonds and want to do right and be better. It's interesting. But it isn't a beat you over the head soapbox. The story is full of excitement and tension.
And after the way this one ended, I need book 3 ASAP but my local store doesn't have any so it will be a couple of days!!!! BOOO!!!!
(Finished July 27, 2018)
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