The End By Charlie Higson - Starting May 9th 2016

[Abi]

Shadowman, realizing that Saint George's army is headed toward the center of London, has raced ahead to warn the kids of the impending disaster. He knows that he has to make them understand--somehow--that they are going to have to work together. This means that Nicola and her kids at the Houses of Parliament, David and his kids at Buckingham Palace, Matt at St. Paul's, General Jordan Hordern and his troops at the Tower of London, the squatters in St. James Park, and all the kids at the Natural History Museum must unite. But will they do it in time? The book culminates in a massive pitched battle in Hyde Park. How will it play out? Who will be the winners and who the losers? One thing is certain: this series will not go out with a whimper!

[Maddie]

Hey guys, sorry about this but I'm not sure when I'll be getting to this book or even if I will. This is just a generic message for all of my buddy reads this month, but I really don't have as much time to read as I thought :/ I'll try my best, and I'll let you know when I'm up to them, but I doubt I'll be getting to the ones closer to the end of the month at all :/

[Maddie]

Alrighty I'll be starting this one probably tomorrow :D So excited!

[Maddie]

This one's now my current read :D

[Maddie]

3% (view spoiler)[Weird that it started without St George for a change, and it started from Ryan's gang. I reckon it'll be the dogs before the horde of grown-ups. (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

Achilleus: "Without power we're back in the olden days, back in the Stone Age. That's why they call it 'power', because electricity is power."

[Maddie]

12%

Jester (view spoiler)[Ugh I don't like him. I remember him from the first book, and he wasn't too bad, but not he's loyal to David and I don't like him. (hide spoiler)]

Shadowman (view spoiler)[I'd be pretty freaked out too if I was Jester! I'd forgotten that they were besties and that Jester had left him behind. Fair enough the way he's treating Jester now, with Jester acting like it was nothing. (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

Alrighty! :D

35% (view spoiler)[Finally get a glimpse of St. George. I was weirded out when he referred to Greg and St. George as two different people before he corrected himself. I was about to lose my mind haha. (hide spoiler)]

David (view spoiler)[Ugh he's always annoying!! Hope he stays out of it! (hide spoiler)]

Ella (view spoiler)[I really hope we see her and Sam united again. That was the whole point of the last book. (hide spoiler)]

Ryan (view spoiler)[Awesome that he's a main part of this book :) (hide spoiler)]

Jordan (view spoiler)[Is it bad of me not to have much liking for him either? When his troops walked up I almost got him confused for David :/ (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

I'm planning on finishing this tomorrow. My boyfriend, who's read the series, says that the wrap-up at the end isn't the best, but I really hope I like it more than he did.

[Brooke]

I ordered my copy, says it won't be here til the 23rd thou :( but my last book came earlier than it said, so hopefully it'll come earlier :(

[Maddie]

Ah alright. Well when you get it I'll totally discuss with you :D

[Maddie]

It's not bad so far.

[Brooke]

I badly want to read your spoilers!!! But i will wait!!

[Maddie]

Haha they're not that indepth because the book hasn't done much yet, but I feel like it will soon for sure :) I'll try and update a bit more tomorrow too because I'll be sprinting more, but I also read about 100 pages on the bus, and I have about 250 pages until I finish.

[Maddie]

44%
Matt (view spoiler)[Oh my gosh he's been bitten!! I did not expect that! (hide spoiler)]

62%
Paul (view spoiler)[Oh my gosh he'd the leader of them all??? I did not expect that either! (hide spoiler)]

Akkie (view spoiler)[Ugh him leaving the fighting. I mean, good on him for being stubborn and all, but still! (hide spoiler)]

Jordan (view spoiler)[Stuff him for taking Bright Eyes! He's ruined Paddy! (hide spoiler)]

Paddy (view spoiler)[He's just like everyone else now. Mean and hard and arrogant. (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

76%
Horde (view spoiler)[Oh woah there seems to be quite a lot of them! And the woman being equal with St George is quite a step. At least they're slowly dying. Can't see this ending well tbh. (hide spoiler)]

Akkie (view spoiler)[Naw he cried :( And he's gay. Didn't see that coming! (hide spoiler)]

Paddy (view spoiler)[Well that was so stupid of him to go out there and do that! Served him right! Wish he'd lived though so he could feel bad. Thinking he was the hero when he couldn't even kill that sicko! Such a wuss. Sad about Whitney though. (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

This book isn't as good as the last one, I don't find.

[Maddie]

78% (view spoiler)[Yay Green Man, Fishface and Skinner are somehow jamming the frequency! (hide spoiler)]

David (view spoiler)[So he wants them to surrender to him so that, later on, he can just join them and turn on the sickos? What?? Maybe I'm just understanding that wrong. (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

85% done
Matt (view spoiler)[Jeez he's just crazy. He seriously annoys me! Spouting all that random shit. (hide spoiler)]

David (view spoiler)[Okay he's seriously mental. Hopefully we find out what was going through his head when he killed the girl he liked! (hide spoiler)]

Nicola (view spoiler)[I liked her, even though she wasn't a main character. She then she just died and there was nothing she could do about it. Good thing she was honest though. (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

93% done
Pod (view spoiler)[Woah okay he's dead. (hide spoiler)]

Franny (view spoiler)[Yeah I'd be bloody pissed too if other kids came into my home and started trashing the place and ruining the food! So not far! They should go ruin some sickos instead! (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

Finished!
Matt (view spoiler)[So he didn't die from being bitten... The voice just left his head. Alright. Weird how he had that protection shield around him though. (hide spoiler)]

Paul (view spoiler)[Can't remember if he lived or died :p (hide spoiler)]

Ella and Sam (view spoiler)[The whole series was almost basically about them. And that ending wasn't really that good at all. The wrap-up chapter was pretty crap. (hide spoiler)]

Glad to be finished this series finally :D

[Maddie]

Review: Not as good as the last one but better than the others, I think. I didn't like this one as much as I thought I would. Not much extra stuff happened, but we did find out a little bit about some minor characters. Glad to have this series finished finally. Been reading it for about a year now on and off. I was really pleased that (view spoiler)[it was Ed that killed St. George and that he figured out it was Greg. (hide spoiler)] I was surprised though that (view spoiler)[like no one died in the final battle. No majors anyway. So happy that St George didn't kill Ed. (hide spoiler)] The ending was a big let-down, with (view spoiler)[Sam and Ella seeing each other and that's about it. I was hoping for some more emotions and everyone else going over to see Ed and stuff. (hide spoiler)] Oh well. I can forget about all of these complex characters and sub-plots now. Glad I read this series.

[Maddie]

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