Today I’m joining the blog tour for The Hope. My review is written with thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me on the tour and to Orenda Books for my copy of the book.

Blurb:

The year is 2082. Climate collapse, famine and war have left the world in ruins. In the shadow of the Alpha-Omega regime – descendants of the super-rich architects of disaster – sixteen-year-old Boo Ashworth and her uncle risk everything to save what’s left of human knowledge, hiding the last surviving books in a secret library beneath the streets of Hobart.

But Boo has a secret of her own: an astonishing ability to memorise entire texts with perfect recall. When the library is discovered and destroyed, she’s forced to flee – armed with nothing but the stories she carries in her mind, and a growing understanding of her family’s true past.

Hunted and alone, and with the help of some unlikely allies, she must fight to save her loved ones – and bring hope to a broken world.

Spanning three generations before, during and after the fall, The Hope is the shattering conclusion to Paul E. Hardisty’s critically acclaimed climate-emergency trilogy – a devastating, visionary thriller that dares to imagine the possibility of redemption in the face of near-total collapse. In a dying world, it asks the most urgent question of all: what if there’s still time?

Review:

The Hope is the final book in The Forcing trilogy and it is absolutely worth the wait! It’s just as powerful as it’s predecessors and it gave me just as much to think about. The three installments all link up really seamlessly so I would definitely recommend reading in order.

Paul E Hardisty is a really detailed writer and I love the description throughout The Hope. As the novel is set in the future, it really helped me to picture what life was like for the characters and become really invested in their way of life and the stories they had to tell.

The Hope is narrated by Becky, who is the niece of Kweku, who we meet in the previous novels. This provided a brilliant way of connecting the novels and reminding me what had happened before, but I also loved Becky as a character in her own right. She is so caring and intelligent despite her young age, and her experiences made me feel really emotional. I felt completely invested in her story and really wanted to know how things would work out for her.

As we approach the end of the novel, the tension definitely increases and I was intrigued to see how not just the novel, but the trilogy would conclude. There were moments where I wasn’t sure what would happen to Becky or who she should trust, and this made me hold my breath as I was reading!

The Hope is available from Amazon.

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