Initial Impressions 6/12/14:Very good! A great conclusion to the series. I really enjoyed the dual POVs between Dean and Josie. I love make POVs but it's nice to have a female perspective in this series too! 
 I really enjoyed the series overall and I thought this closed it out very nicely! 
 Full review posted HERE on The Book Addict's Guide 7/16/14: I'm so excited to finish the MONUMENT 14 trilogy! The Fierce Reads event where Emmy Laybourne was promoting the very first book was my first book event/author appearance ever and MONUMENT 14: SKY ON FIRE was my book of choice on my way back from BEA last year, so the trilogy holds a bit of a special place in my heart! 
 One thing I've always loved in the series was how Emmy doesn't shy away from writing the really action-packed, in-your-face scenes. She does tone down on the swearing (hey, we have to keep it PG-13 somehow, right?) but the action, the gore, the reality of what is happening in the book is never really glossed over. Things don't get TOO violent, but the reader really gets to experiences things as the characters are - right there in the thick of it. 
 I really appreciated the dual POVs! We saw dual POVs between Dean and Alex in SKY ON FIRE but MONUMENT 14: SAVAGE DRIFT features Dean as the male lead still and Josie as the other view point. The last we knew of her, she had sacrificed herself to protect the lives of the other kids and presumed dead so it was really interesting to not only get a female POV but also one that's taking place on the complete opposite side of the country and so distant from the main group of kids. 
 The one thing I think I was missing throughout the trilogy was maybe a bit more character development and relationship development. I really enjoyed reading about each of the characters but there were so many and there was so much going on that I really would have liked to see them interact a bit more so I could get to know a bit more about them. I was just lacking a little bit of connection to each one and I actually ended up connecting to Josie the most in this book, I think because her character was so far removed from everyone else that we knew that I really got to see how she handled herself on her own. 
 The ending was just what I always wanted it to be. Everything wrapped up so nicely and there were even little bonuses I didn't see coming. It was a great apocalyptic and action-packed trilogy that I think many different ages could enjoy, male or female. I'm so glad I invested my time in this series and I feel a little twinge of satisfaction having finished it! I really enjoyed Emmy's books and plan on picking up more of her works in the future!