The Book Plank

As a new threat arises from outside the walls of the City, the warring Truants and Educators must join forces or be destroyed. The fate of the City is determined at last in this long-awaited conclusion to the Truancy trilogy. The concluding book of the Truancy trilogy! Now first of all I just want to mention that I am writing this review with dual thoughts. First off all, I am finally able to finish a series in a long long time. But on a second thought, finishing a series always leaves me with this empty feeling of never to be able to return in the set world. Earlier this year I started with the Truancy series with the first book written in Isamu Fukui’s earlier years. The first book was a great start of the series and the second book was a prequel to the first (Truancy Origins) showing a great feat of combining and explaining the pasts of several the characters that you met up with in the first book BUT also allowing you to place several pieces of the puzzle to fill in the bl...

n an alternate world, in a nameless totalitarian city, the autocratic Mayor rules the school system with an iron fist, with the help of his Educators. Fighting against the Mayor and his repressive Educators is a group of former students called the Truancy, whose goal is to take down the system by any means possible – at any cost. Against this backdrop, fifteen-year-old Tack is just trying to survive. His days are filled with sadistic teachers, unrelenting schoolwork, and indifferent parents. Things start to look up when he meets Umasi, a mysterious boy who runs a lemonade stand in an uninhabited district. Then someone close to Tack gets killed in the crossfire between the Educators and the Truants, and Tack swears vengeance. To achieve his purpose, he abandons his old life and joins the Truancy. There, he confronts Zyid, an enigmatic leader with his own plans for Tack. But Tack soon finds himself torn between his desire for vengeance and his growing sympathy for the Truants… Wh...