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beccasbooks234's review against another edition
adventurous
2.5
I got this book mainly for two reasons: the authors and the cover image. My guilty pleasure is watching the Kardashians reality tv show and Kendall and Kylie are close to my age so I found it cool that they wrote a book, even with other people.
The cover art is, to me, very pretty. I’m always attracted to artwork that has eyes for some reason!
I struggled a bit to finish the book, though. Especially in the beginning. It did pick up towards the end, but I was also left with questions that weren’t answered by the ending.
The cover art is, to me, very pretty. I’m always attracted to artwork that has eyes for some reason!
I struggled a bit to finish the book, though. Especially in the beginning. It did pick up towards the end, but I was also left with questions that weren’t answered by the ending.
juliettee_x's review against another edition
adventurous
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
This is one of those books that had I'd have read when I was 12/13 I probably would've loved. I was a huge Kardashians/Jenner's fan from 2012 - 2015 and embarrassingly bought all their books, this being one of them. Anyway, I was decluttering and wanted to get rid of this but had never actually read it when it came out, so I wanted to give it a go before getting rid of it. I was already a bit put off that it was ghost written and the dystopian y/a genre is not really my thing anymore, being aged 22 when I read it. I found the book to be way too longer than it needed to be. It felt like a good concept but it just wasn't executed well, I think it could've made a decent short film, rather than a 350 page book (with a sequel book). The pacing wasn't amazing, the plot would be really interesting for one chapter than flip to the other sisters POV where the plot line was slow and boring. There was also a lot of plot holes in it and the characters were very "I'm not like other girls" which made them very annoying. It wasn't the worst book I've ever read but I probably wouldn't recommend it.
Hardback, owned.
Hardback, owned.
nooreo's review
whatever they paid kylie & kendall’s ghost writer (maya sloan), it was not enough.
(read this approx 2014-2015)
(read this approx 2014-2015)
sandraselvas's review
1.0
BEFORE READING:
Media guru on twitter: "The Jenner sisters wrote a YA dystopia!!!"
Me: Who?
Kind random stranger on twitter: Kim Kardashian's youngest sisters.
Me:
Okay, Isadly obviously know who the Kardashians are, but was a bit lost with the "Jenner" last name. Whatever, who cares? They are the same family.
I don't want to sound mean or whatsoever with what I am about to say, but it's obvious these girls didn't write the book. Maybe there's a ghost author? Man, I don't know. I just know that any celebrity nowadays can be published and it fucking pisses me off.
YES, I will read this, out of curiosity and if it happens to be any good, I promise I will apologize publicly... But that's unlikely.
AFTER READING:
No apologies from me will be issued. No more comments.
Media guru on twitter: "The Jenner sisters wrote a YA dystopia!!!"
Me: Who?
Kind random stranger on twitter: Kim Kardashian's youngest sisters.
Me:
Okay, I
I don't want to sound mean or whatsoever with what I am about to say, but it's obvious these girls didn't write the book. Maybe there's a ghost author? Man, I don't know. I just know that any celebrity nowadays can be published and it fucking pisses me off.
YES, I will read this, out of curiosity and if it happens to be any good, I promise I will apologize publicly... But that's unlikely.
AFTER READING:
No apologies from me will be issued. No more comments.
megwithbooks's review
1.0
vlog coming on sunday.... holy shit i hate myself for doing this to myself goodnight
raequigley's review against another edition
4.0
Actual Rating: 3.5 stars
Before we get into the nitty gritty of the review, we need to discuss something. I was walking through Target last week when I saw this book sitting by itself on a shelf. The cover is what drew me in. I thought it was gorgeous (I have a thing for this color blue and I was drawn in by the eye) and then I saw the “authors” were Kendall and Kylie Jenner. I texted my best friend a picture of the cover saying, “Look how pretty the Jenner girls’ book is!!” and she promptly said “Yeah but it probably sucks”. Everyone on Goodreads had the same thing to say. “Well clearly since it has two Kardashian kids names on it then it must be shit. And obviously they didn’t actually write it! They’re just trying to take credit!!”. I was so royally pissed off. I mean, sure. There was a good chance that this book wouldn’t be great. There was also a 99.9% chance that the book was written by a ghostwriter (which it was). But to judge the book so harshly without actually reading it is just so morally wrong in my opinion. Yes, it sucks that the Jenners are getting credit for an idea they may or may not have even come up with. But by rating it a 1 without reading it…. by shit talking it without giving it a chance…. you’re not doing anything negative to the Jenner girls, you’re doing it to the people that actually wrote the book. By putting the Jenners on the book, perhaps this was a way for a great author to make a living writing? It’s also very possible that the girls did have more to do with the book than just the idea. So in that moment, as I was walking through the Target aisles and reading “reviews” of the book on my Goodreads app, I decided I was going to buy the book. I was going to buy the book and I was going to read it and provide an honest and unbiased review because I have no time for bitches that are going to rate something poorly just because of a name on the cover, and no one else should tolerate that shit either.
