I still didn’t feel like I truly understood what happened during The Switch but maybe that is just me. His point of view added an extra dimension to the story and whilst I was unsure about him at first, I grew to really liking him-he might be one of the privileged but he fights really hard to do what is right. I liked his friendship with Bea and I was glad that the love triangle I thought was going to happen didn’t because I really liked that Ronan and Bea were just good friends. There was a new character introduced in this book, Ronan who was the Pod minister’s son who I really liked-he was quite a contrast to Quinn-he adds a different perspective to the story, someone who thought he was fighting evil but realises that the Resistance is actually fighting for something good. Quinn is maybe the more forgettable character in the book-I liked him but not as much as the other characters. She didn’t seem to be as dependent on Quinn in this book which I liked-she became one of my favourite characters. The characters felt better developed in this book than they were in the last book-Bea in particular I loved in this book-you could really tell that her experiences from the last book had changed her and she became this amazing, determined girl who could stand up for herself and was unapologetic about who she was and what she believed. In a world in which the human race is adapting to survive with little air, the stakes are high. Meanwhile the former Pod minister’s son, Ronan, is beginning to have his doubts about the regime but as a member of the elite force he is sent out of the Pod to hunt down the Grove’s survivors. The welcome they receive at Sequoia is not what they expect, and soon they are facing a situation that seems as threatening as that of the Pod inhibitants.

Quinn, Bea and Alina separately must embark on a perilous journey across the planet’s dead landscape in search of the rumoured resistance base Sequoia. The Grove has been destroyed but so has the pod minister. Resistance to the pod leadership has come apart. When it ended, I have to admit I was sad it was over-not because they were loose ends that needed to be tied up because there weren’t but just because I had become attached to these characters over the course of two books and I just didn’t want the story to end. It was action packed and paced so much better than the first novel-Breathe only really got exciting in the last two parts but Resist kept me hooked all the way through. I liked the first one enough to try this one and I’m glad I did because Resist exceeded Breathe in every possible way.

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