Watched movies and have finished a first book. I mostly skipped kisses and too YA girlish parts though. Also fast forwarded through last pages since Jeanine(smart evil antagonist) monologues are purely ridiculous. But otherwise I am impressed by the quality considering the author was very young and at the beginning of her career writing this.
Anyway, I know from movies that population was genetically redacted, hence the isolated factions. Was this idea conceived already during a first book writing, what you think, or it was a later attempt to explain the world building?
I don’t really see any scenes to demonstrate the people were fundamenlly incapable to break away from their respective factions.It was said, that every faction conditions members to think and act in certain way, like in a religious communities, academic ones, in sport, various movements, etc in our time. I’ve seen it many times. I’ve seen it IRL. But I don’t really see any convincingly pathologically one dimensional adult characters in the book. Most of the characters are kids anyway, and I am aware how cruel and scheming many teen kids are if left w/o adult supervision and how easily they fall into ideologies. On the other hand it was mentioned a few times how people bend rules of their factions quietly, just pretending externally to follow general rules, but that’s a trademark of any totalitarian society.
So this euginical explanation does not really add up to me.
by pgess