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ashl3y44's review against another edition
3.0
Actual Rating is 3.5 stars
I love dystopian fiction. This one is different from others that I have read.
Rena Moon is a 16 year old, who can’t help but to get into trouble at every turn. She is one of those characters who, thinks that there has to be more then just following the rules and staying under the radar. She is rebellious, and is always trying to figure out a way to make her life better. Rena and her best friend, escape one day to the forbidden land and after a triggered earth quake, they find a cave full of things that Rena thinks she can sell to try and escape her life. This goes well for her until her friend is taken for the one thing Rena wants really badly. She is faced with a decision to give up what she has to save her best friend. I really liked Rena, she is a little weird but with what she has to deal with I don’t blame her. I wish it had explained a little more about her and what she can do. It had a good engaging story line, and was very interesting. It’s hard to imagine living a life like Rena’s. I also didn’t believe the Instant connection between her and Nevan but he is full of his own secrets, which makes him an interesting Bad boy sort of type.
Overall this one is a good read.
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lumatere's review against another edition
1.0
DNF
I simply could not finish this book. It was much too difficult to read, so I had to stop at 40%. My main problem would probably be the main character, as I have never come across a teen that is so annoyingly childish. I'm guessing the author hasn't spoken to a teen in a while, necause I assure you, this is NOT how teens are. And this is coming from a teen. It was creepy how obsessed she was with her crush, and it reminds me of the crushes I had back in elementary school. Immature and childish.
My second problem was with the development of the dystopian setting, and as far as I read, there was very little. On top of that, the dystopian world didn't exactly captivate me. Put bluntly, I was pretty bored.
Yet another boring dystopian. I wasn't the biggest fan of the cover, and the story wasn't that great either.
I simply could not finish this book. It was much too difficult to read, so I had to stop at 40%. My main problem would probably be the main character, as I have never come across a teen that is so annoyingly childish. I'm guessing the author hasn't spoken to a teen in a while, necause I assure you, this is NOT how teens are. And this is coming from a teen. It was creepy how obsessed she was with her crush, and it reminds me of the crushes I had back in elementary school. Immature and childish.
My second problem was with the development of the dystopian setting, and as far as I read, there was very little. On top of that, the dystopian world didn't exactly captivate me. Put bluntly, I was pretty bored.
Yet another boring dystopian. I wasn't the biggest fan of the cover, and the story wasn't that great either.
kstutz's review against another edition
2.0
I enjoyed this book but overall I felt that it wasn’t totally unique but it brought in so many classic dystopian elements that it held my attention to the end. The setting was very in line with books such as The Hunger Games or Defiance.
The citizens are stuck within their community to serve the overlord until there are able to pay their debt to society. If they came from money, debt didn’t accumulate but being poor meant that failing to meet societies standards usually meant you collected debt on a daily basis. This was very along the lines of “the rich get richer while the poor get poorer”. You find out that the main character Rena is currently “working off” her debt that has already begun to collect. One day, while out exploring with her best friend, Rena finds a cave of treasures that she believes to be her ticket out of poverty but just ends up in her best friend getting kidnapped. Rena soon embarks on a journey with her long time crush to find not only her best friend but answers to questions she didn’t even know she was asking.
Some of the citizens of Hollowcrest have special talents that allow for them to do mysterious and sometimes wonderful things. I felt this was in the same lines as Under the Never Sky. Our main character Rena happens to be able to feel and control vibrations of the earth. I am not going to lie, when I first read about the Others I thought I was going to be disinterested but I was proved wrong, these “powers” intrigued me in a way I wasn’t expecting! Rena finds that her power can be curse but can also end up saving her life.
Overall this is a great read for any fan of the dystopian genre. While not totally a unique setting, it was still a captivating read held my interest until the very last page!
The citizens are stuck within their community to serve the overlord until there are able to pay their debt to society. If they came from money, debt didn’t accumulate but being poor meant that failing to meet societies standards usually meant you collected debt on a daily basis. This was very along the lines of “the rich get richer while the poor get poorer”. You find out that the main character Rena is currently “working off” her debt that has already begun to collect. One day, while out exploring with her best friend, Rena finds a cave of treasures that she believes to be her ticket out of poverty but just ends up in her best friend getting kidnapped. Rena soon embarks on a journey with her long time crush to find not only her best friend but answers to questions she didn’t even know she was asking.
