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 These novellas added so much to the story of The Darkest Minds! It was fascinating to see the world from different POVs and times and still have characters we knew and loved play their parts in these stories. The first two were super sad and dark! But hey, they with the tone the whole trilogy perfectly. My favorite of the three was the last one, Beyond the Night. I was so excited the beloved gang was part of it! It was also great that it was set in a time after In the Afterlight even tough the ending is now a bit more open, but luckily hopeful and pretty much happy, anyway.