Never Fade (Bonus Content)-The Darkest Minds, Book 2 (A Darkest Minds Novel)

Never Fade was a riveting second installment to The Darkest Minds Series. It was mesmerizing, passionate and even darker than the first. I loved every twisted moment and I can’t wait to start the final book! Ruby has fully immersed herself into the Children’s League and has become team leader. She trains, she goes on missions, and she uses her powers to interrogate her enemies. But she refuses to get close to anyone, because she is only biding her time until she can escape. Her upcoming mission is the perfect opportunity and also gives her the ability to go after another mission. A secret mission. Information about the disease that killed and altered American’s children is on a flashdrive in the pocket of Liam’s jacket. Sweet, beautiful Liam who was her light, her happiness and her heart. But Liam won’t even know who she is. She could be just another face in the crowd that is forgotten by the next day. What entails is a page turning, emotionally gripping read that you won’t be able to put down! Ruby becomes a force to be reckoned with in Never Fade. She is becoming skilled at her powers and is trained to handle almost any situation. But she is still in a great deal of pain from the horrors she went through while being locked in Thurmond. Additionally, her heart still aches for Liam. After everything that has happened, she is not able to close a door and separate herself from anything in her past. And throwing herself into the latest mission to track down Liam can only lead to heartache, or can it? I love Liam. He is raw, he is pained, and he is but a shell of the boy who I fell for in The Darkest Minds. His inability to remember or understand why he feels the way he feels broke my heart again and again. I ached for the adorable banter and stolen touches that Ruby and Liam previously shared. I only wanted them back together again. But life isn’t always fair and this time around their time together is even more horrifying than when they had Betty or were with the Skip Kid. Through all of the tribulations, I found myself caring for two new characters. Vida and Jude are Ruby’s teammates, and whether she likes it or not, she can’t ever seem to distance herself from either of them. The three of their personalities together ensured laughable moments that put a smile on my face. Jude is a caring, friendly boy who has the ability to be dumb and brave in the same instant. He is the little brother that you can’t ever get rid of but love none the less. Then we have Vida who is Jude’s polar opposite. Vida is a purple-haired eccentric girl that is cold, loud and not afraid to speak her mind. I hated her in the beginning her but personality wore me down over time and her snarky comments started to make me laugh. Boo as an insult can be hilarious when the whole world is crashing down around you. The suspense, heartache and horrors I faced while reading Never Fade was worth every single moment of panic, hurt and dread. Why you ask? Because this was a beautifully crafted story with characters who now mean the world to me. Never Fade was a enthralling second installment and I hope the final book is just as brilliant!

This book was so much better the first one! we left off in The Darkest Minds as Ruby (rather rudely, I might add) wiped all traces of herself from Liam's memory, a move that I imagine left many of us distraught. The Darkest Minds was full of action, and Never Fade has even more thrilling, suspenseful escapades and missions. We are introduced to three new characters who are Children's League agents- Vida, an acerbic, honest and hilarious Blue, Nico, a small, fragile Green, and Jude, a sweet, naive bubbly Yellow. Vida particularly was such a brilliant addition to Ruby's family, and every scene she was in had me cheering for her. Kate, the CL agent who originally tried to recruit Ruby is also an intriguing and brave character who is further developed in this sequel. RUBY undergoes tremendous character development through the novel-she is no longer the frightened girl ashamed of her Orange abilities. She is willing and ready to use them unflinchingly and brutally against anyone who threatens those she loves. I'll address a couple worries I had before I began this book, just in case anyone else happens to be taking them into consideration before they purchase this title. Mild spoilers ahead! Ill try to keep things as vague as possible though! Clancy Gray DOES take an important role in the latter half of this book. Ruby and Liam and Chubs DO meet again. Suzume (Zu) is NOT present in this book at all, though she is mentioned. The book DOES end in a bit of a cliffhanger. There is NO love triangle in this book (in case you're thinking/cheering for Ruby and Clancy to be a thing) that grammar was atrocious sorry lol yikes The reason I gave this book 4/5 vs. 5/5 is because I, for one, have a lot of questions about the state of the US and IAAN. Is IAAN still an active disease? Or has the outbreak ended, and now the population of children is decimated, with only the Psi kids and young children who constantly are getting checkups left? At the very end of the book, Clancy reveals something that he's done that I don't really understand his reasoning for at all, and I was left a bit flabbergasted. A few plot twists occurred in this book that I struggled to comprehend the logic and reasoning for. I felt that insufficient background and explanation was provided for things like what Clancy did (sorry about being so confusing and vague-I don't wish to ruin the book for anyone) The way that Ruby put a curtain over herself in all of Liam's memories was just so disrespectful and unacceptable, and I don't think her actions were sufficiently addressed and resolved with Liam. ALSO- the romance isn't very active in this book. Ruby loves Liam still, and is thinking about him constantly, but there is so much action and intense scenes that there isn't much time to think about romance. Bracken makes this work just fine though. If I sound like a supercritical person who didn't ready enjoy this book that couldn't be farther from the truth. I absolutely adored this book and I love the series. It is one of the best books I've read this month. READ THIS BOOK! I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS TO FANS OF: the Shatter Me series by Tahareh Mafi, False Memory by Dank Kronos, Unwind by Someone Who's Name I Forgot, and The Young Elites by Marie Lucas.

