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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Everyone needs to read this duology at least once in their life, a gripping tale that just does not let you put the book down. Thrilling from beginning to end indeed.
First of all, I assumed this was a trilogy and it's obviously a duology. Part of me feels like that's stupid, like everything being resolved so quickly is ridiculous. Part of me feels like if they had just gone and got the damn footage and then aired it immediately it would have been done even quicker.
Why not take the footage directly to Enya Sleepwell and air it right then and there? Why try to strike a deal with Sanchez anyway? What was the point. Obviously it all worked out with your "Plan B" Celestine, I'm not sure why it wasn't your "Plan A."
Quick refresher/you read the first one but don't wanna read the second so you're scouring Goodreads to find a synopsis?been there. Celestine is turned on by Sanchez, who was saying she would help her, and ended up in the custody of the guild. Sanchez is thought to have the only copy of the tape showing what Crevan did to Celestine, but it turns out Celestine had it all planned so that if Sanchez did turn on her, the tape would still get released at 6pm and everyone would see it. The whole thing just seemed unnecessary to me, but I did like Celestine's little speech about how Sanchez shouldn't have trusted her, because she is a "Flawed", after all.
The way things all fall into place is absolutely atrocious. Yes, people would be disgusted seeing Crevan brand Celestine. Yes, people would hate him, some would hate the guild, some already had. It's likely that Sleepwell would get elected coming off something like that. But for it to be 2 months later and everything abolished and solved with little to no arguement seems ridiculous. You're telling me after all this, after the way everyone treated Flawed people, all the people who loved watching them walk to their court hearings and brandings, Judge Crevans reputation was basically the only thing standing in the way of overturning the entire guild, that no one would fight it? Puh-lease.
Anyway, that wasn't the only moment in this book that had me going "what the fuck?" Celestine, on several occasions, does things that make no sense. When in Mary Mays backyard, attempting to retrieve the footage from her garage, she sees Mary Mays mother and chooses to voluntarily go and make her presence known to her. When she is offered a deal that will not only give her freedom but make what Crevan did completely public, something that could (and does) change the way of life of everyone around her for the better, she refuses it because it won't free her boyfriend. Her boyfriend who, by the way, her relationship becomes even weirder with in this book. But I'll get to that in a minute. Somehow, even though she makes dumb choices, luck seems to always be on her side. I'm not saying she's a useless protagonist- she gives good speeches and she does evade the people she has to for the most part, but when you look at it, she actually gets very lucky and is pretty dependent on everyone around her. At one point in the book she says how "nothing has been easy" but let's look at the evidence: her grandfather sticks his neck out for her, keeping her on his land despite the trouble it could bring in, she is almost caught but it just so happens that the one whistleblower who sees her there is "one of the good ones." Carrick finds her, she goes with him, gets screwed over again by someone she thinks she can trust, and is saved by a hidden hatch beneath her feet that someone lets her into. Every time you think something is going wrong for this girl, something that honestly is sometimes unbelievable happens to get her out of it. Her boyfriend, sister and previously mentioned "good one whistleblower" sneak into a highly guarded facility and break her out simply by disguising themselves. You're telling me this facility doesn't want to see ID or even just faces before they let people in and out? All of this bothered me, I could feel my Goodreads star rating decrease every single time. While you know your heroine can't end up completely fucked in order for the book to end the way you'd like, it would be nice if it was a little harder for her to get out of these situations, or if the way she gets out was more realistic.
Now onto the boyfriend. What was that with them suddenly all over eachother while sitting in a fridge eating jellybeans? And then they just have sex, okay, because she trusts him above everyone else, she loses her virginity to him after a few actual conversations. And I like Carrick, I do, but the writing for their relationship felt so damn rushed.
I read the book and I read it quick, it did its job, I've been a reading slump for over a month and I finally read something. I obviously enjoyed it to some extent or that wouldn't have happened. But so many things in this bugged me and it simply was not as good as the first. Got me through two long airplane flights though, and it's not the first time Cecelia Ahern has done that for me. Respect.
Why not take the footage directly to Enya Sleepwell and air it right then and there? Why try to strike a deal with Sanchez anyway? What was the point. Obviously it all worked out with your "Plan B" Celestine, I'm not sure why it wasn't your "Plan A."
Quick refresher/you read the first one but don't wanna read the second so you're scouring Goodreads to find a synopsis?been there. Celestine is turned on by Sanchez, who was saying she would help her, and ended up in the custody of the guild. Sanchez is thought to have the only copy of the tape showing what Crevan did to Celestine, but it turns out Celestine had it all planned so that if Sanchez did turn on her, the tape would still get released at 6pm and everyone would see it. The whole thing just seemed unnecessary to me, but I did like Celestine's little speech about how Sanchez shouldn't have trusted her, because she is a "Flawed", after all.
