Beware the Harvesters: Book Review

Congratulations to my grandmom on publishing her third book! (I love the cover for this one. You don't even realize how powerful it is until after you've read it.) As always, I'm going to be 100% honest about what I think. Here we go.

Beware the Harvesters is the third in a saga of sci-fi / dystopian novellas that tells the continuing story of twins Michael and Lucy and their friends as they do everything in their power to survive the apocalypse and take down The Leader, whose identity has finally been revealed. Meanwhile on Solanda a struggle for political power threatens to become catastrophic when Princess Bird is sent on a mission to find the goddess Lilth, leaving her home planet at the mercy of the evil Prince Falini.

Some things I liked about this book are as follows: This book was intense, but in a good way. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. What truly amazes me about this particular installment is that there are so many subplots going on, but they are all easy to keep up with and they are all vital components of the main plot. For example, we follow the individual paths of Lucy, Michael, Patty, and Bird, all while learning different things about The Leader and how far his power truly reaches. I'm blown away that it all fit together so well! A nice plus was that the editing was on point. My review of Saving Solanda was kind of negative due to the many grammatical errors strewn throughout, but Beware the Harvesters was much better maintained and flowed more smoothly. Though there were still some errors, they were not nearly as distracting. (Also, my three cousins had roles in this book. Nice!)

Some things I didn't prefer about this book: I still don't like language. I think that's kind of a given at this point, though. Really, I think the only major quarrel I had with this book was the religious elements within. What this book suggests goes completely against my personal religious beliefs and none of it sat well with me. I'll just leave it at that.

Overall, I gave this book a 3/5 for a fantastic storyline, interesting characters, and its good pacing. Despite the elements I disliked, my hope is to be able to move past all that so I can finish off the saga with the final book next summer, which I'm very much looking forward to. Congrats again, grandmom!