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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
It wasn't what I expected from a dystopian, it was more love based and a bit slow. I like my dystopian to be action packed and fade paced. It's not I didn't like the book, I was not in the mood for it.
This was a really good book!! But I haven't heard the best things about the rest of the series so I'm keeping my fingers crossed as I continue to read.
This is a high 3 and I definitely took more than one day to read this lol. Solid 3.5 really. Won’t be continuing the series cuz I just didn’t care enough about the characters really.
dark
emotional
tense
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
I am not the target audience anymore- i read this book years ago, but now that I'm closer to 40 than 30, its hard to get fully into a book about teenagers. Overall, great writing and story! A little too much Romeo-and-Juliet-die-for-love. Ends on a major cliff hanger
This was an incredibly beautiful writing style! On to book two!
Oh my goodness. Wow. I randomly downloaded this a few hours ago on a whim after seeing a blog post about it and was sucked in. What an ending. What a world the writer built. What a sad world. What beautiful passages about two young people falling in love. I think the last page was my favorite bit of the entire book. I loved the characters, especially Alex. I'm sad the time passed so quickly, but I couldn't stop reading...
Un distopico medio, che presenta tutti i clichè del genere ma non emerge dalla massa, non ha caratteristiche così particolari da essere ricordato e da farmi correre a leggere il seguito
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An average dystopian novel, which has all the clichés of the genre but does not emerge from the crowd, it does not have such particular characteristics to be remembered. I will not read the subsequent books
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An average dystopian novel, which has all the clichés of the genre but does not emerge from the crowd, it does not have such particular characteristics to be remembered. I will not read the subsequent books
TOG Score: 4
Plot: 3/5
Language: 4/5
Spice: 5/5
Entertainment: 4/5
Overall:
Plot: Kind of a basic plot and a little predictable
Langue: a few curse words here and there
Spice: zero spice (some kissing but no sex especially because they were teens)
Entertainment: very entertaining. I didn’t want to stop reading it
I went into the book a little cynical because of my own relationship troubles. I thought how cliche a book about falling in love when you can’t. But boy was I wrong. Yes she falls in love. Anyone with any critical thinking skills would have picked up on that, but this book is so much more than. The author did an amazing job in world building from explaining how it feels to be in love to adding distorted verses from the Bible. I loved that. The beginning I thought it was going to be a similar story to Uglies (another great dystopian novel), but it veers into a completely different direction. This book left me thinking about all of the beautiful and painful things associated with love. I also left thinking about the beauty in choices. As someone who has been in unlucky in love, the idea of these choices being made for you sounds enticing, but true happiness comes from being chosen and choosing for yourself. Very good book.
Plot: 3/5
Language: 4/5
Spice: 5/5
Entertainment: 4/5
Overall:
Plot: Kind of a basic plot and a little predictable
Langue: a few curse words here and there
Spice: zero spice (some kissing but no sex especially because they were teens)
Entertainment: very entertaining. I didn’t want to stop reading it
I went into the book a little cynical because of my own relationship troubles. I thought how cliche a book about falling in love when you can’t. But boy was I wrong. Yes she falls in love. Anyone with any critical thinking skills would have picked up on that, but this book is so much more than. The author did an amazing job in world building from explaining how it feels to be in love to adding distorted verses from the Bible. I loved that. The beginning I thought it was going to be a similar story to Uglies (another great dystopian novel), but it veers into a completely different direction. This book left me thinking about all of the beautiful and painful things associated with love. I also left thinking about the beauty in choices. As someone who has been in unlucky in love, the idea of these choices being made for you sounds enticing, but true happiness comes from being chosen and choosing for yourself. Very good book.
What a stunningly beautiful book. It is so simple and pure and well, beautiful. I've heard that the second book complicates matters but if you take it as a book, I don't think that I would have been unhappy if it had just been a standalone book.
I like Lauren Oliver's style. Sometimes the best stories are the simple ones where everything is the same apart from one small change - in this case the fact that love is seen as a disease. And it is something I think that anyone who has fallen in love can understand. I found myself smiling tightly at the symptoms of love and the pain that comes along hand in hand with it. I think many of us have laid awake at night wishing that we could extinguish that part of us that feels so deeply.
That said, the concern of Lena's aunt and uncle confused me - why were they so concerned? If the guardians of someone who had the disease where dealt with harshly, maybe I could understand it, but it didn't seem that this happened - there might be the humiliation but it seemed to be quite common that under 18s would experiment 'inappropriately' - so why try and prevent someone from experiencing something when without love, you cannot possibly care about what happens to them. If they are as detached as they are meant to be, why are they bothered about Lena? Is it guilt? And here's my question - are love and guilt mutually exclusive? Why do we feel guilty? It surely must be because we love or we don't want to let people down. Very interesting philosophical questions.
I can't find much to fault about Lena. And I adore Alex. That boy is something special. I loved the excerpts at the beginning of each chapter - both from 'real' books and books from the world that had been created. Take it from someone with a cold dead heart - this is a beautiful book that will make your own cold dead heart try to beat again.
I like Lauren Oliver's style. Sometimes the best stories are the simple ones where everything is the same apart from one small change - in this case the fact that love is seen as a disease. And it is something I think that anyone who has fallen in love can understand. I found myself smiling tightly at the symptoms of love and the pain that comes along hand in hand with it. I think many of us have laid awake at night wishing that we could extinguish that part of us that feels so deeply.
That said, the concern of Lena's aunt and uncle confused me - why were they so concerned? If the guardians of someone who had the disease where dealt with harshly, maybe I could understand it, but it didn't seem that this happened - there might be the humiliation but it seemed to be quite common that under 18s would experiment 'inappropriately' - so why try and prevent someone from experiencing something when without love, you cannot possibly care about what happens to them. If they are as detached as they are meant to be, why are they bothered about Lena? Is it guilt? And here's my question - are love and guilt mutually exclusive? Why do we feel guilty? It surely must be because we love or we don't want to let people down. Very interesting philosophical questions.
I can't find much to fault about Lena. And I adore Alex. That boy is something special. I loved the excerpts at the beginning of each chapter - both from 'real' books and books from the world that had been created. Take it from someone with a cold dead heart - this is a beautiful book that will make your own cold dead heart try to beat again.