World After ~ Susan Ee (Penryn & the End of Days #2)
★★☆☆☆
“She wasn’t made to be alone.”“I guess none of us are.”
I've had the sudden realization that this series is the girl-version of The Maze Runner by James Dashner. It's "fast-paced" aka rushed to the extreme and lacks appropriate characterization and tension. It's probably very fun for a younger reader but for someone who needs a bit more quality to really enjoy myself unironically, it tends to feel like I'm reading the abridged version of a much longer, better paced book.
This sequel had all the issues from the first book and even had the initiative to add some issues that didn't exist before. The unnecessary and obnoxiously sexist military guys (not to mention the borderline sociopathic and strangely opportunistic Dee-Dum, who seem to actually enjoy the apocalypse) serve the same plot convenience purposes as last time and the plot revolves once more around Paige's sudden disappearance. This time it held no tension whatsoever, often skipping entire plot lines without giving them any resolution of any kind. On the flip side, we had entire sections that were just reruns from the first book with little "behind the scenes" stuff that also went unresolved. Honestly it felt like the exact same plot but without the charming interactions between Penryn and Raffe that saved the first book. This book seriously suffered from middle book syndrome.
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