Audiobook: The Revival

The Revival is written by ChrisWeitz and narrated by Jose Julian, Spencer Locke, Christine Lakin, Aaron Landon, and Adetokumboh M'Cormack, and is the conclusion to the Young World trilogy.

The world ended. A new one began. But who gets to choose what it looks like?

After two violent years spent scavenging for food and territory while struggling to survive, an easy life in Sickness-free England has a certain appeal to Donna. Only one thing—one person—could make her want to return to the ruined chaos of New York City. And she thought he was dead.

Jefferson dreamed of starting over—uniting all the warring teens and creating a Utopia. Instead, the discovery of the Cure fuels a massive power struggle in the city, and it turns out, the whole world wants a piece of the pie.

With some of their own tribe in trouble, a deranged madman on the loose, and an unspeakable threat looming large, Donna and Jefferson must save not only themselves but what’s left of their world in this conclusion to The Young World trilogy. Because what good is living if everything you care about is gone?

The Breakdown:
1.  Weitz brings everyone back to New York for the conclusion of this trilogy.  It is an action packed book from the saving the Washington Square tribe and gaining control on the "football and biscuit." I was a great book to listen too, with different narrators to help really capture the different characters perspective which the book is being told from.  I love that Weitz writing makes each characters voice unique and the different narrators really bring that to life.

2.  Weitz adds in the perspective of Evan in this book. Who from previous books was quite the antagonist, but in this book getting to hear it from his on voice made me realize how much a psychopath he really is. Her is definitely a character I love to hate.  He is like on the level of Joffery from A Song of  Ice and Fire of hating.

3. Surprisingly, Weitz creates this strange  love square between Donna-Jefferson-Rab-and Kath that seems to work.  I liked the awkwardness between them, especially Jefferson and Rab. It made them feel like real people trying to understand others despite the crazy situation.

4. I thought the end to this book was very fitting for the series. It was not a perfect everything solved and tied with a neat bow ending. Without giving too much away, it left it at the Tribes of New York learning to work with the rest of the world and finding a place for themselves.  It just made sense with the story.

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