Books 34-40 of 2015: Remnants series conclusion

Remnants series by K. A. Applegate

Scale: (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)
Mother, May I?: Okay
No Place Like Home: Okay
Lost and Found: Okay
Dream Storm: Hated
Aftermath: Disliked
Survival: Okay
Begin Again: Hated

One of the covers, the best of the bunch:


I really should have stopped reading this series early on. The first book was outstanding, the next couple were pretty good, but it quickly went downhill from there and never recovered.

Talking about anything in the later books would spoil the earlier ones, so I'm going to put everything plot-ish behind a cut: ( Here there be spoilers )

The author said she was unhappy she had taken the story in this direction (unhappy with this last half of the series), and I 100% agree with her. It makes zero sense, and it ruined whatever joy I had left for the series.

My earlier complaints about the series continued on through these books: I question if they were edited at all (typos on Every Single Page). Each book was was short! At my usual reading pace, each one took about an hour and a half to read. Insane. It felt like each book was a chapter, not a stand-alone book.

I can strongly recommend the first book of the series, but I'd just as strongly suggest stopping after it.

Reading next: The Dungeoneers -- I fell in love with it from the very first sentence!