Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Publisher: Roaring Book Press
Source: Publisher
Genre: Young Adult, Dystopian
In the fast-paced, high-stakes conclusion to Caragh M. O'Brien's Vault of Dreamers trilogy, Rosie travels to a derelict theme park to shut down dream mining once and for all.Driven by fear when Dean Berg kidnaps her family, Rosie Sinclair strikes out across the country to rescue them. When an elusive trail leads her to Grisly Valley, the contaminated ruin of a horror theme park, Rosie has to consider that Berg may once again be manipulating her every move to make her fearful, priming her for a final, lethal dream mining procedure. As Rosie struggles to outmaneuver Berg, she unearths the ultimate vault of dreamers and the hint of a consciousness more powerful and dangerous than any she's imagined before. Faced with unspeakable suffering and otherworldly beauty, Rosie must discover how to trust her mind, her friends, and reality itself.
Propulsive and deeply speculative, The Keep of Ages concludes the Vault of Dreamers trilogy with stirring possibilities for what it means to be alive.
The Keep of Ages is the third and final installment in author Carah M. O'Brien's The Vault of Dreamers trilogy. As the story picks up, Rosie Sinclair returns home for the first time in 6 months to find her family missing. Rosie knows that her fight against Dean Berg won't truly end until she can find a way to stop him once and for all. Even if that means traveling to the ends of the world. Rosie wanted to expose Berg's manipulation of dreamers but was caught and spent time stuck in what's been called a vault of dreamers. For months, she was kept asleep while having her dreams mined.
Rosie's dreams are unusually vivid which is like cat nip to someone like Dean Berg who is looking for a way to save himself from his own health issues. Rosie's journey will take her to a former amusement park in California. An amusement park which coincidentally has at its center piece The Keep of Ages where Rosie discovers an even more stunning surprise. Rosie must find a way to save her family, especially her sister Dubbs. Dubbs leaves a cleverly written message for Rosie to find that leads her to a woman in California. A woman who may hold the answers to Rosie saving her family and bring down Dean Berg. But, Berg won't be easily defeated or stopped, and he's got a few surprises up his sleeves.
The most curious characters in this book are Lavinia Jacobs, who once worked at the Forge School before Berg came along and turned it into something else entirely, and Dubbs. I loved Dubbs. She's just as adorable as you can imagine, and clearly clever as well. We get appearances by Burnham Fisk as well as Linus Pitts who we found out had a camera lens inserted in his left eye. Unfortunately for Linus, his road to redemption takes a bit longer while trying to find a way to regain Rosie's trust in him. Rosie meets a curious character in this book called ARSELF, and that's all I can say about this character without spoiling a huge part of the story.
In closing, The Keep of Ages is a fairly quick paced story with plenty of twists to keep the reader satisfied. The most interesting part of the story for me was the Grisly theme park. Here you get plenty of interesting twists and a character who defies explanation. Rosie has grown up as a character, and in the end, she may not be the badass that people were expecting, but to survive everything that she has been put through, who's going to complain at how she ends up?
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