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tag_gregory's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
4.0
Really getting into this world building but then the book ends on a huge cliffhanger and I discovered the series was never finished. 😕
lbrick363's review
2.0
*sigh*
I didn’t care that this was a YA book. I was going to read it and enjoy it! Well, I read it and did NOT enjoy it. Ben is a whiny baby! There are so many times I wanted to just slap him. Honestly, I didn’t care for any of the characters.
I didn’t care that this was a YA book. I was going to read it and enjoy it! Well, I read it and did NOT enjoy it. Ben is a whiny baby! There are so many times I wanted to just slap him. Honestly, I didn’t care for any of the characters.
kaje_harper's review
4.0
I won this book from the author as a blog hop prize.
* 3.5 stars. This book has some of the most unique world-building I have read in a while. The main character is an interesting gay 14-year-old in a post-apocalyptic society. The reasons for the apocalypse and the shape of the existing societies are unusual and the present-tense narration is well, although not perfectly, handled. The story holds out some real promise as the beginning of a trilogy.
I found the MC believably immature, which unfortunately includes a tendency to change emotional viewpoints, sometimes within one paragraph. This I think was part of what kept me from connecting with him on an emotional level as deeply as I would like. There is also a lot of violence in this story as it plays out, which may not be to everyone's taste. The ending of the story does resolve the minor immediate conflict, but leaves a lot of plot lines and questions open. It's a good thing there is a sequel coming since this book would not stand alone well.
I look forward to seeing the MC mature in the upcoming books and perhaps have deeper emotional reactions. I'm also curious about the gods, reanimation, speaking animals, mutants and a host of other world-building which offered tantalizing glimpses but remain shrouded in mystery at the end of this story. A credible first-book fantasy, with a lot of room for growth.
* 3.5 stars. This book has some of the most unique world-building I have read in a while. The main character is an interesting gay 14-year-old in a post-apocalyptic society. The reasons for the apocalypse and the shape of the existing societies are unusual and the present-tense narration is well, although not perfectly, handled. The story holds out some real promise as the beginning of a trilogy.
I found the MC believably immature, which unfortunately includes a tendency to change emotional viewpoints, sometimes within one paragraph. This I think was part of what kept me from connecting with him on an emotional level as deeply as I would like. There is also a lot of violence in this story as it plays out, which may not be to everyone's taste. The ending of the story does resolve the minor immediate conflict, but leaves a lot of plot lines and questions open. It's a good thing there is a sequel coming since this book would not stand alone well.
I look forward to seeing the MC mature in the upcoming books and perhaps have deeper emotional reactions. I'm also curious about the gods, reanimation, speaking animals, mutants and a host of other world-building which offered tantalizing glimpses but remain shrouded in mystery at the end of this story. A credible first-book fantasy, with a lot of room for growth.
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