Set Me Free is the fourth and final book in
the Tomorrow Girls series, and begins right where book three, With the
Enemy, ended. This series is about four young girls, Louisa, Evelyn,
Maddie, and Rosie, who were sent to a boarding school to keep them safe during
a war between the United States and the Alliance, which happened after natural
disasters destroyed part of the United States. However the girls soon learned
that the school was secretly run by the Alliance and successfully escaped,
joining up with three boys from the nearby boys' school. After traveling many
miles and enduring many difficulties, including rescuing Maddie after she was
kidnapped by Alliance agents and taken away to be brainwashed, the kids have
finally made it back to their home city of Chicago.
Each book has been narrated by a different girl, and so for the last book, the
narrator is Maddie. I liked the ending of the story because Maddie is probably the character who changed
the most from the start of the series. At the beginning, she was rather timid
and not as strong as the other girls. However, she has become stronger and
braver, especially after learning that her absent mother, who she thought had a
support job in the army, is actually the leader of the Resistance, which is the
military organization that fights to defeat the Alliance. Now, Maddie and her
friends must find her mother and the Resistance to give them an important
encoded message, but finding them in war-torn Chicago won't be easy.
Set Me Free is, overall, a pretty good
conclusion to the Tomorrow Girls series, it doesn't end with a cliffhanger and
the storylines for all the main characters are resolved. I was disappointed by
a couple of things, however - we never find out what happened to some of the
minor characters, nor is the exact reason for the war ever explained, in fact
it's never explained what exactly the Alliance is or where they came from. I
just wish there had been a bit more background information, because I'm still
left wondering why there was even a war in the first place.
I absolutely loved reading this series, it was so addicting. I read
these books a while ago and it had been a while since I enjoyed a book that
much. I loved the characters, I loved how each book changed POV's between the
main characters. I never wanted it to end.
Jaiswarry Sundaram
4 Cergas
28th May 2014
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