Title: Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods
Author: Suzanne Collins
Type: Fiction
Page Count/Review Word Count: 280
Rating: 4/5
This was probably my favourite of the lot of all of the Gregor books, in part because it was interesting to see a fantastical take on a pandemic. Collins wrote this long before COVID was a thing, but then to be fair, we’d been warned over and over again that a pandemic was about due. And it seems like here, she was mostly influenced by the Spanish Flu.
In this book, a plague affects all of the warm-blooded creatures of the underland, which leaves Gregor having to find a cure. He’s reluctant at first, but then a couple of the people (and creatures) that he loves the most are stricken by the curse.
The prophecy that’s central to this book seemed a little easier than the others to untangle, to the point at which I was getting annoyed with Gregor and his fellow travellers because I thought they should have been able to figure it out.
But overall, it was yet another decent instalment in the series which helps to build on the work that Collins has done so far but takes things to a darker place. It almost feels as though the books have reached a new level of darkness, a bit like the later books in the Harry Potter series.
And so if you’ve read this far, you’re going to want to keep on reading because this is pretty much as good as it gets, unless the final book manages to top it. I don’t think it will.