The City of Mirrors

I was shaken from the beginning because I was not expecting Alicia to have a baby. The baby itself was beautiful, but how she was conceived hurt my heart and made me feel raw emotions I was unexpected to feel. I found this book is the only one in the trilogy that I cried over. I recall times when my heart actually raced due to being worried for the characters and the return of the virals. The more I read the more heartbreak I experienced. Pim had my heart from her introduction into the scene. Her presence happened just as I thought things were going to get better. I feel this is the theme of the book for me. Just when I thought things were looking up somewhere, there was heartbreak, destruction, or something else going wrong elsewhere. There were several times in this book, and to be honest this series, where I was annoyed with the writing style and repetitive words, but I wanted to see this story through. I cannot say I was a fan when the point of view changed to a first-person narrative. Learning about Tim Fanning made it easier to feel empathy towards him, but not enough to like him. The book seemed to drag out near the end, and the ending, though interesting, did not sit well with me. The trilogy as a whole was good and I am glad to have finished it.

Favorite quote: “All things fell into the past but one; and what that was, was love”.