Now, for that unbiased review….. I liked it. I genuinely liked the book, the characters, the setting. I didn’t love it, and it wasn’t the best book I’ve ever read. In fact, I would say it was just above mediocre. It was slow in the beginning, and I found myself being bored and slightly confused. This is dual perspective, which we all know I can’t stand, and it was jumping around a lot. I felt like the authors (the real author, Maya Sloan) were trying too hard to write well. It was like she knew/thought she needed to overcompensate for the fact that a celebrity was going to be publishing it. The first few chapters were a little hard to get through, but toward the middle of the book I realized I was hooked. I was invested in the characters and what would happen to them. There was a love triangle, and one line of that triangle was insta-love which was annoying. But I was pulling for the other side of the triangle, the one where the two characters basically grew up together. Then there were some predictable moments, but there were also several twists that I did not at all see coming.
Other than a few mishaps here and there, the book was really great. Yes, there were a lot of aspects of it that seemed “borrowed” from other popular young adult series, but I feel like they were utilized in a way that progressed the story. A few times along the way I thought of other series, but not enough that it was a bad thing. A lot of books remind me of other books. I really liked the message it was sending to girls. Here was this rich, beautiful young girl that could have any boy she wanted. All she had to do was smile pretty and dress well and speak when she was spoken too, but that wasn’t enough for Livia Cosmo. She wanted to ride her horse and think for herself. She liked to get her feet dirty and she knew how to kick ass with a sword. She was bored with being shallow and vapid. She wasn’t really like that, and she fought against it, and it made me love her. The other character, Lex, was an orphan. Deemed unworthy by society and told that she would fail. She fought, she fought against oppression and she fought to succeed. She did not let where she came from dictate where she was going.
I felt like the story was intriguing. I wanted to learn more about how the world had become like this, and I am looking forward to the sequel. Like I said, it was not the best book I’ve ever read, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I had no problems getting through it, and it does not deserve NEARLY the amount of shit it is receiving from people on the Internet.
UPDATE: ACCORDING TO CRUSHABLE/LA TIMES-
“Along with their creative director Elizabeth Killmond-Roman, the Jenners created a broad two-page outline describing the futuristic tale about two girls with superpowers who are secretly twins. Sloan was hired to execute that vision, using Kendall and Kylie as inspiration for the book’s protagonists. The sisters took her along with them to New York Fashion Week and let her hang in their hotel room while they texted their friends.”
I stand by what I say. And I stand by Maya’s take on it as well, “I’ve learned to check my ego. Ego will get you a teaching job in Iowa grading freshman comp papers, or a 9-to-5 editing promotional material where you want to slit your wrists. I’m writing for a living, and it’s a gift to be a working writer.”
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Before we get into the nitty gritty of the review, we need to discuss something. I was walking through Target last week when I saw this book sitting by itself on a shelf. The cover is what drew me in. I thought it was gorgeous (I have a thing for this color blue and I was drawn in by the eye) and then I saw the “authors” were Kendall and Kylie Jenner. I texted my best friend a picture of the cover saying, “Look how pretty the Jenner girls’ book is!!” and she promptly said “Yeah but it probably sucks”. Everyone on Goodreads had the same thing to say. “Well clearly since it has two Kardashian kids names on it then it must be shit. And obviously they didn’t actually write it! They’re just trying to take credit!!”. I was so royally pissed off. I mean, sure. There was a good chance that this book wouldn’t be great. There was also a 99.9% chance that the book was written by a ghostwriter (which it was). But to judge the book so harshly without actually reading it is just so morally wrong in my opinion. Yes, it sucks that the Jenners are getting credit for an idea they may or may not have even come up with. But by rating it a 1 without reading it…. by shit talking it without giving it a chance…. you’re not doing anything negative to the Jenner girls, you’re doing it to the people that actually wrote the book. By putting the Jenners on the book, perhaps this was a way for a great author to make a living writing? It’s also very possible that the girls did have more to do with the book than just the idea. So in that moment, as I was walking through the Target aisles and reading “reviews” of the book on my Goodreads app, I decided I was going to buy the book. I was going to buy the book and I was going to read it and provide an honest and unbiased review because I have no time for bitches that are going to rate something poorly just because of a name on the cover, and no one else should tolerate that shit either.
