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Survive the Dome by Kosoko Jackson

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sarahsbookstacks's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense 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? No

4.5

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amandalorianxo's review against another edition

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challenging dark hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This felt a little Hunger Games esque in terms of plot and intention. Jamal is a seventeen year old who lives in Maryland. He is attending a BLM protest & wants to take footage of what is going on. Unfortunately, he’s stuck when an alarm rings to let the people of Baltimore know there would be a Dome set in place. No one can go in, no one can go out. The Dome itself is a milky white outline that prevents any electronic communication from happening. Jamal soon meets two other people as they try to figure out how to collapse this dome. The diversity - a black gay male character, two Latinx main characters (one is also not straight) was great but I could have done without the mini romance storyline. I also felt like the ending was a little too clean & could have been cut by a hundred ish pages. A lot of unnecessary filler & word repetition.

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1quillb's review against another edition

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tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

This book has a really good idea attached to it, but was executed very poorly. The editing needs some work—at one point Marco is referred to as Jamal by the narrator, and there’s a couple strange spellings of words—and the whole idea isn’t very believable. If a giant impenetrable dome surrounded a city and martial law went into affect, things like clubs and hotels wouldn’t still be open. That’s just not realistic. It would be like the Purge, not a regular Tuesday. I appreciate what Jackson was trying to do, it just wasn’t written in a way that made sense.

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schnurln's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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readalongwithnat's review against another edition

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5.0

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noahelijah's review against another edition

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adventurous tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.25

The idea really intrigued me and this was a really anticipated release for me.
Sadly I’m a bit disappointed… I liked reading a very plot driven, fast paced book for once since I usually like to read more character driven books. But this was hard for me to go through. I didn’t connect to the characters at all. I do like Jamal and his thoughts and motivations but after the fourth time of him telling us, he wants to become a journalist I just couldn’t help getting a bit annoyed, because I got it! Anyways I like the concept but couldn’t feel any chemistry between any characters. Not just the romance but also platonic characters. I felt like there was so much potential for some relationships that weren’t explored later on. And it left me feeling like I don’t even get why these characters were introduced. The fast pacing turned into rushing towards the ending, which was surprising not in a positive way.

I really wanted to enjoy this but I hoped for more.

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