Promises Stronger Than Darkness

Paperback, 368 pages

Published April 9, 2024 by Tor Teen.

ISBN:
978-1-250-31751-3
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4 stars (4 reviews)

Promises Stronger Than Darkness marks the final installment of the international bestselling author Charlie Jane Anders's absolutely heart-stopping YA series, Unstoppable.

They're the galaxy's most wanted—and our only hope.**

When Elza became a space princess, she thought she'd be spending her time at the palace, wearing gorgeous couture and soaking up everything there is to know—but instead, she's on the run, with everyone hunting for her and her friends.

Rachael followed her best friend Tina on the adventure of a lifetime—but now Tina's gone, and Rachael's the only one keeping her friends together, as they go on a desperate quest to save everyone from an ancient curse.

Rachael, Elza and their friends have found one clue, one shining mysterious chance to stop the end of the world. And that takes them back to the second-to-last place they'd want to be: enlisting the aid of Captain Thaoh Argentian, the woman …

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reviewed Promises Stronger Than Darkness by Charlie Jane Anders (Unstoppable, #3)

Promises Stronger Than Darkness

4 stars

This is the final book in Charlie Jane Anders' Unstoppable trilogy. There's heists, swamp planets, space battles, trauma, processing, and so many feelings. It's got a satisfying payoff, expected-but-still-awful escalated stakes from previous books, and a lot of character growth packed into an action-filled book. I have read a bunch of her previous novels and I think these are my favorite.

To get back at what I mentioned earlier about violence, I think this book ends up with a more nuanced view than I was expecting. (Also, a surprising [quantity, not existence given the subject matter] of trauma for a YA book). This book says "It’s easy to convince yourself that you’re hurting people for the ‘greater good’—and that can mean anything you want it to mean" and also says "Killing is the clumsiest, cruelest solution to any problem". There's definitely trolley problems and Stanislav Petrov-esque issues that the characters …

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This was an ARC from NetGalley. 

This was a thrilling end to the story of Tina, Rachael, Eliza and their friends.

As with the other books in this trilogy, a major focus was on these characters working through their doubts, grief and trauma with the help of their friends. 

One theme very much came to the forefront in this book: how to deal with having killed someone, even in self defence. I remember reading a review of the first book in the trilogy that mentioned this, which pointed out how rare it is that fiction deals realistically with the trauma of having killed someone. In Promises Stronger Than Darkness, this is not only a theme, but an active topic of discussion among the characters. At one point, one of the characters says, “It’s difficult to grieve when a friend dies. But it’s even harder to grieve for an enemy you …

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