raconteur reviewed on 5/12/2011 + 168 more book reviews

I liked this book, and I will read any sequels (if there are any).

However, when I first began reading it, I was thrilled, thinking how much enormous potential this book had in terms of where the story could go. Unfortunately, as I kept reading, the book failed in terms of potential. This was just pages and pages and pages of teen girl angst. Yes, she lives in a society quite a lot like Brave New World. Which is interesting. Yet, this is all background for this girl's teen angst.

So, I was pretty disappointed in that nothing really happens in this novel. Other than us hearing Cassie's thoughts on the two boys she loves. And we hear these thoughts for hundreds of pages. Over and over.

Things get slightly more interesting in the end, leaving events open to a sequel. I feel like the first chapter and the last chapter were pretty much the only interesting things in the novel. Everything in between was ... shallow, empty of any potential.

Hopefully, if there is a sequel, it will contain more action, as well as more depth.

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