"I'm ready to stop pretending to be who I think you'd want me to be."

The quiet, stillness of this book gives way to despair. There's been this underlying feeling of defeat this whole time for the Taylor family who are struggling to eke out a living on a farm that has possibly already failed.

I really love the contrast of this peaceful, struggling family with the rocket boy Jet Jones and his own more violent battle for survival.

We learn more about Jet in this volume, and the stakes are raised as a new threat emerges, or at the very least solidifies an old threat.

I'm really loving this series, although series isn't the right word. It really is a single story told over four volumes. This could have been told in a single trade paperback but it really benefits from the quiet, empty scenes as I find it helps intensify the action when it occurs.

The final volume of "Rust" is a fitting send-off for these characters. I really appreciate that for such a dialogue-sparse book, there's plenty of space for the reader to piece together what's going on.

It's easy for me to breeze through this series because I don't need to slow down to read dialogue. So it took me awhile to realise I actually needed to slow down to examine each panel to understand what's happening because of the lack of text.

I ended up re-reading the climax of this book just so I fully understood what was happening. The first time around I was left disappointed, the second I realised it was a nice way to finish the story.

I enjoyed Jet's interactions with the boy Oz. Oz's mistrust of the robot and his eventual realisation that there's maybe more to Jet than just being a robot who looks like a kid.

Part of me would love to see an animated version of this, but another part of me feels like I already have.