Format: Paperback, 400 pages
Release Date: March 6, 2023
Publisher: Entangled: Teen
Source: Publisher
Genre: Young Adult / Dystopian
My name is Eve Hamilton.
Everyone in Compound Eleven thinks I was killed. But they’re dead wrong…
I
spent my entire life in Compound Eleven as a fighter. Surviving in an
underground city filled with violence, oppression, and tyranny. We were
told the world above was scorched, an immediate death sentence. I should
have died never knowing the truth. Instead, when I fought Wren—a boy
from the top floor, a Preme—I fell for him. And eventually learned that
my reality was an insidious lie.
Escaping Compound Eleven nearly
killed me and Wren. Now we’re aboveground, where the world is anything
but a toxic, burning wasteland. It’s green and lush, filled with
sunshine, fresh water…and hope. All of which tastes bitter when I see
what it’s cost me. Because something in Wren has changed. He’s
broken—along with whatever it was between us.
Now the tides of
violence in Compound Eleven are rising, threatening to spill out and
shatter this peaceful place with brutality, corruption, and death.
But do I stop them…or join them?
Ending Eleven, by author Jerri Chisholm, is the 3rd and final installment in the authors Eleven Trilogy. Four generations ago, Earth was rendered uninhabitable, the sun too hot, the land too barren. Those who survived were forced underground, where civilization divided into compounds. In Compound Eleven, only the cruel survive. Fighting is entertainment, violence is a way of life, and hierarchy is everything. For the Primes who inhabit the fifth floor, life is comfortable. For the Lower and High Means and the Denominators who live on the floors below, it is anything but.
This story picks up right where Unraveling Eleven ended with Eve Hamilton and an injured Wren Edelman fleeing the Eleven compound to the world above that they discovered in the previous installment. What was supposed to be a massive hot zone, has since made a comeback, as nature tends to do when it is left alone, and now humans are able to live and thrive thanks to those like Michael. Her only error was leaving her mother behind. A mother who has never been the same since the Preme found out that she had an illegal son named Jack.
But with her mother left behind, and Wren hanging on by a thread, Eve has to make some choices. One of those choices is to return to Eleven and see if she can make her mother leave with her. One things turns to another and suddenly Eve discovers that there is a rebellion growing within Eleven. A rebellion that includes friends of her she also left behind hoping to return for them. Unfortunately for Eve, she also senses something is wrong with the group that she discovered, and now Wren seems to be a totally different person thanks to people who hate Michael.
Besides the fact that others are treating her with scorn because of her closeness with Michael, Eve is still hopeful that she was find her brother outside and save her mother. She also finds that she's willing to help the rebellion arm themselves which means going against Michael's determination to keep all weapons locked up while also searching the abandoned city which is now a mass graveyard. If you are a reader who loved the Hunger Games, or The 100, or even Divergent, you should read this series.
Eve is a character who has been through so much. From being taught by her father to fight when she was a young girl, to becoming a circuit fighter, to learning that everything she was told about the outside is a lie, to becoming the face of a rebellion, she never forgets that there are those who tried to take everything from her family, and did take her brother away. Eve struggled to reconcile the part of her that longs for a peaceful and quiet life. Eve's conflict with Wren was, in my opinion, unnecessary, but perhaps it is a sign of her growth that she doesn't totally fall to pieces when everything things to be changing.
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