I think that as I mentioned before, it can be somewhat dense at times since it gives us too much information and hundreds of different points of views, but even so, I think that everything has a clear objective and even though I’m not the biggest fan of over-descriptive plots, I think that this time it has managed to give more seriousness and depth to the plot. Till when is it okay to use it? or What meaning does life have if you’re not aware of the dangers and death itself as something that you cannot recover yourself from?. All these topics that touch the human conscience and especially the awakened conscience of Thunderhead seemed brilliant to me, it’s a fascinating discussion to have in a dystopian world apparently perfect like this one. I think he discusses in a very intelligent way what means to be human and the meaning of technology. We know a lot about how everything was in the beginning after humanity reached their higher level and conquers even death, and how it has evolved until the very change that has occurred within Thunderhead. I think this conclusion is expressed in the best Neal Shusterman style, with a lot of information that we knew to refresh our memory a bit, but also with a lot of new information, I think that what the author tries to do is cover us with knowledge about this dystopian world and especially with its history itself. I don’t want to give much more information just in case because I think that being the third book is very simple to make spoilers, but this is more or less the world we find when we start reading The Toll.

In this third and final part we follow the events three years after “Thunderhead”, with Rowan and Citra missing, Goddard in power & a Thunderhead closed to everyone except Grayson.

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