Found (After the Plague, #3)
Imogen Keeper
KILLING A PERSON changes you. Killing your little brother destroys you. I should know. His name was Carl. When he was a kid, he always ate the blue M&Ms first and then the green. He dreamed of going to go to the moon. I didn't hesitate. I didn’t even blink. BOOM down he went, and his eyes, so much like mine, locked on my face screaming a single soul-crushing question—how could you? EVEN AS I PULLED THE TRIGGER, I knew the answer. I did it to save a woman with the warmest heart I’ve ever known, quick with a smile, and fast with a laugh. Her eyes are battery acid green and her touch is the only thing keeping me sane in the Groundhog's Day of hell we're living. Carl was going to desecrate her, hurt Auden. It was him or them. These are the things I tell myself in the night, repeat the words, but it doesn’t matter. I see his face in every shadow, hear his voice in every crow's call. THE WORST PART, she doesn’t even know. She thinks the man who hurt her was a stranger, a random tweaker tossed our way by fate. She has no idea it was my brother I killed. She's too lost in her own pain and grief. I can't pile another burden onto her shoulders. SO NOW, as we team together with a new crew and make the impossible choice of where we’re going to live out our post-apocalyptic lives, all I can think of is what will she say when she knows the truth?
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The blurb definitely puts a lot of focus on Yorke's trauma response to thinking that he killed Carl, but I don't remember that being such a big focus in the book? It makes sense for our main characters to team up with people to survive, but I will say how quickly they begin to trust this new team felt unrealistically too quick. And while this brought interesting texture to the overall book, it does feel a little bit like the end of an era? I like seeing how Frankie begins to open up and feel her feelings for Yorke. The ending/ last couple chapters felt rushed. Overall I think I should have binged this entire series. The writing was basically at the same level and quality as previous books, but it is hard to keep track of which book has which events, and my stopping for over 2 months now will make it hard to jump back in. Many reviewers like the writing style and the high emotions throughout, and I agree I felt like it is very easy to be with the characters and in their heads. I do see how Frankie and Yorke need and fit well with each other in a really beautiful way. One reviewer points out how the "bad guys" at the White House is a somewhat weak and flimsy plot line, and having so much of Carl as a character off page lessened his overall impact on the story, including the final actions at the end of this book.
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