You will want to read the others in the series, Delirium and Pandemonium before reading this review.
Lena can hardly believe that Alex is alive. After falling in love with Julian, she doesn't know where to turn. At the same time, her best friend, Hana, is preparing to marry the mayor, and life seems to be working out just as she planned after her cure. Will either of them find happiness or safety in a world that is at war? Sorry to say that I did not enjoy this final book in the trilogy. There was too much thought process and not enough action for me. Also there was a lot more swearing (though there was some in the first two) in this last book. The ending for me did not make me feel like the story was wrapped up, and I kept waiting for something more that was not there.
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It was the one thing everyone wanted in World War II. The bomb. Not only would countries work against their enemies, but sometimes against their "allies." Germany, the United States, and Russia race to create the world's deadliest weapon, the atomic bomb.
This is where the truth is stranger than fiction. The spying part of the story was much more interesting than how the bomb was created, though both were fascinating. It makes one shiver when you think how close we came to not winning the war and the decisions that were made to end the war. Were we right in bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki? That's a question we still ask today as other countries, like Iran and North Korea, race for their own nuclear weapons. We wonder what have we unleashed, but at the same time, if we had not bombed first, would someone |
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