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Thalia @ Pictures in the Words

I'm Thalia! I run a book blog called Pictures in the Words and I hope to be an editor for YA fiction. I'm a GoodReads refugee!

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Among the Free (Shadow Children Series #7)

Among the Free - Margaret Peterson Haddix Hmm. Where do I start? I didn’t find this book nearly as good as the others, and really only a step better than Among the Betrayed. We finally step back into Luke’s shoes, which feels almost alien after “being away” from him for so long. While I’m glad the series had an enjoyable ending, I felt like the way it all came about was a letdown. Haddix is a great writer, and if you read her other books you know that she can be really good at twists and details and other such things. However, it felt like in this particular book, she took the easy way out. It didn’t really make that much sense to me, and I felt like this book needed to be a lot longer, considering it was really “the end of an era”.Read more?http://thaliasbooks.tumblr.com/post/9732392004/among-the-free-review