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She rescued the boy she loves, but can she save the world from a destiny written in her very DNA?
- Amnesia Romance: She remembers everything about falling in love with Tyler. He remembers nothing. Now, with the world on the line, she has to save the boy who doesn’t even know he’s hers.- A Dangerous Love Triangle: As Kyra fights for a future with Tyler, her close friend Simon makes it clear he wants to be more than just her ally in the coming war.- On the Run from a Secret Agency: A covert government division known as the Daylighters will stop at nothing to capture Kyra and turn her powers into a weapon, forcing her and her friends into hiding.- High Stakes Survival: With enemies closing in from all sides—human and alien—Kyra must decide who to trust and what she’s willing to sacrifice to protect the people she loves.
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I really enjoyed this trilogy. However, this book wasn't nearly as good as the first two, so sadly I had to give it three stars. *EDIT* After sitting on this for a year I've decided to change my rating to one star. I was lenient because the first two books were great but I'm going to have to be honest and say this book was just awful, unfortunately. Things I Liked: -Absolutely nothing, not gonna keep lying to myself. Things I Didn't Like: -There really just wasn't enough romance in this series. The first book had plenty but the last two fell flat because of all the action and things going on. It would've been nice to see more romance between Tyler and Kyra in this book. -Tyler stayed mad almost the entire book like a little bitch. He was always either avoiding Kyra or upset over something she did, whereas Simon was the same as always. At some point, I even started liking Simon more because it felt like Simon cared about Kyra more than Tyler cared about her. -There were a lot of anticlimactic moments. The story would build up to something and then everything would conveniently turn around in Kyra's favor or the conflict would just...end. Examples are when Kyra shot four people in the head, one of which was someone she was friends with and escaped by herself, despite the fact she had been held hostage for almost a week and it was made into this big thing. And when Agent Truman went from trying to capture Thom to switching sides in the matter of a second. Or when Kyra let her dad go to space and then bam he's just dead? I know he was sick but it never even explained anything. What was the point in killing him off in the last few pages? It doesn't make any sense. And Natty was just evil the whole time? No real explanation? Ok. -I felt like the group didn't really do much this time. It felt like Willow, Jett, Griffin and the others were just...there. Sometimes I would even forget that it wasn't just Kyra and Simon, or Kyra and Tyler. They were just background characters, despite everyone being together for a lot of the book. It made the whole thing feel really weird, and it was almost jarring whenever one of them would speak because I'd be like "Oh yeah, I forgot this person was supposedly with us for 100 pages." -The ending really didn't make ANY sense. What happened to Simon and the others? Did they keep in touch? Tyler's parents are just cool with Tyler dating someone in their 20s? Fireflies saved them from an explosion? Wtf? You're KIDDING right?? FIREFLIES???? And now suddenly, somehow Tyler and Kyra are human again despite their DNA being completely REPLACED with alien DNA so that shouldn't even be possible?? This is science fiction, not fantasy. Like you can't just make magic fireflies pop up out of thin air and BAM series over. Come on man. *EDIT* A year later and I am STILL fuming over this god awful ending. Like Jesus Christ. Worst freaking ending of any series ever. I'm very disappointed with this book and the ending of this series but the first two books were still great and I would still recommend this trilogy to anyone who loves YA science fiction. I'm just saying you might be better off skipping this one and just thinking up your own ending, because trust me when I say ANY ending would be better than this.
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She rescued the boy she loves, but can she save the world from a destiny written in her very DNA?
- Amnesia Romance: She remembers everything about falling in love with Tyler. He remembers nothing. Now, with the world on the line, she has to save the boy who doesn’t even know he’s hers.- A Dangerous Love Triangle: As Kyra fights for a future with Tyler, her close friend Simon makes it clear he wants to be more than just her ally in the coming war.- On the Run from a Secret Agency: A covert government division known as the Daylighters will stop at nothing to capture Kyra and turn her powers into a weapon, forcing her and her friends into hiding.- High Stakes Survival: With enemies closing in from all sides—human and alien—Kyra must decide who to trust and what she’s willing to sacrifice to protect the people she loves.
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I really enjoyed this trilogy. However, this book wasn't nearly as good as the first two, so sadly I had to give it three stars. *EDIT* After sitting on this for a year I've decided to change my rating to one star. I was lenient because the first two books were great but I'm going to have to be honest and say this book was just awful, unfortunately. Things I Liked: -Absolutely nothing, not gonna keep lying to myself. Things I Didn't Like: -There really just wasn't enough romance in this series. The first book had plenty but the last two fell flat because of all the action and things going on. It would've been nice to see more romance between Tyler and Kyra in this book. -Tyler stayed mad almost the entire book like a little bitch. He was always either avoiding Kyra or upset over something she did, whereas Simon was the same as always. At some point, I even started liking Simon more because it felt like Simon cared about Kyra more than Tyler cared about her. -There were a lot of anticlimactic moments. The story would build up to something and then everything would conveniently turn around in Kyra's favor or the conflict would just...end. Examples are when Kyra shot four people in the head, one of which was someone she was friends with and escaped by herself, despite the fact she had been held hostage for almost a week and it was made into this big thing. And when Agent Truman went from trying to capture Thom to switching sides in the matter of a second. Or when Kyra let her dad go to space and then bam he's just dead? I know he was sick but it never even explained anything. What was the point in killing him off in the last few pages? It doesn't make any sense. And Natty was just evil the whole time? No real explanation? Ok. -I felt like the group didn't really do much this time. It felt like Willow, Jett, Griffin and the others were just...there. Sometimes I would even forget that it wasn't just Kyra and Simon, or Kyra and Tyler. They were just background characters, despite everyone being together for a lot of the book. It made the whole thing feel really weird, and it was almost jarring whenever one of them would speak because I'd be like "Oh yeah, I forgot this person was supposedly with us for 100 pages." -The ending really didn't make ANY sense. What happened to Simon and the others? Did they keep in touch? Tyler's parents are just cool with Tyler dating someone in their 20s? Fireflies saved them from an explosion? Wtf? You're KIDDING right?? FIREFLIES???? And now suddenly, somehow Tyler and Kyra are human again despite their DNA being completely REPLACED with alien DNA so that shouldn't even be possible?? This is science fiction, not fantasy. Like you can't just make magic fireflies pop up out of thin air and BAM series over. Come on man. *EDIT* A year later and I am STILL fuming over this god awful ending. Like Jesus Christ. Worst freaking ending of any series ever. I'm very disappointed with this book and the ending of this series but the first two books were still great and I would still recommend this trilogy to anyone who loves YA science fiction. I'm just saying you might be better off skipping this one and just thinking up your own ending, because trust me when I say ANY ending would be better than this.