Review: Into the Still Blue by Veronica Rossi

Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10

This review contains spoilers for Under the Never Sky and Through the Ever Night

Quick Snippet (no spoilers): The race to the Still Blue is on as the Aether storms become more and more frequent (and more and more powerful). Perry bands up with Aria and a few others to storm the Komodo, the snake-liked mobile buildings housing Hess and Sable, to rescue Cinder and hopefully find out more about the Still Blue. 

Recommendation: I would recommend this to fans of the Divergent and Across the Universe trilogies, as well as fans of young adult science fiction, romance, and any similar-sounding books. 

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Review: What a great way to end a trilogy! What I hate is when an author feels the need to end a book/series with a mass murder of half the main characters, so I'm immensely glad Rossi ignored those urges and only killed off a couple. 

Well, ignoring all of the random soldiers/opposers whom Perry, Roar, and Aria were against shooting, but had absolutely no trouble causing serious brain damage to.

Seriously, Veronica Rossi! It is not okay to kill everyone in your way. If Aria were killed by a stray bullet from a soldier or someone trying to get around her, it would be seen as a terrible crime in which the main characters would seek revenge for in the rest of the book. 

It just really bothered me how many people were killed just because they were in the way. I hate war.

Anyway, the journey to the Komodo and the action there added some good substance to the book. I'm glad the gang didn't get away Scott-free, like they almost did, when they visited the Komodo and took Cinder. That would have been way too simple. 

Wow, how convenient it is that Aria's father shows up! I'm still not sure how Loran knew she was his daughter, but he seems like a likeable guy, at least. I kind of picture him as Sharlto Copley,




from Maleficent. I don't know why. He just seems like such a sweet guy, minus the fact that he's Sable's right-hand-man, and Aria maybe could have cut him some slack. He tries to reach out to her multiple times! 

Cinder's death: Ouch. I really liked Cinder. What an awful situation he had to be in! I can't even imagine what I would do. To know that you are the key for all of your loved ones to live a happy, semi-danger-free life, and that there's a huge chance you won't even get to spend it with them., would be just terrible. He's a brave little guy, though, and without him they would have probably all burnt up out in the real world from the Aether. 

Speaking of the Aether, that whole situation was never really solved. Sure, all the main characters are saved from it by living in the Still Blue, but what about the rest of the world? Will life, from then on, have to spend its time in a little bubble of happiness, while everything else is burnt to smithereens? It's an interesting concept, to say the least. 

The end of the book felt a little bit corny.

Roar sat beside her. "So you want to just wait for them here?"

"Sure." She bumped his shoulder with her own and smiled. "It's a good place to wait. This is home." 

Even so, I'm glad everything worked out. I got a little bit too attached to Aria, Perry, and Roar throughout the trilogy, and it's nice to imagine they'll live a happy little life inside the Still Blue. What I would have really liked to see is an Epilogue from like a year later in which Perry and Aria get married and Aria walks down the aisle with Loran. And maybe Talon is the ring-bearer, with Flea at his side wagging his tail happily. Is that too much to ask for?

Overall, I'm glad I read this trilogy. It is by far not the best trilogy I have ever read, but I enjoyed it while it lasted, and I think that you will, too. 

~Alli