Lynnie
action/suspense, sci-fi, young adult
When a LaRoux Industries (LRI) security breach interrupts Gideon and Sofia’s separate attempts to infiltrate the LRI headquarters, they’re forced to work together to escape. Each of them has their own reason for wanting to take down LRI, and neither trusts the other. But working together might be the best chance they have to expose the secrets LRI is so desperate to hide.
Amy's Review
(audiobook)
What an awesome finale to the series! In fact, Their Fractured Light was my favorite book in the series. The best thing about it was the pacing and momentum and suspense. I never wanted to stop listening! (Yes, I “read” the audiobook as I had done with the first two novels in the series.) And, I was thinking about the characters when I wasn’t able to listen. The new characters, Sofia and Gideon, were even better than all the previous characters we’d met in earlier novels. And their interactions with the old characters were perfect. The setting changes were well drawn. And even the difficult science behind the fiction was mostly understandable and well-explained. As much as I often shake my head at novels where teenagers act more like kids than adults, I had to let the particularly frustrating scene go in this one and admit that it was probably realistic for Gideon and Sofia.
My only complaint is similar to my big complaint with book #2. Those annoying whispers! Once again, having to put the brakes on the story to experience things from the whispers’ point of view was inconvenient. Once again, most of their sections were unnecessary—just forced buffers between the two narrators’ sections—which added no value to the story and only disrupted the flow. Their voicing has been improved since book #2. But, even though they sounded more realistic, I really had a hard time understanding them at times—especially in the first half. So, I didn’t understand that we were hearing different factions of whispers at different times. I didn’t understand that they were often going back to the past. I can’t help but feel that I wouldn’t have minded so much if I had read the book instead of suffered through these sections of the audiobook. I really wish the authors didn’t feel the need to force these sections in between every single chapter. Oh well.
If you ignore all the whispers, it was a fantastic novel! I loved it!
Lynnie's Review
(partial audiobook)
A fun ending to the trilogy!
I listened to the first half of this book on a road trip & finished it with the physical book. While I enjoyed it, it felt long and occasionally dragged, particularly when the "whispers" broke into the action. Even though their little snippets were short, they never failed to stop the momentum. Even worse, they often whispered (ha! See what I did there?) about events from previous books which then made me stop to try and remember what they were talking about and why it mattered- it was entirely unnecessary.
That said, I really enjoyed the two new characters introduced in this novel-- Sofia & Gideon (well, Sofia was introduced in the 2nd book in the series, This Shattered World). In fact, I think they were the most interesting of all the main characters. This book is filled with action & moves at a great pace (when not interrupted by the whispers) which kept me interested throughout. I enjoyed how all 6 main characters came together, weaving their stories together in a way that didn't seem forced. A fun series from beginning to end.
Here is our review of the first book in the series, These Broken Stars.
And our review of the second book in the series, This Shattered World.
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