Anna Juline. Well, this was the last book in the series. The last book. The last Tunnels book ever. Why couldn't any of the characters have happy endings? Why did everything go so horribly wrong for them? Why did practically everyone frickin' die? Why is the earth now hurtling away from the sun?
Why is everyone else going to die in the near future most likely? And why did the authors have to end the series on a cliffhanger!?!?!?! I was so upset by some of the character's deaths that I couldn't even cry. And so I am forced to give the book a three, instead of the five it probably deserves.
However, no matter what rating I give it, I will miss these characters - those few who remain alive - and I wish them the best in their journey away from the sun. And Will possibly turning into a Styx. Their problems never end, do they? Sophia Liu. The story took a really weird turn in this book. The plot wasn't that logical in that a good portion of it was based on Elliott's "I just know" sense. Chester's character was basically killed by the end of the previous book, though he didn't physically die until part-way through this book.
He turned into a mad killer. Also, the Styx. First, they were basically human, then it turned out that they were insects, and now they're aliens. Not to mention the fact that I'm rather unsure how it came to the fact that the Earth is actually a spaceship. It seems that the overall plot wasn't really planned out.
Lastly, the ending was a bit unsatisfying. You get to the end of the series, somehow all of the enemies have magically disappeared, and suddenly the main character is turning alien. Even if life can be unpredictable, I think applying that would be a bit of stretch in what had been a logical series to start with. I am a big fan of the Tunnels series, and I was so excited for this book that I ordered it from England.
I couldn't wait for the US version, not after the way Spiral ended. I was not expecting this at all. The second half had so many unexpected twists and turns. This is the quickest I have ever read a book. Once I got into the action, I couldn't quit reading. The ending kills me, especially the last line. Roderick Gordon has to be writing a seventh installment. It can't end like this. Overall, this is probably my favorite book. If Gordon ever writes another book, regardless of if it is in the Tunnels series, I a buying it day one.
Every book seems to get better than the last. Tunnels had major pacing problems, and Deeper dragged on. Freefall and Closer were better, and by the time Spiral was out, he had perfected his writing. Thank you for this great series. I finally got to read the last book, six years after I read the fifth book in the series. My mum bought me the first five books, but for some reason didnt get the last one, I actually thought that was all.
Well, after reading the ending, I can say, sometimes it is better to leave things hanging in the suspense. This final book was a big convoluted mess, to be perfectly honest. Very much out of theme and especialy the reveals and events of the last few chapters kinda uprooted the entirity of the story.
So if you are in a similar situation, where you have only read the first five books so far, you might seriously consider, whether you really want to read this one. Well, lets be real, you will read it anyway, if you got this far, its impossible not to, just dont be surprised, its not what you would expect. So to start, where did things go wrong with this book series as a whole?
So far I have already bashed the ending, but the fundamental problem arose long before the final book. In my opinion, there is one exact point that can didvide the book series in two - the time before the fall to the Inner World and the time after the fall into the Inner World , at the end of the third book Free Fall. Before this, the story was a great adventure with a clear dark, extremely immersive theme of the ominous expanse of the undeground world with its immense cave and tunnel systems, strange creatures, unhospitable environment, mysterious structures and objects and sinnister Styx roaming arround.
New Germania , pyramids, bushmen, tropical jungles, an inner sun somehow Also in the later three books, especially the last two, characters would just go on to travel back and forth from the Deeps or even the Inner World and the surface, like its no huge deal, further negating the storyline of the first three books. While shifting the focus away from the main characters towards this "save the World" type of plotline.
Ok, now to the actual events of Terminal. So, the first half of the book, is basically fine, not much substance, but nothing terrible. Too much filler, I suppose. And too much time dedicated to characters I didnt really care about. The first really weak point of the book is when Elliot, thanks to her Styx blood, activates this McGuffin piece of ancient mystery technology that takes them right back to London where they need to be.
I would have gladly read pages of Will and Elliot trying to get back through enginuity, cunning, courage and all that, but no, we are doing the McGuffin thing I guess it makes no sense to make it dramatic and interesting at this point, now that traveling deep underground and back is no longer a big deal.
