This is it - the moment that’s going to change everything. The moment Felix was born for. The end of the world is coming and there’s no one else who can stop it. But can he start the fire without a match?

If the world ever got to a point where all the books are forbidden, and you could hide some of them in an underground library, which books would you choose to save? No Ordinary Star trilogy by M.C. Frank would definitely get a place in my own secret library. Those books are the perfect mix of dystopian YA fiction and sci-fi, and even though the action is set in the future, some aspects of this story are painfully accurate in our time as well.

No Vain Loss is the third, final installment of the series, and it’s exactly what a finale should look like. The previous two book were more slow-paced, but in this one the action moves forward with the speed of a rocket, introducing many unexpected plot twists that will make your heart burst with emotions. I cried, I laughed, I gasped, my heart got broken several times, but in the end it was just filled with love for this series and with awe for M.C. Frank’s talent.

The book starts where the last one ended, so you don’t feel like missing anything and you can just dive head first into the story and the familiar world. It’s amazing how both main characters, Felix and Astra, changed between the beginning of the first book and the ending of the third one. I love how they both grew up, how their relationship unfolded, how together they learned the meaning of words like love and family, obsolete in their times. I absolutely love those two characters and they’ve became one of my favourite literary couples.

What’s important is that M.C. Frank doesn’t create those perfect, unrealistic heroes and heroines, but they feel real. They make mistakes, sometimes they feel helpless and don’t know what to do, they have to fight with their own limitations, and the way the author described their emotions made me forget they only exist on paper.

M.C. Frank has an impeccable writing style and if I wanted to mark all of my favourite quotes from this book, my highlighter would dry out before I got to the end. Reading No Vain Loss was like finding diamonds in a block of gold - the whole story is amazing, but at some parts I needed to stop and go back, to read them again.

If you’re looking for a unique, captivating, emotional read with an important, powerful message, I highly recommend you pick up No Ordinary Star trilogy and lose yourself in Felix’ and Astra’s story. You won’t be disappointed!

This is it - the moment that’s going to change everything. The moment Felix was born for. The end of the world is coming and there’s no one else who can stop it. But can he start the fire without a match?

If the world ever got to a point where all the books are forbidden, and you could hide some of them in an underground library, which books would you choose to save? No...