Aurora [Paperback]

A book with an ending that could make you scream....................

Well as I thought Aurora picks up about 15 years in the future from where Zenith was set. Reading the end of Zenith I was
sure I was going to hate the jump to the future. But I really didn't. I have to say I found Lily a little annoying,
perhaps because I loved Mara so much I felt Lily was stealing her thunder a little bit. And I never eally understood Wing becoming a Wolfman, that kind of came from nowhere and made very little sense to me, but thats all for negatives, thats just
a couple of small things that bugged me a little.

So the Treenesters did not feature too much in this book. After Lily has runaway and Mara has of course gone tearing after her we hear nothing more about them and the others living in Candlewood, I think it would have been nice to, but the book really didn't suffer for it. I just always loved the characters of the Treenesters and di miss them a little, although, a lost Treenest does make a reappearance, but I won't add any more so as not to spoil this for anyone.

I did love that Lily took after her mother and I totally understand her wanting some adventure, just as Mara did.
Especially after spending 15 years having to spend 6 months underground at a time! That would make anyone want to escape and have an adventure. Throw in Lily's sudden knowledge about the true identity of her father, and well I'd have run for the ocean myself. I loved that Wing went with her, to protect her, as he had with Mara way back in the neverworld.

I was surprised to find out about the changes to Ilira, everything that had happened, and what Tuck had acheieved, but Tuck really was not a likeable character to me. Yes he had done great things, but not in the best way. I was angered that people had once again reverted to a time where having slaves was acceptable, and punnishing people in discusting ways was the norm.
Surely after everything people should have learnt better, but maybe its just in our nature.

I really enjoyed the story jumping from New Mungo, back to Ilira, and between the numorous goings on in both settings. It did get a little busy sometimes but I didn't find it hard to follow, I will say that I think somethings happened a little too quickly, and it could maybe have been a little more gradual with things happening so as to build more suspense or just tell the story in a little more detail. Aurora is the shortest of the 3 books, I trhink it could have been longer and then it may not have felt quite so rushed. Developements were not always explained as fuly as I would have liked and major things happened in just a couple of paragraphs or pages. This was a little frustrating.

I won't go into the plot anymore, but the ending........... Argh!!!!!!!
I felt for sure this time everything was going to be wrapped up, I mean not EVERYTHING, but most things. I do like to
wonder what has happened to these characters I have grown to love or hate, but realy, the ending was not what I was expecting at all. These people that had spent so long searching for each other, I wanted to know what happened when they met.
I want to know what plans they have for building a future, I want to know what happens with the war. Do they change the way some of these shorsighted people view the world, that money and power are all that matter? Will Mara return to Rowan and her sons? Will Gorbals and Pollock find out that what they thought was true for the last 15 years is not in fact true at all?
What will happen when Mara and Fox finally see each other?

I have far too many questions and no answers, really Julie, is this all we get!??!

Do not get me wrong, I loved this book, I loved the whole series and I am so glad I stumbled upon them.
But please, just one more installment, I'm sure I am not the only person who really really really wants to know what happened!!! I guess for now I'll have to make up my own ending, as far as I can tell this is the last one, but
a girl can dream right?

In the third - and final??? - instalment of Mara's tale, Julie Bertegna weaves together the threads of destinies hinted at in her previous two novels. Despite the blurb suggesting this is the final book in the series; the ending has left an opening for more. I hope the author does write more...this is a world with limitless potential.

I really liked this story, it didn't quite grip me the way the first did (Exodus), but it certainly kept me reading. Rather than the focus being on a new adventure of Mara's, we actually experience this unique world with her daughter, Lily.

Unbeknownst to Mara and Lily, Fox has managed to tell Mara's story to the whole world. To remote communities who did not know of the existence of the tower cities and the story of her survival and the rescue of the refugees in Exodus brings people hope.

Instead of concentrating on trying to create new cities in space, the Guardians of the tower cities decide to claim for their own few bits of land that have not been drowned. Not only will they not help the poor stranded on ships and boats in the ocean, they now want to take land away from the few survivors outside of the safe ocean towers.

Fox knows it is time to strike. For sixteen years he has worked to destabilise the elitist society...

Well, this book is about the coming together of plans and the collision of lives. Less romance and more revolution :)