So basically in his final moments, Chester is made into a huge a-hole, who kills two innocent soldiers in cold blood, on his ridiculous quest for revenge, then gets lamely shot in the back by that psycho Martha, because he said she stinks, or whatever, and is unceremoniously left on the ground like some sad sack of potatoes, we dont even come back to him. Well, when it comes to cynical protagonist deaths, George R. Martin is short on this one, lol. Then Elliot uses another McGuffin, conveniently found in the British Museum in London, to destroy the Armagi and sends all the Styx including herself to the Inner World, where they can die of the Dominion virus, except for Elliot as she is immune to it.
And btw, did I mention she and Will didnt even need to figure out anything to find and use those McGuffins, her Styx blood just "drew" her to it The Romance between Will and Elliot doesnt go anywhere, after like pages of build-up, Will doesnt even get to say anything to her, before she is gone. Makes no sense, I mean why would you build a spaceship, thats about Not to mention, thematically it doesnt fit into this series at all.
Now that Earth is heading out of the Solar System, I also guess, the vast majority of the 7 billion people on the surface are kinda screwed Really would have been better to just use the nukes. And finally, in the very last scene, Will is now apparently becoming Styx, maybe. What does that mean for him? Dont really know what to make of that. Seems a bit meaningless and cunfused to put that at the very end.
Yet another strange decision made by the authors. After reading this book I have more questions than at the beginning. And more impotantly, it left me more empty than at the beginning. Tho great example of the fact that high stakes doesnt equal high meaning or high emotions, this book was about saving the World, but I didnt care about the World, I cared about Will, Elliot and Chester.
And how did that end up? Chester got the most cynical death of a protagonist ever, and Will and Elliot were tossed appart, without any resolution to their relationship. What a shame, perhaps the worst ending of a great book series, I have ever read. Darius Vinesar. Here's what I'll say about one of my favorite YA series of all time.
When I first started reading their series, I thought Gordon and Williams had something truly special for their readers. Here was a series that didn't feature beautiful fantasy landscapes or creatures. There's no unicorns here, no vampires, no swords, no magic. As for the sci-fi elements, I found them to be minimal, making as much sense as they needed to for this secret, underground, Victorian world that Gordon and Williams had created.
That being said, I thought the first book in the series was great. Here was a dark, musty, damp, claustrophobic, and gritty world we were being given. The creatures scuttling about in the darkness are grotesque and blind, but also used as a food source. The society living here is an isolationist one, with inhabitants that are mean and brutal to outsiders.
Although it took a little bit for the elevator to rev up and take us down to the plot, Gordon and Williams ultimately succeeded in embarking readers on a quest that was going to be dark and gritty, where people are tortured and killed. Although there's so much more I can say about what the first book did great, what did it for me was the atmosphere.
I've seen people complain here that they don't like how claustrophobic the books are, but I think that's entirely the point of this series. It's meant to take place in a world that is ugly, that's filled with violence and the threat of it.
The darkness is ever present, and inside that darkness is an evil faction of people who are mysterious, creepy, and compelling in their motivations. The dynamic between the Styx and the colonists was something that was endlessly interesting, worthy of exploration.
Then came Deeper. My favorite in the series, hands down. Deeper expanded on the dark and gritty world of the first book, and, well, took us deeper into it. You weren't just stuck in one place for the length of the book, like you were with Freefall and Closer. In Deeper, Will travels through areas like Great Plain, the underground sea, the Pore, and more places. Deeper was almost constant action and reaction, a journey through a hellish landscape populated by vicious creatures and the even more vicious Styx people.
In this world, people die. People are executed. And our main characters see that. If there's anything I remember most from the series, it's the brutality of this world Will and Chester are forced to go through in search of answers and the need to survive. Deeper had some truly memorable moments, scenes that brought me to the edge of my seat, that made me clench my teeth almost to the point of pain.
To put it simply, Deeper is a breath of fresh air when it comes to YA fiction. But starting with Freefall, it felt to me that the series was starting to lose some of the magic that was making the first two books so great. For one thing, in Freefall and Closer, the main characters are mostly stuck in the same environments, unlike with Deeper when they were constantly going through different regions.
