Ali Hardy Hardy itibaren 62014 Petriolo MC, Italy itibaren 62014 Petriolo MC, Italy

I'm not a big fan of Lindsey's, although I like her books enough to read whichever ones I get my hands on. In this one, you've got Tanya, a princess who was smuggled out of her country due to an ongoing blood feud that wiped out the rest of her family. Stefan, the son of the king who took over after her own father died, is her betrothed. He reluctantly comes to America looking for her, but her caretakers died when she was a baby and she got misplaced. He finds her running a tavern in Mississippi. I liked some aspects of this book. I loved the "setup" and have always enjoyed these rags-to-riches stories. However, my enjoyment was kind of ruined by just how disrespectful Stefan and his men are of Tanya. She is given no choice but to leave with them (they literally, seriously threaten to gag her and put her in a crate if she gives them trouble), and because of where they found her, they all from the start assume that she's a whore and often throw it in her face. Stefan finds her so attractive that he usually restrains himself only by avoiding her and by drinking heavily. A "real" hero should be able to stay sober without fear of ravishing his pretty prisoner. Tanya, on the other hand, just like all Lindsey's irrational heroines, is wildly attracted to Stefan even though he's really not very respectful of her and has violently kidnapped her from her home. Her attraction to him, portrayed as a natural and healthy thing, offended me.

Before Reading: I'm very glad i finally can begin to read this book, hearing things like 'better than THG' and such high rating on goodreads made me expect a more than decent dystopian story. After HP taking the gold one, THG and Unwind takes the silver and bronze medals from my point of view. Let's see if Divergent could have a place that changes the order. After Reading: I can start with saying that this book is nothing like THG. A lot of things reminded me of Matched. In Divergent, I couldn't sense that uneasy feeling when I read THG and Unwind. The world was not as rooted and realistic as in those mentioned... I once read that as a writer, you shouldn't write paragraphs and chapters that your readers might tend to skip while reading/rereading. When I think of rereading this book, I consider skipping more than half of it. Reading this book was like watching a movie while doing something else and just paying attention when things get tense. I didn't really care about training/initiation phase that takes place right after Tris' choosing. The initiation was just some fun to open shiny package to get to the chocolate bar. And when you get to it you just taste and finish at the same time. Taste was good but it didn't last. And after all that reading and the preparation phase the story kinda unravels very quickly and thnigs that should take more focus and therefore more word count are wrapped up very sloppily and they are rushed to an end. Because of this, I couldn't really connect with Tris. It felt like I only read some kind of plot summary. I don't know if this is SPOILER but, The faction she chooses is like crazy unsupervised kids running and hopping around and in spare time they get to paint their bodies and put some accessories on their bodies. The black clothing and all underground thing felt like pushing it to be darker and in some way reminding creatures of night like well 'a vampire!' If this was a rip off of THG I would have liked it more. As an original work of creative writing this book offers nothing readers (like me) would care about. It doesn't change the way you think, it doesn't inspire, it doesn't put anything more to dystopias or YA novels. The book is finished right where 'more than average' is started.