ali-hardy33

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.

2022-12-17 12:35