Marie
Better paced than Uglies and still an easy YA read, but the Pretty-speak nearly broke me. Tally’s still exhausting and making all the wrong choices, the drama’s all over the place, and only a few twists actually land / are unexpected.
That Pretty-speak is brutal. I know it’s supposed to be part of the world-building, but after a few chapters I was ready to throw the book across the room.
Tally still got entitled pick-me energy, even post-op. She insists she’s a courageous independent woman that did everything herself while basically everyone else is doing the heavy lifting and helping her every time she whines.
The plot is wild in that “bad fanfic” kind of way: identical pills with completely different effects (and no directions?!), Tally somehow curing her lobotomy because she’s just so special, and a few turns that are anything but subtle.
I’ll admit there are moments where it actually works, like the chapters in the nature reserve, where the pace slows down and you get a little more world building. The bigger world, the Specials, the Savages, the creepy social engineering still has me curious for book three. I just hope the Pretty-speak gets toned down because I can’t stand another page of it.
Better paced than Uglies and still an easy YA read, but the Pretty-speak nearly broke me. Tally’s still exhausting and making all the wrong choices, the drama’s all over the place, and only a few twists actually land / are unexpected.
That Pretty-speak is brutal. I know it’s supposed to be part of the world-building, but after a few chapters I was ready to throw the book across the room.
Tally still got entitled pick-me energy, even post-op. She insists she’s a courageous independent woman that did everything herself while basically everyone else is doing the heavy lifting and helping her every time she whines.
The plot is wild in that “bad fanfic” kind of way: identical pills with completely different effects (and no directions?!), Tally somehow curing her lobotomy because she’s just so special, and a few turns that are anything but subtle.
I’ll admit there are moments where it actually works, like the chapters in the nature reserve, where the pace slows down and you get a little more world building. The bigger world, the Specials, the Savages, the creepy social engineering still has me curious for book three. I just hope the Pretty-speak gets toned down because I can’t stand another page of it.