Talk:The Hunted/@comment-26436879-20150710102400

This is the worst book in The Enemy series.

This books get two starts for one person; Ella.

So, we spend the first 200+ pages with Ella, which I really enjoyed. She's a characters who quickly went from being looked after and surrounded by walls in a city to a lonely girl in the countryside, who was NOT safe. I liked the mystery of Scarface, that's all good. Then the whole Malik thing was cool, as well as the flashback.

Now we're with Ed. This just killed the book. Ed has become extra moody, tired, annoying, and short tempered. Ed takes Kyle, who is just reckless and a liability, Macca, who is a bit annoying, Brooke, who I like (when she's nice), Ebenezer, who I don't really have an opinion on, Trinity, who I like, and Lewis, who is nice to have around. We're on the road and Macca happily dies, and then we end up with Amelia and her crusties. This ruined the whole series for me. The whole POINT was that the adults are all gone. And what happens? Adults come. I know they're old, and can't exactly protect Ed and the kids, but still. So we spend time with them, don't learn anything too new, and Macca dies. This brings out a nice side of Brooke, which I like. We leave the old folks, which is good. Now we meet the Slough crew, and I kind of like this lot, since a lot of teenagers are like this before the disease. They should have left Kyle with this bunch, because he's an animal like them. So on, we meet more Roamers, and we meet Sophie again, which is cool. Some old characters are nice in the penultimate book.

And then the races. I'm sorry for the French, but the whole races part is utter bullshit. Just bullshit. I'm extremely disappointed with Higson for this. I liked the Golden Twins, but silly though. Then the different camps, pointless. Horrible. I liked the Henry thing, even though he made me uncomfortable and just put me off the book.

So, good things: -Ella -Reuniting -Malik & Flashback -Brooke

Bad things: -Leaving Trinity behind -Leaving good characters like Small Sam, Ollie, The Kid, etc behind. -The Old Folks. -Ascot. -Bringing bad characters like Kyle along on the search. -It felt like they forgot about Ella several times. So much pointless scenes.

<span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,'TimesNewRoman',serif;font-size:13.8000001907349px;line-height:19.3199996948242px;">To summarise: <span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia,'TimesNewRoman',serif;font-size:13.8000001907349px;line-height:19.3199996948242px;">The Hunted is a book with mostly bad, annoying characters, dreadfully bad twist in the plot of the SERIES, stupid scenes like Ascot, good character development from Ella and Brooke, a good plot, which was executed okay in the end.