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3.6 AVERAGE
3.6 AVERAGE
Fun read
Enjoyed the story. Liked the characters. Thought I knew where it was going, but enjoyed the switch up. Will read the second in the series.
Enjoyed the story. Liked the characters. Thought I knew where it was going, but enjoyed the switch up. Will read the second in the series.
This was a good book but it wasn’t quite good enough to get me to continue reading the series. I look for page turners and I was interested in this but I definitely wouldn’t consider it to be a page turner where I could not stop.
My great niece is reading these and loves them - possibly more than Harry Potter, she says. I will say the first has lots of action and intrigue and twists. One land ruled by women and one land ruled by men. Neither functioning healthfully. I hope them end goal is joining to work together rather than marginalizing each other.
I am a major fan of dystopian novels and the worlds created. I initially downloaded this book because it was $0.99 and it claimed that if you liked “The Hunger Games” or “Maze Runner,” you’d like this book. I did like the story, however, the writing left something to be desired. I felt as though there were spots where certain aspects of their society weren’t explained clearly enough, forcing me to reread or fill in my own blanks. Regardless, this is a classic battle of the sexes between two cities that used to be one. Matrus and Patrus, separated by Veil River are female and male driven cities respectively. Violet, the main Matrus character, is a rebellious young adult with a mean streak that finds her in trouble more than not. After hoping from one detention facility to the next, Violet is recruited by the Queen to retrieve a top-secret egg that was stolen by Patrus males. The last piece of advice Violet receives before leaving Matrus to begin her mission in Patrus is “trust no one.” That advice holds true to her journey through the very end.
Trust no one. Not even your heart. Violet sets across the river to carry out a deadly mission. Little does she know, nobody is who they appear to be.
Mehhh. I think the premise of this book is good but I felt the book to be overly descriptive at times and felt like the main character made awful choices at times that really no one would make in that scenario. I felt frustrated a lot of times with the writing and what the main character did. The end was interesting, though. Not enough to make me want to read the others in the series, but it was good.
Had a hard time getting into it, but after 50% through it get better
I had no idea what to expect. The ad for the series kept popping up so I decided to try it. WOW! Two nations against each other; one female ruled, one males ruled. Violet has spent most of her childhood in detention centers and now must work for the Queen to steal from Patrus. She works with Lee to steal back an egg. While living in Patrus she must become close with Viggo and feelings emerge. Lee catches on and starts tracking Violet, he is determined to keep her focused on the mission. In the end everything goes as planned until they get back to Matrus. Lee attempts to set up Violet but she catches him in time and he ends up dead. Now Violet has to figure out what to do next and where to go. Can’t wait to read the second book and see what happens.
Wow I loved this book. It had my gripped from the beginning to the end and I never expected the twist at the end. A really well written book.
I was pleasantly surprised after I finished this book. I assumed it was going to be another Hunger games type series, but it really is nothing of the sort. The only similarity is that the people are split up into "factions". I say this with quotes around it because in The Gender Game it's not divided into a faction, but rather gender of a person. Matrus is ran by females and Patrus is ran by males. Now, that's not to say that males can't live in Matrus and females can't live in Patrus because they can. They just won't have as many civil rights nor will they be treated as equal/well as if they were in their own gender country.
It took me a little while to connect with the main character (Violet). At first, you meet her while she is in prison, and she is a bit disconnected to the world. As the story progresses she opens up, and even though we probably haven't been in a situation like hers before you feel like you know where she's coming from.
Bella Forrest does a good job at keeping a character distant yet intriguing and making you want to know more about them, rather than disconnected and not very deep. If you read this book, you'll know what I'm talking about, but I don't want to say any more so that I don't spoil anything.
I read this very quickly, and I can't wait to get to the next one. The Gender Game is a very original idea and it's a new take on the dystopian genre. It really makes you think about today's gender discrimination and rules that are in place compared to an over the top situation like that of what Violet is in.
It took me a little while to connect with the main character (Violet). At first, you meet her while she is in prison, and she is a bit disconnected to the world. As the story progresses she opens up, and even though we probably haven't been in a situation like hers before you feel like you know where she's coming from.
Bella Forrest does a good job at keeping a character distant yet intriguing and making you want to know more about them, rather than disconnected and not very deep. If you read this book, you'll know what I'm talking about, but I don't want to say any more so that I don't spoil anything.
I read this very quickly, and I can't wait to get to the next one. The Gender Game is a very original idea and it's a new take on the dystopian genre. It really makes you think about today's gender discrimination and rules that are in place compared to an over the top situation like that of what Violet is in.