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3.55 AVERAGE
3.55 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
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
Not at all like The hunger games. Badly built up background story, extreme and needless violence and shallow characters. Chiyoko was interesting, so I'll give it two stars.
The initial premise of this novel was fantastic and, initially, I was hooked. It’s a ruthless battle of brains and brawn to save everyone you know and love at any costs. What’s not exciting there? I mean, The Hunger Games is an international phenomenon for a reason. Plus, James Frey is one of the writers behind my one of my all-time favourites, the Lorien Legacies series.
Alas, the excitement was short-lived. While the idea was great and gripping, there was so much focus on the all-American Sarah Alopay and her ally Jago Tlaloc. Twelve characters from all over the world and with diverse thoughts, feelings and personalities and we get stuck with the girl who spends most of thendgame_insidee book complaining about her ‘normal life’ being disrupted (Endgame begins, conveniently, on the day of her graduation from high school). While all of the characters are followed, it is only briefly in the lead-up to a great revelation and then cuts off. There is not much room for development, plus they are separated so much that it’s difficult to really understand what’s happening to them. To top it off, the whole timeframe didn’t make sense to me. It jumps around so much that it got a bit difficult to organise what was happening when.
It also gets rather repetitive. Most of the time, the only explanation given for anything is a dramatic “This is Endgame”. At first, it was pretty effective and I bought it. But it was used so frequently as the story progressed that it lost all meaning. Plus there was Sarah’s pining for her old life and Chiyoko Takeda’s constant reminders to herself to be patient.
Besides Sarah and Jago , Chiyoko is probably the next frequently seen character. Although this was okay with me. Chiyoko is a Player of the Mu line, and a mute. Her use of silence is her greatest weapon and I loved seeing that used at key moments, particularly seeing her perspective of other characters’ actions.
And of course, there’s the fight scenes. Of which there are many. But they are so specific and so calculated, that it, again, loses its effectiveness. There is a wide mix of sentence and paragraph lengths, but the fight scenes are so long and so in-depth that it makes them difficult to follow and I found myself just skimming through. It really felt like ‘this person jumped in and hey did this and then they did this. This person did this to counter that. Then this happen’ and it just got far too long to follow and, really quite boring.
Each player is given a clue by the possibly extraterrestrial beings that created Endgame and there is a lot of puzzles for the characters to unravel. One nice touch with this is that the book itself it filled with a variety of different puzzles, with a prize for the person who completes them all. It does add some more depth to the story, in a way.
The premise was good, great in fact, but the execution did not pull it off. I haven’t even gone into detail by how disgusted I felt with the use of “asexual” to be synonymous with robotic. That being said, I won’t rule out reading the sequel, Sky Key, just yet.
Originally posted on my blog Silver Screen.
Alas, the excitement was short-lived. While the idea was great and gripping, there was so much focus on the all-American Sarah Alopay and her ally Jago Tlaloc. Twelve characters from all over the world and with diverse thoughts, feelings and personalities and we get stuck with the girl who spends most of thendgame_insidee book complaining about her ‘normal life’ being disrupted (Endgame begins, conveniently, on the day of her graduation from high school). While all of the characters are followed, it is only briefly in the lead-up to a great revelation and then cuts off. There is not much room for development, plus they are separated so much that it’s difficult to really understand what’s happening to them. To top it off, the whole timeframe didn’t make sense to me. It jumps around so much that it got a bit difficult to organise what was happening when.
It also gets rather repetitive. Most of the time, the only explanation given for anything is a dramatic “This is Endgame”. At first, it was pretty effective and I bought it. But it was used so frequently as the story progressed that it lost all meaning. Plus there was Sarah’s pining for her old life and Chiyoko Takeda’s constant reminders to herself to be patient.
Besides Sarah and Jago , Chiyoko is probably the next frequently seen character. Although this was okay with me. Chiyoko is a Player of the Mu line, and a mute. Her use of silence is her greatest weapon and I loved seeing that used at key moments, particularly seeing her perspective of other characters’ actions.
And of course, there’s the fight scenes. Of which there are many. But they are so specific and so calculated, that it, again, loses its effectiveness. There is a wide mix of sentence and paragraph lengths, but the fight scenes are so long and so in-depth that it makes them difficult to follow and I found myself just skimming through. It really felt like ‘this person jumped in and hey did this and then they did this. This person did this to counter that. Then this happen’ and it just got far too long to follow and, really quite boring.
Each player is given a clue by the possibly extraterrestrial beings that created Endgame and there is a lot of puzzles for the characters to unravel. One nice touch with this is that the book itself it filled with a variety of different puzzles, with a prize for the person who completes them all. It does add some more depth to the story, in a way.
The premise was good, great in fact, but the execution did not pull it off. I haven’t even gone into detail by how disgusted I felt with the use of “asexual” to be synonymous with robotic. That being said, I won’t rule out reading the sequel, Sky Key, just yet.
Originally posted on my blog Silver Screen.
No tengo idea de por qué pero Jago es mi personaje favorito y necesito seguir leyendo cómo patea traseros.
¡Necesito el segundo ya!
¡Necesito el segundo ya!
it's different and unique. i had a good time reading it... but it was not really that excellent. so, 3 star.
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
A very unique and fun format. This book definitely keeps your attention and the story line is easy to follow. Im not typically an end-of-the-world, conspiracy theory person but i could get into this series. Im giving it four stars tho because I didnt rush thru it and i finished it way too soon! The chapters needed a little more meat on them.