the dark and hollow places by carrie ryan

This one isn't as in-your-face the entire book and could be argued doesn't technically exist because Annah keeps internally admitting she's not in love with Elias. I also was pleased to see some of the threads from the previous books resolved, but it still irritates me that there's yet another love triangle. The plot is gripping and fast-paced and fully laden with suspense. I also think Ryan has just continued to improve as a writer. I literally felt my heart rate increase during some chapters and I think I may have developed a crippling fear of the dark! Without a doubt this is certainly the most intense of the trilogy. Suffice it to say, I definitely can't say that about this book. I don't really have any specific reason I can give for why perhaps my mind just glossed over those bits everyone found so horrifying. Being pretty squeamish when it comes to horror, it surprises me that I haven't found them particularly frightening. The most common description I hear about this trilogy is how scary the first two books were. It is a great book! I just wish there was a next one! I want to yell at the recruiters, and cheer Annah and her crew on. The author is so good at describing the environment and what is happening that I feel like I am right there with Annah. There is so much emotion that you feel through these characters as they try everything they can to survive. Annah mostly calls them Unconsecrated from her memories of living in the forest as a child. In the first one is as Unconsecrated, the second book was Mudo, and this one they people of the dark city call them plague rats. Just like the last two books there is a new word for the undead. She is always looking for a way out, a way to escape, a way to live. Annah doesn't just give up when the horde of unconsecrated are taking over, or when the recruiters have trapped her. This is a very depressing book, but it is also about the struggle to live and to fight. But, on her way out, on the other side of the bridge she notices a girl entering the city, a girl who looks just like her, her long lost twin! After that everything spirals out of control. But one day, after she watches an infected women plummet to her death alone without anyone to remember her, Annah decides she is tired of waiting and decides to leave to city. She minds her own business, keeps her head down and tries to be invisible as she waits for him to come back.

'What would you do if you knew you had only a few days left to live?' Asked many times during the book as things get desperate for the characters, when they are faced with a horde of unconsecrated that flow into the dark city in a matter of minutes wiping out civilization as they thirst for uninfected blood.Īnnah has been on her own for 3 years after Elias left her.

The dark and hollow places by carrie ryan