Review: wish Magnus would have gotten a better send off
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 7, 2013
Somewhere between the 3.5 and 4* mark...So I have been a huge fan of this Offspring series and I pretty sad at its conclusion. It seems like so much more could become of this group, but I know it had to end.That being said, I was a bit disappointed by Magnus's story. I know it was the final story with the final character, but it just seemed fairly rushed and abrupt. After waking from his coma, now infused with the Darkness, he goes to Arizona to learn to control himself. He basically gives up Jessie with no fight and then there is no real insight into his deal with the Darkness. He is now drumming in a band and meets Erika at a bar. She is a hybrid as well and is looking for a killer, but ends up in a hotel with Magnus...not too much chemistry if I dare say. These two end up with "bad guys" and finally start to connect. By time they come together it seems like it is over and it is fairly anti-climatic as well.I was hoping for maybe an epic battle...a return of all the characters...a true Offspring reunion and triumph, but that didn't happen. Instead as the final book it just seemed to end with "ok, Darkness gone, we will be live another day." Oh well, I am glad the previous Offspring books were so good, I just wish Magnus would have got a better send off!