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Book of Flora, Road to Nowhere #3 - Meg Elison (2019)

Flora was the best character to me in second book, so this didn't have the problems with the protagonist I had in the second book. The frame story has returned, with a bit forty years in the future, but with the vast majority taking place immediately after the end of the second book. This one doesn't have a plot. It's literally "let's travel all over the United States in search of a community that can accept us for who we are." That was fine by me. Sexuality continues to reign supreme.

A lot certainly happens in a relatively short time in books 2 and 3. There's an antagonist, but it's irrelevant really. The characterizations are somewhat messy and inconsistent. There are also questionable decisions made as well. This is the probably least dark of three, unless of course some of the specific offensive material is especially offensive to you.

Overall, there wasn't really anything too much either way for me to strongly like or dislike. The ending was well, whatever, so if that's what Elison wanted to do, why not. It doesn't make much sense, but eh, I guess mitigating the bleakness was necessary. I have to say, this series really lived up to its title. It's unfortunate the two following books weren't anywhere as enjoyable as the first for me and it almost makes me to lower the score of the first, but I probably won't. I could've done without reading these, but it's just as well that I did.

Rating: 3/5