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nickoliver's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Thanks to some BookTube videos I watched, I got the idea of a reading challenge for myself: reading the first five books on my Goodreads Want-to-Read shelf that I also already owned. Those books had been on there since July 2014, and while I didn't own them quite as long, I still found it exciting to finally pick them up. "What's Left of Me" was the first one that I decided to read.
Overall, it was pretty much what I expected. Being a dystopian YA novel from 2012, I knew it wouldn't blow me away and pretty much keep to a generic formula. The characters were severely underdeveloped, especially the love interest (no idea why there had to be a romance in the first place, even if I figured it would be coming), so that I mostly just found them annoying.
The world-building made me feel weird - it was pretty xenophobic and ableist, but without actually taking it apart. There was no nuance to it. As a queer person, I also would've been interested in an exploration of the hybrid's sexualities and genders - would they always have the same ones? And what would happen if they didn't? - but again, this came out in 2012, so I knew that wouldn't happen.
All in all, this was fine. It was very surface-level and had little development in anything - characters, world, you name it -, and the writing was very juvenile at times. It was mostly what I expected from a book I was interested in as a teen.
Overall, it was pretty much what I expected. Being a dystopian YA novel from 2012, I knew it wouldn't blow me away and pretty much keep to a generic formula. The characters were severely underdeveloped, especially the love interest (no idea why there had to be a romance in the first place, even if I figured it would be coming), so that I mostly just found them annoying.
The world-building made me feel weird - it was pretty xenophobic and ableist, but without actually taking it apart. There was no nuance to it. As a queer person, I also would've been interested in an exploration of the hybrid's sexualities and genders - would they always have the same ones? And what would happen if they didn't? - but again, this came out in 2012, so I knew that wouldn't happen.
All in all, this was fine. It was very surface-level and had little development in anything - characters, world, you name it -, and the writing was very juvenile at times. It was mostly what I expected from a book I was interested in as a teen.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Medical trauma, Confinement, and Ableism
nyoom's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
0.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Torture, Violence, Vomit, and Xenophobia
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