Title: The Union
Series: The Madion War Trilogy #3
Author: S. Usher Evans
Publisher: Sun's Golden Ray Publishing
Publication Date: February 14, 2017
Source: Author
The Madion War Trilogy has come to an end. The third book, The Union, is out in the world...and I have read it.
It is a little hard to discuss a third book in a series without giving any sort of spoiler for the books that proceed it, so consider yourselves warned.
In The Union, we are still dealing with the world as we knew it from the last two books. Two major countries are at war and our love birds are from opposing sides. In this book they are currently working together to try to bring down the King of one country and to reunite the warring factions.
And just like before...it isn't working out very well.
And the love birds are finding themselves stuck in the middle of it. Either they can't find any time to be with each other or someone is trying to exploit their relationship.
But before I get to the relationship and my feelings towards that with this book, I should probably discuss Theo. See, Theo had been my favorite character for the majority of the series. I thought she was strong willed and knew how to get what she wanted. Then the Theo in The Union happened. And she is not the Theo we knew. She is weak. She is whiny. And she is kind of annoying.
I understand that some of this is because she has some what lost who she is due to things that have happened in the story line, but some of it was because of a boy. Her insecurity in her relationship was really just...ugh. We had a strong willed female crumbling at the idea that her relationship is doomed from them never getting to see one another. It wasn't always because of that, but when it was...I really didn't feel like it felt like the Theo I had known.
Then our Princeling. He did show some growth, and in a more positive way. He wasn't as arrogant (he was still a little arrogant) as he had originally been and he had started to grow a pair of balls. So that was nice.
Too bad Princeling and Theo together in The Union more or less just annoyed me (mostly Theo). But really, there were points when they were together where I just had enough of them wanting each other. There is more in this thought, but I can't really get into it without giving some major spoilers away.
Other things happened in the story. One of the characters really made me think of another character from the Hunger Games and that connection I made, made it very difficult for me to imagine the character as who she should be and not who she isn't. I wonder if I am the only one who kind of saw this? Can you guess who I am talking about and who I thought they were?
All in all though, I enjoyed the series. I mean, I devoured the first two books, and really liked them. There was just something about this final book. It just didn't reach that same level as the other books did (especially the The Island).
My Rating
3 Stars
This review is based on an ARC provided to me by the author. All thoughts and opinions are mine and mine alone.
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