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adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
0.75
This book is so bad. So bad that I exclaimed thank god when I had finally finished it. How does it have good-ish reviews? They should be in the dumps, where this book belongs. God everyone is just so unlikable. I mean seriously the only mildly likeable character is in a coma for 95% of the book.
The main character makes my skin crawl, and doesn't ever grow or learn. Just is completely disgusting, and all of the creey/violent/sexist/stalker shit he does is just never addressed or treated like a big deal in the narrative. And the rest are just one note nothings. I felt nothing for anyone, even when they were trying to get me to feel something.
The plot is just a rip of ready player one mixed with tron: legacy. I know Jason Segel watched those movies and was like, wouldn't it be cool if we mixed those, and I added a mary sue who is not at all me, but who gets this super hot high school chick? And is the One like Neo? Wouldn't that be great? Ugh. I just hated this damn book.
It was gross, weirdly sexist, so many she walked boobily descriptions I stg, and there were just no redeeming factors. None. I can't even get behind the world building. Because the different cities were cool, but they were so nebulously described that they all felt like nothing. This whole book was nothing. It's trash. I regret that I have a rule where I refuse to not finish a book because I wanted to throw this in a fire like 10 pages in.
I stg I hate myself, but I'm a completionist as well so ofc I'm going to subject myself to the sequel. Hopefully it's better than this trash, but I doubt it will be.
The main character makes my skin crawl, and doesn't ever grow or learn. Just is completely disgusting, and all of the creey/violent/sexist/stalker shit he does is just never addressed or treated like a big deal in the narrative. And the rest are just one note nothings. I felt nothing for anyone, even when they were trying to get me to feel something.
The plot is just a rip of ready player one mixed with tron: legacy. I know Jason Segel watched those movies and was like, wouldn't it be cool if we mixed those, and I added a mary sue who is not at all me, but who gets this super hot high school chick? And is the One like Neo? Wouldn't that be great? Ugh. I just hated this damn book.
It was gross, weirdly sexist, so many she walked boobily descriptions I stg, and there were just no redeeming factors. None. I can't even get behind the world building. Because the different cities were cool, but they were so nebulously described that they all felt like nothing. This whole book was nothing. It's trash. I regret that I have a rule where I refuse to not finish a book because I wanted to throw this in a fire like 10 pages in.
I stg I hate myself, but I'm a completionist as well so ofc I'm going to subject myself to the sequel. Hopefully it's better than this trash, but I doubt it will be.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Body shaming, Drug use, Vomit, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Animal death, Acephobia/Arophobia, Bullying, Cannibalism, Car accident, Chronic illness, Classism, Genocide, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Stalking, Torture, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, and War
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