I LOVED The Darkest Minds. After I read the first chapter of Never Fade (it was included at the end of my copy of The Darkest Minds), I was a little worried that it would focus more on EPIC LOVE OMG and less on all the awesome people and the interesting plot from the first book. Well. That was SO not the case. I had trouble getting immersed in the book at first, which was partly because I was preoccupied with university stuff and partly because the book starts out in a slightly different setting, and there are some new characters we’re not yet familiar with. I wasn’t thrilled about this, but after a couple of chapters I was IN. The book took a different direction than I thought it would in a VERY good way. I don’t want to say too much, but a lot of the elements that made the first book so good make a comeback. The new characters add to the story, but we also get to see some familiar faces. At around page 100 things start to really pick up. Like The Darkest Minds, this book has nonstop action and there’s never a chance to get bored. Ruby’s world is filled with horrifying people who do terrible things, and the author never shies away from that, but there are also random moments of kindness that almost made me tear up (if you’ve read it: STAY SAFE OMG). There was just as much, if not more, focus on friendship and survival and coping in this book than the last and I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT. I really like Ruby, even though she makes questionable choices sometimes. As a matter of fact, I like Alexandra Bracken’s characters BECAUSE they make questionable choices and they’re flawed. It just makes them that much more interesting. Plus: the snark. The snark also helps. Up until the very end, Never Fade just DELIVERS. Remember all those great second books in trilogies? Me either, but this book avoids second book syndrome like I avoid team sports (so… very well, in case you don’t know me). This review is a bit on the short side, but that’s not because I don’t have anything to say about the book. I took a lot of notes while reading (by notes I mean capslock-ridden, stream of consciousness ramblings that include a lot of emotional outbursts at pivotal points in the story), but everything I want to freak out about would give something important away, so I’ll just be content with staring at you creepily while trying to hypnotize you to read the book, so I can talk to someone about it.

Thankfully it was a really fast delivery so that means i can start the book right after i finished the first one !!!

Nice price

Ilk kitabini turkcesini okumustum fakat orginal dilinde okumak icin Never Fade i aldim, su ana kadar okudugum kadariyla surukleyici ve sade bir dil kullaniliyor. Tavsiye ederim. Ozellikle 2. dili ingilizce olanlar icin cok sade anlatimiyla ingilizcenizi tazelemeye faydasi da oluyor.

RECENSIONE PUBBLICATA ANCHE SUL BLOG LAMENTEAFFILATA La storia inizia sei mesi dopo la conclusione del primo volume quindi troviamo una Ruby un po' diversa e soprattutto molti personaggi nuovi. Ho fatto un po' fatica a orientarmi tra tutti i nomi e le varie operazioni che dovevano portare a termine. In realtà ho avuto qualche difficoltà nella lettura di questo libro. Prima di tutto, non capivo bene di chi ci si potesse fidare e di chi invece bisognasse diffidare (alcuni erano molto ovvi ma diversi personaggi erano ambigui). Ruby sembra molto più forte, a livello di poteri ma questo porta a un'evoluzione seria del personaggio, che ho apprezzato molto. Allo stesso tempo ci sono situazioni che si ripetono non proprio allo stesso modo, rispetto al primo volume ma comunque in modo simile. Questo non mi ha attratto molto ma ho capito che ci fosse una necessità, in certi casi. Ci sono stati molti momenti in cui non ho concordato con le scelte dei personaggi però ci può stare. Ho trovato difficile seguire la storia anche per la lingua. E' incredibile: pensavo che, essendo un libro per adolescenti, non fosse così tosto, sotto questo punto di vista ma le scene d'azione, di scontro sono le più difficili da leggere e da seguire per me che non sono madrelingua. Mi ha fatta rendere conto dei miei limiti come lettrice bilingue. Nonostante tutte le mie difficoltà e l'angoscia che gli eventi narrati mi hanno procurato, l'ho trovato un buon libro. Si poteva migliorare in certi punti ma mi ha convinta a continuare anche se il prossimo si aggira sulle 600 pagine e ciò mi lascia totalmente sconvolta perchè, se sarà anche minimamente simili a questo nella struttura della storia, significherà un problema nuovo ad ogni capitolo. E non sono sicura di essere pronta.