![]() ![]() It’s recovered through well-crafted sentences, especially Bick’s signature, deliberate cliffhanger chapter endings that ensure that readers won’t be able to stop until they’ve reached the climactic showdown. There are so many near brushes with death that, at times, danger becomes tedious and expected, losing some tension. ![]() The jarring narration jumps back and forth between Alex’s story and the other characters’, often in short bursts with deadly-peril parallels in characters’ situations. Meanwhile, other familiar faces reappear, each belonging to one of various other small groups scrapping for survival. Rescued from a cave-in by Wolf, she rejoins the Changed, despite the risk of ending up on the menu, and gradually learns Wolf’s and Peter’s secrets. Picking up immediately where Shadows (2012) left off, indomitable heroine Alex again claws her way out of one danger and into another. All of the Ashes Trilogy storylines converge in this action-packed series conclusion. ![]()
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