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I wasn’t a big fan of Uglies but found family stories are one of my favourite things on the planet so I couldn’t resist reading Zeroes and I’m glad I did. Did I buy Swarm and Nexus purely because Thibault and Ethan are both my sons and I needed to make sure they ended up okay? Possibly (Ethan calla Thibault his buddy near the beginning of this and it shattered my heart I’m a big fan of Thibault having buddies). But the rest of the cast and story were enough to keep me hooked.

Trying not to be spoily, the ending is probably the most controversial part about this book. It both somehow manages to tie everything up and leave everything way to open. It almost gave my the sense that Westerfeld had originally planned to write a fourth book but there wasn’t quite enough space in the narrative to necessitate a fourth. In the last hundred pages or so, a lot of massive character altering events happen and then we don’t really get to see the effect of these changes and decisions which was one of the things I previously liked the most about the trilogy and the characters ability to adapt and change based on the choices they made in a way that felt real. I felt kind of robbed by the lack of payoff but that may just be because of how much I love the characters and world and am sad to see them go (except Nate book 1 Nate was mildly annoying, Nexus Nate makes me want to punch him every 2 seconds)