The old world is gone forever. And this is our last chance to create a new one...
Sixteen years ago, the old world collapsed, and I was born into a time of chaos. I've been one of the lucky ones, living safely behind the thick walls of the Perimeter. But now an evil force is threatening to tear down everything we've built here. Our existence is hanging in the balance.
Cold, calculating James Gray and his army are trying to destroy the peaceful community we've worked so hard to create. We can't run from it. We must confront it. This will be the final battle, the final chance to save our world - and ourselves.
Standing on top of one of the lookout posts, I take a deep breath and brace myself for what is to come. I wish I'd told Luc how much I love him, because now it might be too late.
Will we both make it out of this alive? And will our world be changed for the better, or fractured forever?
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A sweeping wind blew in from the east, sharp with the tang of snow- CHAPTER ONE, RILEY
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(@SecondSkyBooks, 22 August 2023, e-galley, 408 pages, ARC from the publisher via @NetGalley)
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I loved Perimeter, the cracking conclusion to an excellent YA dystopian trilogy. This book concludes events featured in the previous two books, namely who killed Riley's sister who died in the first book and the conclusion to Riley and her group's conflict with James Grey and his crazy followers from the second book. Perimeter rounds things off nicely without exactly tying a yellow ribbon around it. The end of the world and the way life has been since features a lot more in this book. This book felt more dystopian than the other two. Like the other books, the chapters move between different characters, so you gradually encounter the storyline. I loved this book.
5/5
Click here for my review of the 1st book, Outside
Click here for my review of the 2nd book, The Clearing