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Us Dark Few

Alexis Patton

3.76 AVERAGE


UPDATE: sooo I finished The Acolyte and now I kinda imagine Takeshi looking like this

UPDATE: sooo I finished The Acolyte and now I kinda imagine Takeshi looking like this
dark mysterious 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: Yes
adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced
adventurous dark mysterious fast-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
fast-paced
adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

It’s all very “I’m 14 and this is deep”. The writing feels childish and pretentious at the same time. I tried over and over but I can’t deal with it. 
adventurous dark tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This book took the current world climate in many different aspects of our real life. Censorship, shady politics, the justice system, fake news, climate denial, nuclear war, you know the usual. And then shot it up to a dystopian future. On top of all that we have decent characters arch’s and a slow burn that was slightly confusing as to how it began but enjoyable nonetheless.

It was enjoyable with some lovely prose but it has some pacing issues and I did find it reminding me of a few other books a bit too much at times.

As like my last read, this is the debut novel for this author so again perhaps something to be said for honing once’s craft. I will read the next one because I gotta know!

But honestly it is giving early 2000s dystopian girlie vibes and that was my whole book personality for a while there so go off you badass girlie