Even with Ilsa's handy dandy refreshers ( So You Read ASHES a Year Ago & So You Read SHADOWS a Year Ago), I still felt like there was more about this world than I was remembering. Having been a year since I read Shadows and a year before that that I'd read Ashes, I'd forgotten quite a bit. Monsters and I got off to a bit of a rocky start. Bick delivers a riveting, blockbuster finish, returning readers to a brutal, post-apocalyptic world where no one is safe and hope is in short supply.Ī world where, from these ashes, the monsters may rise.

With this final volume of The Ashes Trilogy, Ilsa J. Now, with no hope of rescue-on the brink of starvation in a winter that just won't quit-she discovers a new and horrifying truth. But then the end of the world happened, and Alex took the first step down a treacherous road of betrayal and terror and death. She headed into the wilderness as a good-bye, to leave everything behind. When her parents died, Alex thought things couldn't get much worse-until the doctors found the monster in her head. Reverent Yeager also figures that Lena was directing Chris to children that would hopefully have her brother among them.Source: received from publisher via Edelweiss Tyler was killed and Peter badly wounded.Ĭhris, Lena and Nathan are promptly sent to the torture chamber in Rule as Lena works out that Nathan was working for Jess against Rule and tells the council.

They were ambushed by the Milita, Peter later finding out that Lang and Weller are working for the Milita and staged the attack on purpose. His group had split up and he was left with young teen Tyler and two ex-army veterans Lang and Weller. He was captured when he was on an outing to fetch supplies. Peter has been captured by the head of the Milita- Finn, who is rounding up young people and Chuckies to do tests on them.

He is planning to soon leave Jed and Grace to find Alex as he presumes Ellie is dead. We find out that Tom is still alive and is staying with an elderly couple named Grace and Jed that picked him up when they saw how injured he was. Alex notices how the Chuckies have become much more advanced they hunt in packs, have learnt how to use guns and have started to breed. She realises this because she see's what can only be an identicle twin to Chris- Simon Yeager who has turned into a Chuckie. Although the Chuckies do not kill her, they take her with them as a captive for spare food. There she puts two and two together and realises that Rule is feeding it's grandchildren that have turned into Chuckies with people they have banned from the village. We are in the heads of Alex, Tom, Chris, Lena and Peter.įollowing on straight from Ashes, Alex fights the Changed/ Chuckies in the hunting groung, also known as The Zone. Shadows is the second book in The Ashes Trilogy. This book, unlike Ashesis written in multiple narratives.

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