Badseedgirl
3/18/2021
It has been eight years since I read the second book in this series. That is a pretty big time gap and I was curious if my thoughts on the series has changed any in that time. I don't think this book is as good as the other two, but, for me anyway, I was happy about how this series ends. I know there is a fourth book in the series, but after peeking at the reviews from my Goodreads friends, I am choosing to not read the fourth book and pretending the series ended right here.
For most of this book I really wondered what I was thinking when I gave it such high praise 8 years ago. I found Miranda to be quite childish, more so then her 17 years and surviving a year after a global disaster should have whooped some of that out of her. But then I started thinking about The Diary of Anne Frank. That same claustrophobic feelings were present in both stories. And both Anne and Miranda were reaching young adulthood under these claustrophobic environments. That aspect felt very real to me. During the last year, we have all gotten a taste of that feeling of confinement. I was actually reminded of this today. Our management team has made the decision to allow people to start working at the office in a limited capacity again. I was talking with one of my staff members, and I reminded her that once she had her "office" work done, she could go home and finish her work day out at home. She paused a moment and said, Don't get me wrong, I love working from home, but would it be ok if I stayed in the office until around 2pm. She admitted that she enjoyed her time away from home, even if it was only spending a few hours in an empty office once every other week.
The last third of the book finds Miranda truly having to leave childhood behind and start making adult decisions. It was at that point when I realized why I had originally enjoyed this series so much.