I really don't get it with this one. People talk about this book like it is ground breaking – it's not. So predictable. I DNF'd about 70% of the way in, maybe something interesting happened towards the end but I doubt it. Mediocre prose, shitty character writing, run of the mill YA story posing as something more because there's some violence and mentions of rape. It's just Hunger Games if it was written by a man with very little talent and less self awareness.
by omgtoji
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I got through it but was far from impressed. It’s OK. An easy read. I haven’t bothered to re-read it.
There’s a huge jump in writing quality between the first book and the rest of the series. That being said, I don’t think the series is as good as a lot of others say it is. The writing style just doesn’t appeal to me very much with all the extremely short sentences but it seems to work for a lot of others.