No Vain Loss
by M.C. Frank
Rating (1-5) 📘📘
Genre - Teen & Young Adult Dystopian, Science Fiction Romance
Format - E-book
*Amazon Blurb*
A soldier is summoned to the North Pole, days before the year changes, told to fix the great Clock for a celebration. He has no idea what to do.
A girl, hunted for the crime of being born, almost dies out on the ice. She is rescued by the last polar bear left alive.
A library waits for them both, a library built over a span of a hundred years, forgotten in the basement of an ice shack.
The world hasn't known hunger or sickness in hundreds of years. It has also forgotten love and beauty.
This is the One World.
The year is 2524.
Inspired by the short stories of Ray Bradbury, this futuristic young adult novel in three parts is set in a world where Christmas -among other things- is obsolete and a Clock is what keeps the fragile balance of peace.
Written in three parts, this is the breathtaking story of how two unlikely people change the world, and each other, one book at a time.
In No Vain Loss, the world is on the brink of the greatest war humanity has ever known. Lives will be lost. New truths will be revealed.
*My Review*
After really enjoying the first two books in this series, I was quite disappointed in this one. The fight scene (which was basically the entire book) seemed to drag out much longer than necessary. I appreciate the authors extreme descriptiveness, but the fight lasted way too long. Honestly, I think it could have been cut down down just 1/4 off the book, but then there wouldn't have really been a book. There was a lot of repetition and lots of conversations that happened between Felix and Astra simply by looking at each other.
The answer to everything seemed to come much too easily for Felix and Astra considering how hard they fought to understand what was really going on with the New World. The book seemed to be just a long drawn out battle and then....here's the answer and done.