But the thing that kinda ruined it for me overall was the increasing sci-fi elements. Especially with the turn that Spiral took, I found myself wishing more and more for the atmosphere that the first two books offered. I think Gordon and Williams had something great with the first few books in the series. And as soon as they started introducing more and more outlandish elements, I felt that the story, the characters, and even the writing had begun to suffer. I think the ending of the series went way beyond what I was expecting.
Maybe some people liked it, but I found it to be too outlandish, and not properly set up by what was supposed to be a dark and gritty series. The series is still worth a read though. I think Tunnels and Deeper were special in their own way.
Jeanne 'Divinae'. It felt like I was waiting forever to get my hands on the this book. I might have given it 5 stars, if it wasn't for the very ending. I am talking about the last few pages It was nice that at the very beginning, it gives us the readers a recap of everything.
Then we dive right into to adventures. Our main characters are separated and on their own missions that will eventually hopefully bring them all back together at last.
Elliot and Will are stuck in underworld, where the deadly virus has practically taken every other living thing but birds out. As they attempt to find a way back up to the surface, the others are making their way about. Drake and Jiggs are stuck in middle and have to find a way back up to the surface. Chester is with everyone else. He isn't the same since his parents death and he isn't coping very well. Some people we have met before come back and make their presence.
Also, our gang get some help in the most unlikely places. Alex, aka Bug Lady, is in London and her babies have started to take over England. It is utter chaos and death on the Topsoil. During the story, I found that I had some sympathy for Rebecca Two. Mostly, the evil Alex is the one in control and running everything. Elliot and Will stumble upon the mysteries of the Pyramids in the underworld. In fact, Elliot starts to have memories and with them she might know the answer to save everyone The very end of the story was a bit of a surprise.
I was pleasantly happy to see the turn of events at the end of the story. It was sad that some of our MC's died off. Some of them had realizations about themselves. So, the end we are heading homeward bound on the spaceship Earth.
Elliot is pretty much solo in the underworld, though I am sure some of the others must of survived. I wonder how long it will take to get home? It must be a massive planet if Earth was a spaceship. How will their home world welcome them? Will the just be killed off? They have been away for very, very long time. Will their home world even remember about the ship? What if their isn't a home world left? Maybe their mission originally, was to find a new place to call home? Will Elliot be reunited with her friends?
Then how about Will? He is turning into a Styx? That is how they are going to end the series? Of course there will be many of us who want to know what will happen to him and everyone else? Though thinking about it, perhaps all the humans are pure humans anymore? Perhaps they all have an essence of Styx in them. Anyways, though the series ended well, it left it open with more questions?
Hopefully, they will continue with a new series. Jessica Hoop. I was scared to read this book. I started reading the series in the sixth grade and am now a Junior in high school. As I get older, I have become less and less tolerant of fantasy and sci-fy books. So Terminal, being the final book in a crazy sci-fy series, scared me. But I had nothing to worry about. My favorite book in the series is easily Freefall, but Terminal is near the top.
Freefall hit me hard with the whole idea of the "inner earth. Terminal was very similar. Spoilers ahead The earth is a spaceship? But yet, it makes sense. It would completely make sense that these Styx are aliens--though are they really aliens because they are on their spaceship?
The Phase was really difficult for me to wrap my mind around, but for some odd reason the tower and the scepter and the spaceship and the aliens just made sense. It was just weird enough to tie up loose ends about why the Styx were so weird and different. But I am upset for the cliffhangers for the story of out characters. This feeling reminds me of the first time I read Freefall. I thought Freefall was the last book in the series.
When that plane flew through the inner world, I lost my mind. However, Terminal is the last book. I can accept the cliffhangers, because that's how Roderick Gordon writes. It's a style that I expect. If everyone lived happily ever after, I would be furious, because that's not how it works.
But did Gordon really have to kill Drake? He's by far my favorite character. Drake, a normal human being at war with the Styx, came to his end by something as simple as a bullet. I know that with the radiation poisoning, there was some very serious foreshadowing that he would die, but Gordon let me do something very dangerous--hope. I hoped that Drake would get some magical medicine, and he would go back to being the strong and unstoppable warrior. But Gordon snatched the hope from me with Drake's death.
His last words were brilliant. Even though Drake claims he cannot think of any jokes, this is a joke itself. It was said before in the book that the worse the injury, the worse the joke.