Some of the citizens of Hollowcrest have special talents that allow for them to do mysterious and sometimes wonderful things. I felt this was in the same lines as Under the Never Sky. Our main character Rena happens to be able to feel and control vibrations of the earth. I am not going to lie, when I first read about the Others I thought I was going to be disinterested but I was proved wrong, these “powers” intrigued me in a way I wasn’t expecting! Rena finds that her power can be curse but can also end up saving her life.
Overall this is a great read for any fan of the dystopian genre. While not totally a unique setting, it was still a captivating read held my interest until the very last page!
hannahtrahair's review
3.0
Actual Rating: 3.5 stars
I love dystopian fiction - I think that's pretty obvious. So when I saw this on the Making Connections goodreads group I had to have it, no questions asked. And whilst not blown away, it certainly piqued my interest.
The world, whilst not standout unique, was interesting and generally very well built. Not sure whether a sequel is being planned (?) but if it is then this is something that would certainly draw me to read it - simply because I would like to see it expanded. The Others were whispered about and mentioned frequently, but in Edge of Truth there was little scope of, or connection between, their abilities and no reason explored behind why they had been blessed with these powers.
The opening page put me off Rena and Nevan slightly because of the way the reader was just left simply to believe the insta-love between the pairing. However, throughout the course of the novel I came to root for them more and more until I eventually fell for them completely - leading to a few heartbreaking moments. Other characters such as Trace and Blaze, particularly Blaze, I LOVED Blaze, were well developed. Again on Blaze, I really enjoyed her character development from just a timid sidekick to a far more respectable individual who truly held her own beside Rena in the Badlands - an interesting transition and incredibly well-written friendship.
Despite the repetitive use of 'bodink' (which, alongside 'SME' I neither understand nor could find any definition of) and a couple of areas which could have done with slightly better editing, I have to say that it was a decent read on the whole which kept me entertained for a few hours. I would certainly read a sequel and I'm sure I would enjoy it, but giving this book four stars would have put it on the same level as [b:Divergent|13335037|Divergent (Divergent, #1)|Veronica Roth|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328559506s/13335037.jpg|13155899] or [b:The Hobbit or There and Back Again|823754|The Annotated Hobbit The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again|J.R.R. Tolkien|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1204691997s/823754.jpg|10445036] according to my previous ratings - and I don't think I can justify that.
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An advanced reading copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
I love dystopian fiction - I think that's pretty obvious. So when I saw this on the Making Connections goodreads group I had to have it, no questions asked. And whilst not blown away, it certainly piqued my interest.
The world, whilst not standout unique, was interesting and generally very well built. Not sure whether a sequel is being planned (?) but if it is then this is something that would certainly draw me to read it - simply because I would like to see it expanded. The Others were whispered about and mentioned frequently, but in Edge of Truth there was little scope of, or connection between, their abilities and no reason explored behind why they had been blessed with these powers.
The opening page put me off Rena and Nevan slightly because of the way the reader was just left simply to believe the insta-love between the pairing. However, throughout the course of the novel I came to root for them more and more until I eventually fell for them completely - leading to a few heartbreaking moments. Other characters such as Trace and Blaze, particularly Blaze, I LOVED Blaze, were well developed. Again on Blaze, I really enjoyed her character development from just a timid sidekick to a far more respectable individual who truly held her own beside Rena in the Badlands - an interesting transition and incredibly well-written friendship.
Despite the repetitive use of 'bodink' (which, alongside 'SME' I neither understand nor could find any definition of) and a couple of areas which could have done with slightly better editing, I have to say that it was a decent read on the whole which kept me entertained for a few hours. I would certainly read a sequel and I'm sure I would enjoy it, but giving this book four stars would have put it on the same level as [b:Divergent|13335037|Divergent (Divergent, #1)|Veronica Roth|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328559506s/13335037.jpg|13155899] or [b:The Hobbit or There and Back Again|823754|The Annotated Hobbit The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again|J.R.R. Tolkien|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1204691997s/823754.jpg|10445036] according to my previous ratings - and I don't think I can justify that.
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An advanced reading copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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