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Oh my .......

I don't know what I was expecting but this was not it.
Let me start by saying that I loved the first book. It gave me chills, it gave me goosebumps so many times and I can still remember the reading experience. It was not a perfect book, but it was a good book.

I got really excited, and worried, for the second book.

My expectations were not high but it was still disappointing.
Without spoiling anything, it's really hard to discuss this book, so I will have some spoilers at the end, hidden if you want to check them out.

When I started reading the book or 100 pages into to it, I was like: okay, I don't see the point of this book but MAYBE this is the second book of a trilogy and if that's true, I am fine with it, let's just enjoy the ride

Around page 250, 50 pages from the ending, I just lost any hopes this was going to be a good book at all.

Malorie's character is good, overall. What was not so good was the writing. It was so repetitive. I know it might have been to show how Malorie has been scarred by this world and to show how much she wants to protect the people she loves, but please, at least change the wording.
I got tired of reading: Oh, this makes me think of those people. Oh, I can't stop thinking about this. ohoh, I am thinking about this same thing, again, and again, and again.... Again, I think this was to show how she is obsessed with surviving (as she should, obviously) but I think it could have been done so much better.

I won't say anything at all about any other character to not spoil the first book, so read the spoilers if you want more information.

The ending. The ending was the most rushed thing I have ever read in my entire life.

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The first point was the one that ruined the book for me and also the actual ending, the actual last few pages. okay:

1 - Malorie sees a blind woman going mad at the beginning of the book at the School of the Blind

Guess what? She was not blind at all HAHAHA ............ really? You give the reader something new and interesting at the beginning of the bug only to be... nothing at the end.
(After this scene in the School of the Blind, they have to run away from that place and find a new place to live, 10 years have passed.)
And you ask: okay, how do we find out about that if you never see that lady again?
TUN TUN TUUUUN- Olympia, Malorie's daughter, is immune. She can open her eyes, look at the creatures and not go mad. Are you kidding me? Are you telling me that the first time she opened her eyes and saw a creature was at the School of the Blind, 10 years have passed since then, and she never told her mom or brother? Are you telling she made her mom be worried, obsessive, possessive, everything!!! for 10 years? She could have told them and that would improve 100% their lives. Maybe it would make the creatures less spooky because someone can see them? Maybe Malorie wouldn't be so worried about opening her eyes inside houses? Maybe Olympia would benefit from her mom knowing that she can see the creatures so she would leave her alone and not be always saying "CLOSE YOUR EYES. HIDE YOUR SKIN. CLOSE YOUR EYES". I am done. I just can't understand.

2- Malorie's parents and the train (and the ending)
Gary appears again in the train and pushes Malorie of the train only to be found by Malorie's daughter and that's it. They then go try to rescue Tom (Malorie's son) - which supposedly, created some glasses to see the creatures and not go mad. okay, cool.
And then in a few pages: When Tom is testing the glasses in front of a crowd, Malorie's dad finds her, by chance (because the book has to end), Malorie never gets mad with Olympia, we never hear about Gary until the very ending and then Malorie, blindfolded and with the help of her son, kills Gary which, and I quote: "He's sleeping against the outside wall". ????? really? what....
And then the last paragraph is about Malorie testing Tom's glasses. and guess what? The book ends without telling us what the creatures are OR at least how they look like?
Bare with me. I didn't mind not knowing what the creature looked like in the first book. I think it was more horrifying and I didn't need to know what they were. I am fine not knowing BUT... they can see them now, right? so... I feel like I need to know now.

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