I found it fitting that the worst joke Drake could ever say was that he couldn't think of a joke. That line was enough to bring a small smile to my face before he took his final breath. I just cannot believe the 'Tunnels' series is finally over. I felt a void within me when I finished Terminal. I'm quite sad :' But I also have to admit that it was from the best 'Tunnels' books in my opinion, with 'Freefal'. How the story develop from page to page was something remarkable.
I also enjoyed how Will got to mature from book to book, specially on how braver he became, how he was willing to fight until his last breath to help his friends and everyone else from the styx, and what a good person he still was.
I will miss him a lot. Poor Chester, he became something horrible because of all the things that happened to him. He got crazy and enraged just to get his revenge on Danforth.
I felt quite bad for him after he died, but he couldn't be saved anymore. The madness took over him completely I also got intrigued about Elliott.
I always knew that she had something special, and now I know what it was. She was the great savior of the planet. And the whole twist of events were what caught me the most. Danforth's simulated betrayal to infiltrate within the styx, the origin of the humans and styx alike, how Martha ended up to being alive.
Roderick Gordon, Brian Williams, you did an amazing and remarkable conclusion to the series, and I couldn't be more satisfied with the ending. Though, in the end, there were left a lot of questions, doubts about what is going to happen to the Earth and its population now that the planet itself is moving to an unknown destination what they will find, and what will happen to Will, what will happen now that the New Germanians are all alone in the inner world If they don't get to find Elliott in the future.
Lots of questions, and I put all of my hopes that there will be answers in the future. I'm just dreaming, okey!? Dreaming is for all! And I cannot believe it's now over. But I'm more than happy now that I've got the chance to read the series until the very end.
Hope we'll get to hear something new from Roderick in the future. If you're reading this, Roderick, I'll be waiting patiently Terminal is the last book in the series about Will and Chester. It's now a long time since the two boys discovered the Colony, and a lot have happened. Terminal starts where Spiral left off. Eight weeks to be precise. And stripped it so efficiently that the stench of decay that once hung over the dead city had almost completely vanished. Everywhere Will looked there were sun-bleached bones, mostly poking from crumpled clothes.
The Styx are sweeping across England, leaving death and devastation in their wake. It seems nothing can stop them now. But, deep in the centre of the earth, Will and Elliott must find a way Highly-anticipated sixth book in the internationally-bestselling Tunnels series.
His Pellucidar series is set in the hollow earth and I was a bit shocked how close some of my ideas were to his when Will and Dr Burrows finally make their way through to the inner world in Freefall. Hi, Soso. I grew up watching Doctor Who. I used to watch it because I was so desperate — I watched television all the time when I was at home during the holidays and missed it like anything. Doctor Who was very low budget back then, but it was compelling because the plots could play out over quite a few episodes rather than being restricted to one or two.
When it was brought back I started to watch it again with my two sons. Pedro also sent this question: When is your birthday? I was going to bury it in one of the books but never did in the end. I thought I should work them all out and out them down on a piece of paper, particularly if I was going to embark on any prequels. Yes and no. I loved it and hated it. Building a series like that and trying to make each book better, yet different from the last is a real killer.
You can send a story in so many directions that it sometimes makes you freeze and unable to write. What happens next? Is this absolutely the right choice? Something totally new. Thank you for answering so many questions! No, thank you, Sirius. I thought this comment on Goodreads.
Dear Mr. And reading these books made me filled with joy and satisfaction like no many others before. Until the end of the last book. Now all the joy is suddenly disappeared and I feel so empty… It really upset me in a way I could not imagine. I really sailed in to the story and connected with characters and I think they deserved better… We deserved better. There is a reason why you wrote this, at least for me, upsetting the end.
Whatever it was — some publisher-business reason or some strong emotions that you felt back then- I can only hope that you will write next book and free me from this sad, empty filling which I carry inside me, which binds me now to whole series.
It was very heartfelt and I really appreciate that. Who knows what might happen in the future … maybe there will be another book. Thanks again for your comment. My friend Joel Guelzo is raising money for his film on Kickstarter at the moment, and it prompted me to watch this again.
Really love it. Alex Naumovitch sent me this brilliant picture of a Styx she made with reclaimed items. Beverly Hills, Calif.
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