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HERE THERE ARE MONSTERS by Amelinda Berube: Part Three Skye
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This is the spot to post your thoughts on Part 3: Skye, pages 227 - End. Feel free to spoil away. If you haven't read this far yet, please turn away or risk being spoilered.
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i did NOT like this book. at the end, when Deirdre shows back up and it's all a game, i was so pissed. (this is why i don't like Brave too.) i think both of these girls needs to be introduced to a good old fashioned ass whooping. but then, Deirdre kinda made me so sad. but i was too mad. the author did a good job in making an impact on me and i would read more from her. i liked her writing and everything just NOT this story.
The end was unexpected. The princess did not need saving. The champion needed to be her own savior. And the consequences of our choices and sacrifices for the greater good, even with the best of intentions... need to be lived with. Skye is the one at the end of her childhood blood on her hands facing the harsh reality of adulthood. Her childhood is in tatters while the Queen lives eternally in her kingdom, never to leave it again. Faeries were only mentioned once at the beginning but the depths of the castle remind me of the fae realms eternally in spring or summer. What are human lives and stakes to a fae?
Just finished & I loved it. I didn't trust Deirdre at all, so I figured there was going to be some kind of setup, but not on that level. I wish there would have been more info about what exactly went on, which kept it from being a 5⭐ for me, but I still felt like I had enough information to enjoy it. I liked that overall it was about doing things because you want to (selfishly), and the consequences that has for yourself and other people. I wish it would have dug more into it, but again, it worked well enough.
I really thought Kevin was going to end up being the love interest since William was just kind of blah, so I guess I don't understand the point of having a love interest at all for this one. It's YA, though, so that's a standard reaction for me.
I have the author's other book & definitely want to read it soon.
I really loved this book ! The end is amazing, very unusual !
I wasn't surprised the Deidre had set it up. What a horrible thing to do to her parents. I am happy Skye choose to go home. But it would have been nice if she had done it for the parents. But she is a brat soo... Really, everyone in the book was unlikable in a way. I would have liked more of them to get killed ( but I am terrible like that).
There's no real redemption for the characters in the end, which is distressing. So are Skye, Kevin, and Deidre all sociopaths, and the parents are a bit self-absorbed and perhaps narcissistic? Was Kevin in love with William? I too, felt the influence of fairy folklore on the mythology Berube created.
