
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
In this final book of The Taking series, Kyra is taken (again, but this time by humans!) and Tyler and her father have to track her down with a little help from the survivors of the Blackwater Ranch attack. Kyra manages to escape, all on her own, and she and her friends reunite just in time to solve the mystery of why they were all taken and returned by aliens in the first place.
Full disclosure: I had read the first book, The Taking, but not the second book, The Replaced, so I knew the basic premise, but had missed some of the storyline—particularly what happened at Blackwater Ranch and the love triangle with Simon and Tyler. The love triangle was unnecessary and badly executed. No reader could possibly believe that Simon could have ever taken Tyler’s place in Kyra’s heart. Ever. The ending was bizarre and contrived. It made me sorry that I’d ever started the series in the first place. The author could have ended the series in a number of ways, any which would have been a better explanation than the one she went with. It left me with more questions than answers, and not in a good way. I enjoyed the first book, but it should have ended there.
Recommended for gr. 7-12 in libraries where the first two books are popular; optional purchase otherwise.
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