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goodyeargoodbooks's review against another edition
5.0
I will admit that I picked this up solely because it was only £2 and I had heard of the TV show, and was not expecting it to be particularly enticing, but after finishing it in one sitting, I was very pleased to be proved wrong.
Once I had started this book, I couldn't put it down. Aspects of the outcome could be guessed easily enough, but were not blatantly obvious, and as someone who likes to guess plot twists, I found this very satisfying. The book was also a good length, did not feel rushed, and came to a natural ending which left me desperate to read a sequel.
I did like having four points of view - it was easy to keep a track of which viewpoint it was at which time, so there was little confusion. I grew very attached to the characters of Glass, Octavia, Luke and Clarke very quickly, and on the whole, I did care for the majority of the characters, which is a rarity. The one character I did not like was Bellamy, however this dislike was due to particular aspects of his personality which I find disagreeable, not at all due to the writing or characterisation, and at the end of the day did not impact my enjoyment of the book.
The flashbacks were very well done, in that they reveal a bit of information at a time, rather than all at once, and because of this I was left wanting more information than was provided in that snippet, so immediately read on.
The 100 was a satisfying book which I would definitely read again (although after researching the TV show, will not be watching it, as I do not want the programme - which sounds sub-standard - to tarnish my view of the book). 5 stars, and a place on my favourite reads list.
Once I had started this book, I couldn't put it down. Aspects of the outcome could be guessed easily enough, but were not blatantly obvious, and as someone who likes to guess plot twists, I found this very satisfying. The book was also a good length, did not feel rushed, and came to a natural ending which left me desperate to read a sequel.
I did like having four points of view - it was easy to keep a track of which viewpoint it was at which time, so there was little confusion. I grew very attached to the characters of Glass, Octavia, Luke and Clarke very quickly, and on the whole, I did care for the majority of the characters, which is a rarity. The one character I did not like was Bellamy, however this dislike was due to particular aspects of his personality which I find disagreeable, not at all due to the writing or characterisation, and at the end of the day did not impact my enjoyment of the book.
The flashbacks were very well done, in that they reveal a bit of information at a time, rather than all at once, and because of this I was left wanting more information than was provided in that snippet, so immediately read on.
The 100 was a satisfying book which I would definitely read again (although after researching the TV show, will not be watching it, as I do not want the programme - which sounds sub-standard - to tarnish my view of the book). 5 stars, and a place on my favourite reads list.
arwenvdleeuw's review against another edition
5.0
GEWELDIG!
Toen ik het boek De 100 voor het eerst in mijn handen had was ik meteen al enthousiast. De cover ziet er geweldig uit en als het boek kantelt dan zie je dat er allemaal sterretjes op zitten. Het verhaal speelt zich af in de verre toekomst, nadat de aarde door een nucleaire ramp onleefbaar is geworden leeft de mensheid in een ruimteschip. Maar de voorraden raken langzaam op en dus worden honderd jeugdcriminelen naar aarde gestuurd om te kijken of de mensheid daar weer kan leven.
Er zijn 4 hoofdpersonen in dit boek en ze hebben allemaal een eigen verhaal. Clarke wordt naar aarde gestuurd omdat ze een misdaad heeft begaan, Wells en Bellamy willen beide alleen maar iemand beschermen en Glass moet de liefde van haar leven achterlaten als ze naar aarde wordt gestuurd. Deze personages wisselen elkaar per hoofdstuk af, hoofdstuk om hoofdstuk vertellen ze hun verhaal. Zo kom je steeds meer over iedereen te weten maar nooit alles in 1 keer. Hierdoor bouwt de spanning zich op en halverwege het boek, als je alles denkt te begrijpen, word je hele beeld weer omver gegooid.
Dit boek is een aanrader omdat het alles heeft wat een goede Young Adult nodig heeft, de spanning, de romantiek, de raadsels en natuurlijk een plot wat iedereen wel aanspreekt. Dystopische boeken zijn op het moment ontzettend populair en daardoor wordt er veel in dit genre geschreven, maar de 100 blinkt daar in uit! Het is niet het boek dat je verwacht te lezen op een positieve manier en ook een stuk origineler dan de meeste boeken, die gebaseerd zijn op De Hongerspelen van Suzanne Collins. Door de vlotte schrijfstijl van Kass Morgan en haar talent om zelfs de kleinste dingen groot te maken kun je het boek bijna niet meer wegleggen. Elk hoofdstuk vraagt weer naar meer en ik kan niet wachten op het tweede deel: De 100, dag 21!
Toen ik het boek De 100 voor het eerst in mijn handen had was ik meteen al enthousiast. De cover ziet er geweldig uit en als het boek kantelt dan zie je dat er allemaal sterretjes op zitten. Het verhaal speelt zich af in de verre toekomst, nadat de aarde door een nucleaire ramp onleefbaar is geworden leeft de mensheid in een ruimteschip. Maar de voorraden raken langzaam op en dus worden honderd jeugdcriminelen naar aarde gestuurd om te kijken of de mensheid daar weer kan leven.
Er zijn 4 hoofdpersonen in dit boek en ze hebben allemaal een eigen verhaal. Clarke wordt naar aarde gestuurd omdat ze een misdaad heeft begaan, Wells en Bellamy willen beide alleen maar iemand beschermen en Glass moet de liefde van haar leven achterlaten als ze naar aarde wordt gestuurd. Deze personages wisselen elkaar per hoofdstuk af, hoofdstuk om hoofdstuk vertellen ze hun verhaal. Zo kom je steeds meer over iedereen te weten maar nooit alles in 1 keer. Hierdoor bouwt de spanning zich op en halverwege het boek, als je alles denkt te begrijpen, word je hele beeld weer omver gegooid.
