Tracy H. (FiberBabble) - reviewed on 8/7/2011 + 33 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

The writing alternated between 'written by an adult trying to sound like a young person' and 'written by a young person with delusions of writing ability'.

At times the dialogue included words that are so out of the norm for - well, anyone who isn't a fierce reader or an English major. At other times, I marveled at how the story could be classified 'Young Adult' when the tone and plot would have been believable only to an elementary school-aged child who had lived a fairly sheltered life.

I'm not a fan of dystopian fiction, and foisting this one on a YA audience smacks of, "Hey, Hunger Games was a huge hit. Let's do something similar. It worked for the sparkly vampires!"

Listening to this on audio with male and female voices probably averted some confusion, unless in the book each chapter was prefaced wtih "Boy voice" and "Girl voice", since it jumped back and forth fairly frequently between the two.

The premise, however, was interesting and I stuck it out to see how this story would end. The two star rating is purely for the story's potential.

I won't be pursuing this series.

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