Intelligent, thought provoking speculative fiction. And a fitting finale to a great series - The Pale. This third book, Ruined Land had me on tenterhooks until the very end. As the pages to read got smaller, I couldn't believe that Rhoden would be able to tie everything and everyone off neatly. I shouldn't have doubted. In her succinct and subtle style, the action never stopped, the plot twisted, turned and looped, and the brutality of the world took a few of my favourites, and some of the others, but the conclusion was reached, leaving enough room for a little hope for the future.
As in the first two books, it took me a while to process how I felt about what happened. This is more than a dystopian story, more than a story of survival and relationships, politics and populations. There are pokes at social mores and bureaucracies, traps for ethical dilemmas, personal and community accountabilities. And the platform for it all is Broad Plain - the Ruined Land - biting back after the years of disuse and abuse and putting all the inhabitants on notice that their presence is not necessarily tolerated. We would do well to consider many of the words in here sound advice.
A great read.
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