Now, for that unbiased review….. I liked it. I genuinely liked the book, the characters, the setting. I didn’t love it, and it wasn’t the best book I’ve ever read. In fact, I would say it was just above mediocre. It was slow in the beginning, and I found myself being bored and slightly confused. This is dual perspective, which we all know I can’t stand, and it was jumping around a lot. I felt like the authors (the real author, Maya Sloan) were trying too hard to write well. It was like she knew/thought she needed to overcompensate for the fact that a celebrity was going to be publishing it. The first few chapters were a little hard to get through, but toward the middle of the book I realized I was hooked. I was invested in the characters and what would happen to them. There was a love triangle, and one line of that triangle was insta-love which was annoying. But I was pulling for the other side of the triangle, the one where the two characters basically grew up together. Then there were some predictable moments, but there were also several twists that I did not at all see coming.
Other than a few mishaps here and there, the book was really great. Yes, there were a lot of aspects of it that seemed “borrowed” from other popular young adult series, but I feel like they were utilized in a way that progressed the story. A few times along the way I thought of other series, but not enough that it was a bad thing. A lot of books remind me of other books. I really liked the message it was sending to girls. Here was this rich, beautiful young girl that could have any boy she wanted. All she had to do was smile pretty and dress well and speak when she was spoken too, but that wasn’t enough for Livia Cosmo. She wanted to ride her horse and think for herself. She liked to get her feet dirty and she knew how to kick ass with a sword. She was bored with being shallow and vapid. She wasn’t really like that, and she fought against it, and it made me love her. The other character, Lex, was an orphan. Deemed unworthy by society and told that she would fail. She fought, she fought against oppression and she fought to succeed. She did not let where she came from dictate where she was going.
I felt like the story was intriguing. I wanted to learn more about how the world had become like this, and I am looking forward to the sequel. Like I said, it was not the best book I’ve ever read, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I had no problems getting through it, and it does not deserve NEARLY the amount of shit it is receiving from people on the Internet.
UPDATE: ACCORDING TO CRUSHABLE/LA TIMES-
“Along with their creative director Elizabeth Killmond-Roman, the Jenners created a broad two-page outline describing the futuristic tale about two girls with superpowers who are secretly twins. Sloan was hired to execute that vision, using Kendall and Kylie as inspiration for the book’s protagonists. The sisters took her along with them to New York Fashion Week and let her hang in their hotel room while they texted their friends.”
I stand by what I say. And I stand by Maya’s take on it as well, “I’ve learned to check my ego. Ego will get you a teaching job in Iowa grading freshman comp papers, or a 9-to-5 editing promotional material where you want to slit your wrists. I’m writing for a living, and it’s a gift to be a working writer.”
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nicolet2018's review
4.0
Knowing about the bad comments that have been going around this novel. Lets clear some things up shall we? I think everyone is so hot and bothered because they don't believe Kendall and Kylie Jenner can write a book. Actually neither do I. If you look further, you will see that they enlisted the help of a ghost writer, Maya Sloane and their creative director Elizabeth Killmond-Roman to create this book. Googling how Maya Sloane feels with working with the Jenner sister gives the important details. Kendall and Kylie came up with a two page outline with the assistance of Elizabeth. Maya met them numerous times to discuss the ideas. Maya did most of the writing and the girls and Elizabeth would give their opinions of the drafts. There. Now lets move on to the actual book.
Gorgeous cover. I love the white and the eye reminds me of Ignite Me. I think that because Kendall and Kylies names are slapped on the cover. That most people misinterpret what it means. Maya Sloane and Elizabeth Killmond-Roman names only appear if you flip open the book. I don't really care whose names are on the front. I only want to know if the story is interesting. The summary certainly intrigued me.
The story begins with a group of rebels fronting a mission to drill to the surface of the earth. They do not want to live underground anymore. However the journey is fraught with danger as groups are against what they are striving towards. Moreover. Mutations are abound and keep attacking their campsite. I wasn't sure why this was the prologue until later.
I am introduced to Livia Cosmo. An Orphan "Airess" Heiress to the Cosmo legacy. She lives on Helix. A floating island. The rich and those deemed important live in the air. She is preparing for her Emergence Ball which is just another word for debut. Where she will be introduced to society as a Proper Young Woman. She has been preparing since young for this moment. Livia has never felt like she fit in with anyone. Her best friend is Veda, her mother's horse. Things are very different in this world. She is given everything she wants and yet she feels trapped.
