(END OF SPOILER.) This is where Once lost me, slightly. And… (SPOILER FOR EVE coming up:) she is reunited with Caleb, who introduces her to the secret plans of rebellion. She is fiercely loyal to her friends from the wilderness she doesn’t let the new circumstances she finds herself in the middle of brainwash or overwhelm her. Eve find herself suddenly forced into a different role than she’d ever imagined, and she gets to see the country from a different view–though it doesn’t necessarily change her original opinion. Nearly all of Once takes place in the City of Sand (a rebuilt Las Vegas), the capital of The New America. It’s a great sequel that improves on a number of things: characters and world building, definitely. Anna Carey doesn’t shy away from the dark moments, though, some of which really impacted me, but yet the book isn’t a complete downer. It wasn’t perfect–it meandered at times and was less original than Eve, but it was fast-paced, had plenty of twists and turns, and contained the adorable romance between Eve and Caleb. Naw, that couldn’t have happened–could it?! We’ve still got a third book, people! It was an ending that left me speculating and in disbelief. The ending of Once, Book #2 in Anna Carey’s dystopian/post-apocalyptic trilogy–also unfair. The ending of Eve, Book #1, was just unfair. Format: Hardcover, 354 pages, Harper, HarperCollinsPublishers, 2012. Once by Anna Carey, Book #2 in the Eve Trilogy.
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