This, it is implied, is what's wrong with their world.

They are not mortals anymore, so they feel like gods themselves. According to Peter's grandfather, Longevity has suppressed the need of the people to believe in God. Gemma Malley made it a matter of religion, or the lack of one. But when angels and demons are mentioned I start to shift uneasily on my seat. I'm ok with moral versus immoral, freedom versus repression, justice versus injustice. On top of that, I grew increasily uncomfortable about the whole good versus evil issue. But I expected more from them, so it wasn't pleasant to watch Peter and then Anna capitulate. To be fair, Peter and Anna are only teenagers, and although they acted almost like adults at the end of The Declaration they're still young, unexperienced and probably not so hard to manipulate. I was also annoyed by the way Malley treated her characters, showing us their absolute commitment to a cause in the previous book and then portraying them as relatively easy to be convinced that they might have been wrong. Almost the whole story revolves around the concept of Longevity, with its supporters praising its virtues to the (initially) skeptical Peter, and the resistance doing nothing more than sporadically and basically ineffectively attacking some vans. The book was going to be called Longevity+, and although I preferred The Resistance as a title, imagining actual actions of resistance from the Underground, I have to say that the previous title would have been more appropriate. It also dedicates too much time to scientific speculations about Longevity and its role in the world. Anna actually makes her first appearance only after maybe fifty pages! (I borrowed the book so I can't check now, but trust me, it took way too long for her to appear). It was mainly focused on Peter, instead of Anna. It wasn't near as gripping as the first book. But, alas, its sequel didn't live up to the expectations at all. I was looking forward to it since reading the first installment, The Declaration. I was extremely excited when The Resistance came out.

The resistance by gemma malley