Lex "Lexie" grew up underground in an orphanage. It isn't a fun place and she vows never to rely on anyone. She is plucked from obscurity and is given a place in the Population Control Force Academy as a cadet. She is an anomaly as no one from Rock Bottom has ever been accepted into the Academy. She is rebellious and stubborn but finds a friend in Kane.
I am in awe of the world building. The rich live in the sky and the unmentionables and poor live underground? Ingenious. The fleshing out of this dystopian world was just right. It is really crazy how the rich are taught very ridiculous things that are deemed appropriate. It is like the rulers of the city are brainwashing these people and they do not know better. If you disagree, you don't fit in. Then there is all sorts of technology from cosmetics to eco systems that I just loved reading. I can see alot of thought went into this.
The writing was great and flowed well. I initially had worries that the plot would not be good and the writing disappointing but both make me feel that they make up an amazing dystopian story. Maya Sloane is not given enough credit for this. I wish she was.
The two girls are obviously sisters and destined to do great things. They aren't normal,I liked the two perspectives the reader got from Livia and Lex. The prim and refined voice of Livia and the strong willed thoughts and words of Lex. They are kick ass fighters as well! another plus. However their fight scene was a tad bit insane. There is abit of romance here. I liked reading about their lives from childhood to teen years. It certainly didn't go in order but it wasnt an issue for me. The various characters had such unique names and stand out personalities.
This is a surprise. I think that it is unfair to give comments on a book if you haven't read it. Using the phrase "judging a book by its cover" is not really accurate but hey if that is what some do then it's their thing and it's fine. But I think it is important to give the book a chance. I never knew how good it would be until read the first few pages. I don't think the sequel can be better than this. It is that good.
Gorgeous cover. I love the white and the eye reminds me of Ignite Me. I think that because Kendall and Kylies names are slapped on the cover. That most people misinterpret what it means. Maya Sloane and Elizabeth Killmond-Roman names only appear if you flip open the book. I don't really care whose names are on the front. I only want to know if the story is interesting. The summary certainly intrigued me.
The story begins with a group of rebels fronting a mission to drill to the surface of the earth. They do not want to live underground anymore. However the journey is fraught with danger as groups are against what they are striving towards. Moreover. Mutations are abound and keep attacking their campsite. I wasn't sure why this was the prologue until later.
I am introduced to Livia Cosmo. An Orphan "Airess" Heiress to the Cosmo legacy. She lives on Helix. A floating island. The rich and those deemed important live in the air. She is preparing for her Emergence Ball which is just another word for debut. Where she will be introduced to society as a Proper Young Woman. She has been preparing since young for this moment. Livia has never felt like she fit in with anyone. Her best friend is Veda, her mother's horse. Things are very different in this world. She is given everything she wants and yet she feels trapped.
Lex "Lexie" grew up underground in an orphanage. It isn't a fun place and she vows never to rely on anyone. She is plucked from obscurity and is given a place in the Population Control Force Academy as a cadet. She is an anomaly as no one from Rock Bottom has ever been accepted into the Academy. She is rebellious and stubborn but finds a friend in Kane.
I am in awe of the world building. The rich live in the sky and the unmentionables and poor live underground? Ingenious. The fleshing out of this dystopian world was just right. It is really crazy how the rich are taught very ridiculous things that are deemed appropriate. It is like the rulers of the city are brainwashing these people and they do not know better. If you disagree, you don't fit in. Then there is all sorts of technology from cosmetics to eco systems that I just loved reading. I can see alot of thought went into this.
The writing was great and flowed well. I initially had worries that the plot would not be good and the writing disappointing but both make me feel that they make up an amazing dystopian story. Maya Sloane is not given enough credit for this. I wish she was.
The two girls are obviously sisters and destined to do great things. They aren't normal,
Spoiler
they have superpowers!This is a surprise. I think that it is unfair to give comments on a book if you haven't read it. Using the phrase "judging a book by its cover" is not really accurate but hey if that is what some do then it's their thing and it's fine. But I think it is important to give the book a chance. I never knew how good it would be until read the first few pages. I don't think the sequel can be better than this. It is that good.
grasshopperjungle's review against another edition
1.0
This book really said ‘twin rights’ and literally nothing else.
The irony of the themes ghostwritten in this book aren’t lost on me at all. Thematic concerns of patriarchy and unattainable beauty standards, yet it was ‘written’ by Kendal and Kylie Jenner. Ten bucks says they’ve never read it the whole way through.
The irony of the themes ghostwritten in this book aren’t lost on me at all. Thematic concerns of patriarchy and unattainable beauty standards, yet it was ‘written’ by Kendal and Kylie Jenner. Ten bucks says they’ve never read it the whole way through.