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Siega

Neal Shusterman

4.28 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
adventurous dark slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

it was hard to get into at the beginning, but picked up pace as it went along. By the end it had me completely enthralled with a lot of unexpected twists and turns
adventurous informative inspiring slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I'll never forgive what they did to Shawn.
challenging dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Loved it! Such a cool premise 
adventurous dark emotional tense slow-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: Complicated

I haven't torn through a book this quickly in quite a while. The concept is compelling and thought provoking and I was invested in all of the main characters and political maneuvering. Not quite 5 stars because I just needed a little more detail about the world. How do they decide how many people need culled? Why the hell is there not some kind of age minimum? Is the purpose population control or instilling some small sense of mortality? If it's the former, this system would have almost no effect on the exponential growth caused by people having multiple generations of children without ever dying, and their children doing the same, and their children doing the same. The concept of a post death and aging world is really fascinating and I just wish the author had dug a tiny bit deeper with the idea.
tense medium-paced
dark reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No