Review: Finally - dystopian that isn't depressing!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2014
This book had exactly what I look for in dystopian fiction - hope. I don't want to read about the world ending with two people crouching in a cave fighting over the last chicken bone on earth. Christenson depicts some characters as having an evil side and life is far from problem-free. But as the title indicates, there is hope. I don't know if the author did it intentionally, but I thought it was kind of cool to compare the ending of the Biblical book of Exodus to the ending of this one. I won't give a spoiler but it is a bit symbolic. I also appreciate the fact that while I am left wanting more and am definitely purchasing the sequal, this doesn't end on a cliffhanger where I feel like I've been tricked into half of a book. Based on the Amazon scale, I gotta give it 4 1/2 stars - I really liked it.