Review of The Defiant by Lisa M Stasse

Review of Lisa M Stasse's The Defiant

Release Date: July 8th, 2014

Synopsis as found on GoodReads.com:

In this gripping conclusion to The Forsaken Trilogy, Alenna’s loyalties are put the ultimate test—and it’s one of life and death.

Alenna Shawcross and the others who escaped the wheel are working toward an all-out assault on the United Northern Alliance. The plan is to dismantle it from the inside—and Alenna is one of the few people who can access the organization’s inner sanctum. But when she returns to the home she has nearly forgotten, she encounters old friends and is swept into a secret plan that puts everything she loves in danger.

Knowing what is at stake for her and her friends, Alenna ventures into the heart of the treacherous UNA. She’s determined to bring them down, because freedom is the only choice. Or is it?

---------------------------------------------------------------------

I am both happy and sad to read the final book in the Forsaken series. I am happy that I got an Epilogue to find out what happened after the final battle, but sad that this book was not as great as the first two. There were quite a few moments in The Defiant where I thought, maybe if we stay on this track and work with this, it could be great. Sadly, a lot of it felt rushed and not properly descripted.

I loved how The Forsaken felt very similar to The Maze Runner, Hunger Games, or Lord of the Flies, but that same feeling wasn't present in this book. When I read a series, I just expect the whole series to work together as one. This book was the progression of the first two, but it definitely could not stand on its own.

It wasn't all bad, because I got to see where Alenna and her friends ended up. I know how the author wanted it to end and maybe she will write another series that gripped me like The Forsaken & The Uprising did.