✰ Bianca ✰
• 23 July / 20 August 2024
• Book #3 in the #BrightestStars Trilogy
• Military-coming-of-age-dramance
• Military-coming-of-age-dramance
★★★★
4 Stars
The heart-wrenching conclusion to the epic Brightest Stars
trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Anna Todd
Karina and Kael have been trying to make it work for as long
as they’ve been together. The two broken souls have a lot of individual healing
to do before they’ll be able to find happiness anywhere, never mind with each
other.
As the
world around them starts to crumble, Kael is consumed by the darkness of his
PTSD, and Karina struggles to overcome her anxiety, which is at an all time
high. Then someone from their past returns to invade their lives and wreak
havoc on the fragile peace they’ve created. If they’re going to have the future
they dream of, they’ll have to commit to fighting this battle together.
Back with Kael and Karina for a final time.
Book two ended with Elodie's husband suddenly showing up - on the day Karina found out that her brother is in love with Elodie. Whoops.
And of course Kael and Karina's happily ever after is still very far away too.
And of course Kael and Karina's happily ever after is still very far away too.
Well. I'm kinda glad that this series is over now.
I don't know. It was okay but nothing special.
I wanted a Karina and Kael love story with drama and excitement and all the things. And I got a little bit of that but I mostly got Elodie and Austin and Mendoza et cetera. Not that we hate them - but they should've gotten their own book.
I also almost stopped reading when Anna made Karina drive a car completely drunk. What is it with you Americans and your drunk driving??
That is NOT a thing that belongs in a book Anna! That's so dangerous. People will read this and think oh - Anna lets Karina do it, so it's totally okay if I get in the car drunk! Not okay!
Well. The book had a few interesting and moving and sad moments. But over half of it was not about Kael and Karina. So I didn't really care all that much.
I read it. But I pretty much only read the parts where people talked to each other - all the other stuff I raced through - if at all.
As I said before. One single book with a great love story and some drama and whatnot would've been great! But here we are - with three way too long books - with having waayy too long to wait between books and too much non-Kael and Karina fillers!
This could've been great but it just wasn't.
This could've been great but it just wasn't.
But don't get me wrong. It was okay. It was totally worth reading. But I just hoped for something better. Something just ... more!
Also? The title? What does that mean? What light does dust have? And why do we need it to have a light? Maybe it was mentioned in the book and I just overlooked it. So weird though!
↓ Links to the Book & Author ↓
Book #1
Book #2
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Anna Todd (writer/producer/influencer) is the New York Times best-selling author of the After Series and The Falling. Always an avid reader, Todd began writing stories on her phone through Wattpad with After becoming its most-read series with over two billion reads. The print edition of After was published in 2014. It has since been released in over thirty-five languages and has sold more than twelve million copies worldwide―becoming a #1 bestseller in several countries. She has served as a producer and screenwriter on the film adaptations of After and After We Collided. A native of Ohio, Anna and her family live in Los Angeles.
