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            Well, the last section of the novel was more exciting than the entire rest of the book and it was not terrible for me to read, unlike the rest of the book. A big theme that I had discovered within this book was deception and a lot of it. On page 469, it says, “We know humans betrayed their own kind and tried to blame us,” this statement alone was prominent and bold. As I have said in previous blog posts, there are a lot of relations within the book and our world and deception is all over in the novel, as well as in our society. Deception will always be around in books, movies, cartoons, people etc. – there is no escaping it.

            Additionally, I did not like there was no real ending, leaving my mind to wonder what was going to happen next and I like to know what is happening, or what did happen in the end. Even though the author gave a glimpse of what was going to happen next, it was only a glimpse. On page 510, it says, “Elders are looking at all the humans on the continent rather than eliminating the badness in one town and reclaiming the land.” Does this mean every single human or every single bad human on the continent? For ending a book, I am left with way more questions than answers like if the Elders were talking about every single human bad nor good, what about Meg, what would happen to Simon if Meg did happen to be gone forever, and who are the Elders really, as they call them. As much I hate not knowing, it does leave an endless amount of possibilities for what could happen and sometimes it is better to leave the mind wide open. Also, most people including me, like to know the final ending to anything, no matter what it is like a book, a song, a movie, because it makes us feel complete. Though, if you think about it, our lives are like that as well and we do not know our endings either.

            Overall, I could have been happy not reading this book at all and only because it was just not my type or style. To much randomness, to much back and forth, to many plots and a few other things. Not to say that this book would not be something another person would not enjoy, it is just something that I did not.