Introduction

“Endings and beginnings are inseparable, like the moment before dawn and the moment after.”

The 100: Homecoming is the third installment of Kass Morgan’s The 100 series. Weeks after first landing on earth, the 100 (minus the handful of lives lost along the way) have finally settled down and started something great for themselves amidst unfamiliar surroundings. However, the life that they worked so hard for is swiftly upended by the crash landing of several new drop ships from space. The same adults that locked them away and labeled them criminals are now on earth and our beloved main characters have to come together once more to fight for the freedom they’ve found on earth, or risk going back to the same life they had on space.

My Thoughts

Okay, everyone…. this book was fire. I don’t know if it caught me at a bad time or something but I found myself tearing up reading the last few chapters. I’ve got a soft spot with younger people coming to terms with loss and grief – and this book is full of that. I have to admit, though, that I’m losing some steam with this series. I kind of want to pick up the last book at a later date but I also feel like I’ll never pick it up if I do that. Can you guys relate? My TBR is so long at this point that I’m afraid to put this last book on the back burner.

We’ve got kind earthborns, savage earthborns, kind colonists, evil colonists, and a whole bunch of power struggles going on in this one. Glass is on earth so we’re no longer getting the dual narrative on life on earth and life in space, which I’m grateful for because I really don’t want to know what happened in space after the drop ships left. In the grand scheme of things, not much actually happens in this book. It seems like it was written to be the last in the series, and it ends in a way that could’ve been accepted as the end, but the on,lay thing that’s really going on is the adults coming down to earth and telling our teenagers to step aside and let the adults take care of everything.

Wells…..is a menace to society. I love my boy, I really do, but he’s got to be one of the worst characters in this series. I’m kind of tired of Morgan trying to make him this character to root for directly after mentioning how he’s fucked up astronomically worse than anyone else that came down in the first ship.

I enjoyed this book just as much as the other two. The romances were….a little rushed but I understand that life is not guaranteed for these people and that they’re dealing with a lot of stuff they never dealt with – they’re looking for comfort in other people and I understand that. Not to mention, these kids are making decisions to run away with their respective romantic partners while they have so little knowledge of the terrain….Clarke literally got bit by a snake in the last book and nearly died, but everyone is just running around the forest all willy nilly.

In the last book, we were introduced to Sasha and now we get to meet her dad who is…slightly less cool but still a badass. We’re also introduced to Mount Weather which is a completely different setting from the Mount Weather of the TV series.

My favorite part of the book came with the burial of a beloved character. I was sad to see them go, and I will admit that I shed a tear on their behalf, but the burial scene gave what I believe to be the best quote to come out of this series (see the quote at the beginning).

Rating

Overall, I give the book four stars. There are major problems with this book (and the series in general) that I mostly chalk up to the story being told through the eyes on teenagers that are like literal newborns on this unfamiliar planet. There are plenty of bad reviews on this series based on the romance and general idiocy of the main characters, but I find these faults to be the most entertaining part of the books. Overall, though, I’m looking forward to finishing this series! One more book to go!