The Release (Prey Trilogy #3)

by Tom Isbell

Overview

The Release is the thrilling YA conclusion to Tom Isbell’s suspenseful post-apocalyptic Prey series, perfect for fans of The Maze Runner. Two months have passed since Book, Cat, Hope, and the others rescued the remaining Less Thans from Liberty, but they aren’t safe yet, and soon they’ll have to risk everything in order to defeat their enemies.

The group must leave the camp for good and escape the wolves, the Brown Shirts, and the Hunters. Most important, they need to stop Chancellor Maddox before she executes her Final Solution and grows even more powerful.

While the others are seeking freedom, for Hope, the battle has become personal. She wants revenge, no matter what the cost—and she’s willing to sacrifice anything standing in her way. The group may still be weak, but they don’t have time to wait. They must overthrow the Chancellor, even if it means joining forces with those who once betrayed them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062216090
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	01/16/2018
Series:	Prey Trilogy Series , #3
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	689,505
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Tom Isbell is an actor-author-professor. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, he has acted in theater, film, and TV, working opposite Robert De Niro, Ed Harris, Sarah Jessica Parker, and others. Currently a theater professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, he has had three of his plays produced by the Theater for Young Audiences at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, including Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major, which was adapted into a book with then–First Lady Laura Bush penning the foreword. Tom and his wife, Pat, live in Duluth, Minnesota.

Editorial Reviews

2016-11-16
Book, Hope, and the others continue their desperate search for safety after The Capture (2016) in this trilogy conclusion.The surviving Less Thans' camp is being threatened by the intelligent wolves that had been feasting on the corpses of the Brown Shirts killed in the previous book. No longer safe, they pack up their wounded and make their way back to the refuge where they left the Sisters, with the ultimate goal of escaping the Western Federation Territory altogether. Amid forced relationship drama (Hope freezes Book out, convinced her new facial scars make her "damaged goods"), the group splits, and Hope goes ahead to the Sisters while Book takes a small party to the Skullies' Compound to try to salvage food. Hope (whose chapters are marked by the incessant mantra of "Live today, tears tomorrow") ends up espying suspicious Brown Shirt activity; she follows to gain information, continuing to swear revenge on Chancellor Maddox and Dr. Gallingham. At the Compound, Book salvages a couple of atlas pages. They reunite with the Sisters for a showdown with the Hunters (the book's strongest sequence) before separating again from the nameless background characters for a mission to appeal to the president and to unravel what the Final Solution is. The ending relies on nonsensical motivations, inconsistent characterization, and naked implausibility. Aside from Hope and one side character, all seem white. Flimsy, phoned-in, and forgettable. (Post-apocalyptic adventure. 13-17)

Kirkus Reviews