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The Norm by Ramona Finn

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Brief synopsis (no spoilers)
Lib continues her quest to take down the AI (named Conie), and block AI's plans to take the Norm off the planet. She and the rest of the Clan experience some heavy losses. Lib pulls together one last big plan, but it will involve all of the surviving Clans working together, and that's no easy task.

Category
YA Fiction, Dystopian

Why I chose this book
Next in series

My personal opinion (the review)
The story itself was excellent- great way to wrap up all of the loose ends and close the series. Well done! But one of the things I liked most about the first two books was that they gave me a clean world to live in for a while. Romance was holding hands, kissing, and thinking wistful thoughts. Goodbye innocence. That was so disappointing. I do not recommend this book.

Warnings
Language: None
Violence: Some, but mild
"Adult" situations: Yes, 2 scenes that used mild language, but were quite graphic
Death: Yes, mostly minor character(s)

Movie rating equivalent
R, for sexuality

Protagonist description
Lib is laser focused on her goal, which sometimes alienates her from the others

Point of view of story
First, focused on Lib

Book length
Medium-short

Story flow
Smooth and well-connected

Grammar and spelling issues
Yes, abundant, throughout the book. Some of them were very distracting- it took a while to figure out what some misspellings really meant

Character connection (no spoilers)
I kind of want to know a bit more about Bird's Clan

For series:
Independent or integral (stand-alone or back story dependent)
Integral

Series review as a whole
Very good- until the last one (The Norm). The first 2 were clean, fun, quick reads. Skip the last one. But since that's going to cause a cliffhanger in the previous book, either just read the first book and stop, or just skip the entire series.

If you only have time for one, read: (which one)
Start at the beginning: Glitch

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