Review ‘Melancholy’ by Charlotte McConaghy

Josephine is at last free of the blood moon. But in a desperate rush to find
help for a comatose Luke, she discovers the strange and dangerous world of the
resistance, and it is unlike any world Josi has known.

In the west they believe in fury – they cultivate and encourage it. The unruly
people of the resistance know that to survive means to fight. But can they
fight the inevitable cure for sadness that rushes steadily closer?

In the action-packed sequel to Fury, everything Josi believes about herself
will be challenged. Haunted by atrocities and betrayals, she must find the
strength to trust again, and decide how far she is willing to go to fight the
inevitable.

At times both brutal and sweet, Melancholy is the story of second chances and
finding love in a ruined world.

Publication Date:	June 11th, 2015
Series:	The Cure
Genre:	Young Adult/ New Adult Dystopian Romance
Pages:	486
Formats:	eBook, Paperback
Available at:	Amazon

  

After I read the first book in the Cure series called
‘Fury’, I knew I needed to start reading the second book ‘Melancholy’ as fast
as I could. I loved ‘Fury’ and I really wanted to know what would happen next
with Josephine and Luke. So I cleared my reading schedule and began reading as
fast as I could.

‘Melancholy’ is another great book by Charlotte
McConaghy. Men.. I really love this series! I devoured the pages of ‘Fury’, and
with ‘Melancholy’ it was really the same. From the moment I started reading I
didn’t want to stop. ‘Melancholy’ begins right where ‘Fury’ ended. Josephine
and Luke have escaped and are now with the resistance in the west. Everything
is different there. The people are different, the food is different and above
all the rules are different. But Josephine had no choice about where to go with
Luke being comatose. And now there are new treads and dangers. Luke isn’t the
same guy anymore and Josephine has to try to find the strength to make a new
life for herself.

I don’t know what it is with this series but it’s just so
good. I was hooked to every single page and I didn’t want to stop reading until
the end. But when I was at the end, I was just so frustrated because I really
wanted to know more. Yep, that’s how good this story is.

The characters in this series are all very different, but
Charlotte McConaghy describes them all in a way I feel like I know each and
every one of these characters. And Josephine and Luke are definitely my
favorite ones.

Josephine really is a very strong character, although she
really doesn’t think so herself. She doesn’t agree with the rules of the
resistance and although she tries to fit in at first, everyone knows what she
really thinks. I really admired that about her. Josephine also wasn’t afraid to
fight for every person out there. She just wants to make the world a better
place and forget all the horrible things that were done to her.

And Luke.. Well, Luke is a great guy. Everybody likes him.
Luke is tough, nice and just really a good person. In this second book we get
to learn more about Luke and although he changes a little, he is still an
amazing character.

If you’re a fan of the Hunger Games and Divergent, you
will definitely also love this series. It’s just so good and really makes you
want to read until you finished all three books. The story is intriguing and
the world is just ‘normal’ enough that you can actually believe a world like
this would be a possibility. That is if the world went really crazy!

And I really love the covers of these books. They are
just so pretty and I really need to get my hands on some paperback copies!