Dit boek is een aanrader omdat het alles heeft wat een goede Young Adult nodig heeft, de spanning, de romantiek, de raadsels en natuurlijk een plot wat iedereen wel aanspreekt. Dystopische boeken zijn op het moment ontzettend populair en daardoor wordt er veel in dit genre geschreven, maar de 100 blinkt daar in uit! Het is niet het boek dat je verwacht te lezen op een positieve manier en ook een stuk origineler dan de meeste boeken, die gebaseerd zijn op De Hongerspelen van Suzanne Collins. Door de vlotte schrijfstijl van Kass Morgan en haar talent om zelfs de kleinste dingen groot te maken kun je het boek bijna niet meer wegleggen. Elk hoofdstuk vraagt weer naar meer en ik kan niet wachten op het tweede deel: De 100, dag 21!
meg_clark_1988's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
kate4ez's review against another edition
2.0
Great premise, poor execution. There were too many flashbacks, and too many things that made no sense. For example, if you're cutting off the oxygen to part of a spaceship, how is it possible to crawl through an air vent to that part of the ship?
The system of laws on the spaceship makes absolutely no sense. They don't even produce enough offspring to replace their population 1:1, much less replace the scores of people they execute for every minor rule violation.
Imagine it as a math problem--say there are 1000 people total on a space ship. Couples are only allowed to have a single child, and not all couples are allowed to reproduce (I.e., teen pregnancy is punishable by death of both parents). Anyone who breaks any rule *at all* is killed. If one person on average is executed every week, how long will it take for the entire population to kill itself off? By my math, they wouldn't last a generation.
The system of laws on the spaceship makes absolutely no sense. They don't even produce enough offspring to replace their population 1:1, much less replace the scores of people they execute for every minor rule violation.
Imagine it as a math problem--say there are 1000 people total on a space ship. Couples are only allowed to have a single child, and not all couples are allowed to reproduce (I.e., teen pregnancy is punishable by death of both parents). Anyone who breaks any rule *at all* is killed. If one person on average is executed every week, how long will it take for the entire population to kill itself off? By my math, they wouldn't last a generation.
ellipsiscool's review against another edition
2.0
I loved the concept of this book. It's been hundreds of years since humans left Earth due to a nuclear winter. They are living in a ship that orbits the Earth and has extremely strict laws. Since there are limited resources convicts are executed with very little trial. Juveniles are held until they are 18 and given a retrial, but most of them are executed as well.
It becomes necessary to send a scout group back to Earth due to dwindling resources and 100 convicted juveniles are chosen and promised that if they survive, they will be pardoned of their crimes as heroes to the human race.
As with all young adult tiles I've read recently, the melodrama and "romance" got in the way of the interesting storyline. How many people really find the love of their life as teenagers? Really, how many? I know I didn't. I rolled my eyes many, many times throughout the course of this book when some whiny teenager who thinks they are so brave because they are going to risk the safety of all of humanity because they are so much in love . . . Oh and the love triangles, ugh.
I so wanted a rich world to unfold. I wanted to know how the space colony society was first built. Who were the original Arcadians and Waldenites? How did they decide who got to be in Pheonix? Through the the entire book, I wanted more discoveries about Earth. There just had to be people still there. Did some of the humans go underground? Why weren't those people confronting these kids who just fell from the sky? Would it really take that long? I hated Glass's story. It seemed like her only purpose was to keep us in the loop about what was going on in space, but really? They pardoned her just because her mom was willing to sleep with a politician? What exactly caused humans to leave Earth? Why were humans on Earth at nuclear war?
The most interesting storyline was between Bellamy and Octavia. The book would have been much, much stronger if it just concentrated on them and cut out all the sappy melodrama.
It becomes necessary to send a scout group back to Earth due to dwindling resources and 100 convicted juveniles are chosen and promised that if they survive, they will be pardoned of their crimes as heroes to the human race.
As with all young adult tiles I've read recently, the melodrama and "romance" got in the way of the interesting storyline. How many people really find the love of their life as teenagers? Really, how many? I know I didn't. I rolled my eyes many, many times throughout the course of this book when some whiny teenager who thinks they are so brave because they are going to risk the safety of all of humanity because they are so much in love . . . Oh and the love triangles, ugh.
I so wanted a rich world to unfold. I wanted to know how the space colony society was first built. Who were the original Arcadians and Waldenites? How did they decide who got to be in Pheonix? Through the the entire book, I wanted more discoveries about Earth. There just had to be people still there. Did some of the humans go underground? Why weren't those people confronting these kids who just fell from the sky? Would it really take that long? I hated Glass's story. It seemed like her only purpose was to keep us in the loop about what was going on in space, but really? They pardoned her just because her mom was willing to sleep with a politician? What exactly caused humans to leave Earth? Why were humans on Earth at nuclear war?
The most interesting storyline was between Bellamy and Octavia. The book would have been much, much stronger if it just concentrated on them and cut out all the sappy melodrama.
zelantrabooks's review against another edition
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
kofolapumpkin's review against another edition
4.0
I really enjoyed this book. It is very different from the tv show and I loved that because some things happened in the book that I wish would have happened in the show by now! :D
kaitiecakes's review against another edition
4.0
The book was interesting enough but I was hoping all the same characters from the show would be in it.
However I am excited to continue with the series, I read this gook very fast and can’t wait to continue.
However I am excited to continue with the series, I read this gook very fast and can’t wait to continue.