The Book Discussion *Spoiler alert*

[Nur]

I know this is extremely late.. i read the book yes!!!! But still confused. Even after Ruby went to her family, does it mean she and Liam were still together?

[Ana]

First doing this, I just finished all the books because I saw the movie premiere and I decided to start reading, and I love themmm.

I really didn’t like Liam an Ruby relationship at the end it wasn’t natural it was like if they have to be together, in the first book they were soooo cute and I really loved them but then cole appeared and I fell in love with him, I really thought he was perfect for Ruby because the relationship they built was unique, I really think his death was sooo unnecessary and it happened suddenly without any great explanation.

I was so sad when he died I really needed to stop reading because I felt so attached to him and to the relationship he could have had with Ruby, I think they would have been a great couple because I really felt he really liked her like something more than friends and I really was hoping he told her but that never happened because they fuc**** killed him

The end of the book was great but I was expecting more, maybe what have happened two years later or something like that.

Cole will always live in my heart.

[Nur]

Waitttt Ana Marquez.. is it okay if you answer my question T.T idk why I'm just so confused and desperate. Ish.

[Isabel]

This book and TDM and NF were amazing after seeing the movie trailer I decided to read them and I fell in love, my favourite character by far is Liam Chibs probably coming in second the ending was terrible I thought and was not forfiling at all I need another book. But I loved them anyway my favourite was the darkest minds.

[Isabel]

I meant Chubs not Chibs

[Michelle]

My aunt dragged me to the cinema to watch the movie with her and then I decided to read the books. I loved NF and ITA!!! (Still haven't read 'The Darkest Legacy'...)

Chereen, Sarah Anne, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who actually shipped Ruby and Cole! <3

As much as I liked Ruby and Liam together in the first book, I started disliking them in the second and I totally disliked them in the thrid one. And I think what made me dislike them was that I disliked Liam himself. Everything Liam did was disobay his brother on each and every step and Cole had to always save him from trouble. I didn't even feel Liam's brotherly love for Cole until he found out about his brother's death. Cole was the one who worried about Liam constantly (beside Ruby of course). Not to mention Cole understood Ruby better (and vice versa) because his power was almost as dangerous as hers even if he was red and she was orange. They had a connection and I'm sure it could've grown into something really beautiful if given the chance. And I also totally loved the way Cole teasingly called Ruby "Gem". <3

“All he kept saying was…” Vida swallowed. “He kept saying one thing—Stewart is dead.”
That sentence totally broke my heart because it was more than obvious it was Cole. To be honest I kind of wished it was Liam but if he had died there wouldn't have been a happy ending... For me between the two brothers the hero will always be Cole Stewart.

"...But when he looked at me, his dark eyes sunken back into his skull, it told me something else—that maybe what he really wanted, what he couldn’t admit out loud, was the exact same thing his mother had wished for all these years. Pride played a dangerous game in his heart, warring with exhaustion."
"...he looked
out the window again at the blackbirds diving and rolling around each other,
fluttering across the blue sky, and he smiled."
Those two parts are the only other parts that got me really emotional. Clancy Gray left me with complex emotions after every book. I know I should hate him for Cole's death, but I don't. Or at least not as much as I should. After everything that happened there was one person that Clancy cared for even if only the slightest bit and that someone was Nico. Because even if Clancy Gray was broken/damaged from all the horrors done to him, he wasn't born that way. That's why I'm glad Ruby changed his memories and gave him a chance for a different life. Life without the pain that had turned him into the monster he had become.

I hope they'll make "Never Fade" and "In the Afterlight" into movies too (hopefully with the same actors), because they just have to! :)

[Ellie]

Sarah Anne wrote: "OMG CHUBS AND VIDA
I'm shipping all day for them
They are super cute:)

AHHHHHHHH
Did anyone else not like Liam and Ruby?
I mean in the first book I really loved them together but then in the seco..."

I agree!!! They were cute but then they just got old. I feel like Cole and Ruby were just better for each other........

[kayleigh]

This comment is so late omg. but i am just a little mad at the ending and how open it was. like does ruby stay in virginia and Liam go to north carolina? i like to imagine they ended up in the same state

[Romi]

Anyone know what Liam made sure to get? I'm probably just really stupid, but can anyone help me!???

[Joee]

michelle wrote: "Can we have spoilers? If we can't then well... *SPOILER ALERT*
There might be grammar errors and such, because of my rush to just discuss EVERYTHING!!
I finished it yesterday... I CRIED!!!!!!!! I W..."

omg i got on here to make sure that ruby and liam stayed together, and now im so excited to read the third boooooooook

[Joee]

izzy wrote: "Do Liam and Ruby end up together? I NEED to know."

I GOT ON HERE TO ASK THAT TOOOOO

[Adelaide]

Kin wrote: "I finished yesterday, and I cannot pick up a serious book right now.

Reading this book has been so amazingly painful. Everything that happened was slow at first, and then it went fast. Like a gun...."

Ohmy gosh FINALLY someone I can agree with!!! I read this book around a year ago and I still can't get over the fact that Cole's gone. the whole book felt so real, I felt empty and deprived of Ruby's world. Cole's death shook me so badly, I cried when he died and cried a few more times after reading fanfictions where Cole got a happy ending. It's weird, I remember not being very attached to Cole but loving him all the same. I don't know why, but he was someone I could relate to. He was scared of what others would think of him if he showed them what he could really do, what he could accomplish. And holy crap, don't get me started on Clancy. He is probably on the top 10 ranking of the people I hate. It all felt so real, imagining that he was the one who set up Cole's death. They all felt. So. Real. A year later and I'm still holding on to Cole James Stewart. I'd also like to add that during his death scene when they saw his charred body, they were focused more on Liam. Don't get me wrong, I love him a lot. But they were so caught on Jude's death, and with Cole it was like, "Oh no- is Liam okay? We have to find Liam!" I felt like Ruby had only shown the smallest hint of grief, while Chubs was like, "Okay, we have to find Liam. Who cares about Cole?" That's what it felt like. They just brushed him aside.

[Adelaide]

Kin wrote: "I finished yesterday, and I cannot pick up a serious book right now.

Reading this book has been so amazingly painful. Everything that happened was slow at first, and then it went fast. Like a gun...."

I know this was posted like more than 10 years ish ago (I'm not doing the math lolll) BUT YES. MORE COLE MORE OF HIMMM. I WAS AND STILL SO HEARTBROKEN. I read TDM over two years ago and I'm rereading it right now- let's just say I'm cherishing the little things with Cole in Never Fade- soooo not prepared to go through the torture of In the Afterlight... Cole James Stewart is (imo) my top Book Boyfriend like how is it possible he died?! I was so upset and crying for weeks after. It just wasn't fair that he didn't make a large enough impact for the characters to mourn the loss of him. I'm sure Liam was, in his own private way, but they never reconciled. And everyone just brushed his death off because they had to focus on the camps and Liam. It was just terrible, and I guess I still don't see the point of killing him when all it did was torture our boy Liam (and us oh my stars 3)