Ashes (Seeds of America Trilogy Series #3)

I absolutly love the chains seires! I wish it didnt end with the third book :,(

This is it, the final book in the series. I didn’t know what to expect as book two in this series had me all over the place, hoping for the best but finding that just when I started to get comfortable, bam the unexpected occurred. Isabel finally finds her little sister Ruth and I felt relieved at last but the more that I read it was not the homecoming that I expected. Isabel has a motherly hold on Ruth even though after everything Ruth has experienced in life, she doesn’t need the tight bonds. Again, lots of life lessons run abound in this novel as Ruth does an unbearable simple mistake which cost the girls greatly and cause tension between them. Curzon and Isabel get into an argument over the war as Isabel refuses to tell him which side she prefers in the war and I really enjoyed their argument and the outcome that resulted in the end. The war and life has changed these characters over time, they have matured and they have become individuals with minds that rationalize and see beyond what’s in front of them. As the girls were in the field with the bombs blasting in the distance, I had been waiting for this moment and it seemed almost picturesque. Time stood still as the truth was spoken and the girls tried to erase the years and distance that had come between them. As the rest of the novel started to wind down, I was waiting for a colossal ending and I felt it was coming. Yet as I read the ending, I felt it was rushed and the last few pages felt out of touch with the rest of the novel. I had to reread it to make sure that I had not skipped something but nope, they were the same words so I guess it was not a great ending for me.

After a long wait, I finally got to read the final installment of this trilogy. I miss my journey with Isabel and Curzon already.

A lot of the characters are just lost and while the main characters bring them up, their fate is still a mystery. People also seemed to want the thrilling rescue of Ruth for this book but instead it's a lot of description of hard work as Isabel works to free herself and Ruth. Spoiler alert: the ending is very ambiguous and leaves just as much mystery to the story as the ending of forge had. This book felt like a footnote of the previous books because there weren't many major events