The way things all fall into place is absolutely atrocious. Yes, people would be disgusted seeing Crevan brand Celestine. Yes, people would hate him, some would hate the guild, some already had. It's likely that Sleepwell would get elected coming off something like that. But for it to be 2 months later and everything abolished and solved with little to no arguement seems ridiculous. You're telling me after all this, after the way everyone treated Flawed people, all the people who loved watching them walk to their court hearings and brandings, Judge Crevans reputation was basically the only thing standing in the way of overturning the entire guild, that no one would fight it? Puh-lease.
Anyway, that wasn't the only moment in this book that had me going "what the fuck?" Celestine, on several occasions, does things that make no sense. When in Mary Mays backyard, attempting to retrieve the footage from her garage, she sees Mary Mays mother and chooses to voluntarily go and make her presence known to her. When she is offered a deal that will not only give her freedom but make what Crevan did completely public, something that could (and does) change the way of life of everyone around her for the better, she refuses it because it won't free her boyfriend. Her boyfriend who, by the way, her relationship becomes even weirder with in this book. But I'll get to that in a minute. Somehow, even though she makes dumb choices, luck seems to always be on her side. I'm not saying she's a useless protagonist- she gives good speeches and she does evade the people she has to for the most part, but when you look at it, she actually gets very lucky and is pretty dependent on everyone around her. At one point in the book she says how "nothing has been easy" but let's look at the evidence: her grandfather sticks his neck out for her, keeping her on his land despite the trouble it could bring in, she is almost caught but it just so happens that the one whistleblower who sees her there is "one of the good ones." Carrick finds her, she goes with him, gets screwed over again by someone she thinks she can trust, and is saved by a hidden hatch beneath her feet that someone lets her into. Every time you think something is going wrong for this girl, something that honestly is sometimes unbelievable happens to get her out of it. Her boyfriend, sister and previously mentioned "good one whistleblower" sneak into a highly guarded facility and break her out simply by disguising themselves. You're telling me this facility doesn't want to see ID or even just faces before they let people in and out? All of this bothered me, I could feel my Goodreads star rating decrease every single time. While you know your heroine can't end up completely fucked in order for the book to end the way you'd like, it would be nice if it was a little harder for her to get out of these situations, or if the way she gets out was more realistic.
Now onto the boyfriend. What was that with them suddenly all over eachother while sitting in a fridge eating jellybeans? And then they just have sex, okay, because she trusts him above everyone else, she loses her virginity to him after a few actual conversations. And I like Carrick, I do, but the writing for their relationship felt so damn rushed.
I read the book and I read it quick, it did its job, I've been a reading slump for over a month and I finally read something. I obviously enjoyed it to some extent or that wouldn't have happened. But so many things in this bugged me and it simply was not as good as the first. Got me through two long airplane flights though, and it's not the first time Cecelia Ahern has done that for me. Respect.
Ahhhh it was just so good!!!!!
There were so many ways that this book could have gone and I’m so glad it wrapped up the way that it did. Celestine’s story just took on a life of its own in this book. Her fights with herself, with Carrick were so real and raw. Her power and bravery that helps her in times of need, the love and support from her family were so well portrayed.
I honestly loved this book, it was so well done and so well written that I never wanted to put it down and I thought about it constantly when I had to do something else that wasn’t read this magnificent book! I’m so happy that I finally read this duology that has been sitting on a my shelf for forever and I’m now kicking myself that I didn’t read it sooner.
There were so many ways that this book could have gone and I’m so glad it wrapped up the way that it did. Celestine’s story just took on a life of its own in this book. Her fights with herself, with Carrick were so real and raw. Her power and bravery that helps her in times of need, the love and support from her family were so well portrayed.
I honestly loved this book, it was so well done and so well written that I never wanted to put it down and I thought about it constantly when I had to do something else that wasn’t read this magnificent book! I’m so happy that I finally read this duology that has been sitting on a my shelf for forever and I’m now kicking myself that I didn’t read it sooner.
adventurous
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
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:
Complicated
Due for release in April 2017 I am indebted to Macmillan publishers and NetGalley for allowing me to read an advance of this much-awaited sequel...and now cross that I have to wait months until I can discuss it with people!
Fuller review to come later.
What I will say is, if you loved 'Flawed' then you don't be disappointed. 'Perfect' brings things together and will leave me with some very powerful images (branding and double-crossing characters spring immediately to mind).
In this foray into YA fiction I think Ahern has created a powerful story, whose message is timeless.
Fuller review to come later.
What I will say is, if you loved 'Flawed' then you don't be disappointed. 'Perfect' brings things together and will leave me with some very powerful images (branding and double-crossing characters spring immediately to mind).
In this foray into YA fiction I think Ahern has created a powerful story, whose message is timeless.