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alicebme's review against another edition
3.0
This book was good enough for me to want to read the third. I kind of like that Day bows out. It's dumb and predictable, but I think any idiot who does that is...well, and idiot. Anden seems nice. For the third book, Lu should NOT have Anden betray June so that she ends back up with Day. That is probably what people want, but the bond between Day and June really hasn't been forged convincingly. Make Anden terrific and sexy, and all is good in the Republic hood.
emilyprobert23's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
tropicalparadise17's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
pigsandbooks's review against another edition
3.0
Getting back into this series so long after I read the first book I think is part of the reason why I didn't enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed the first.
iswendle's review against another edition
3.0
Prodigy continues in line with its preceding book and feels like a YA novel with some clichés but very appealing worldbuilding. It's a fun read, though not without its flaws.
Where Legend was a cool story about a boy surviving on the streets, Prodigy moves toward a book about a bigger story of rebellion. A logical step for the story, but the writing style does not really suit a carefully crafted story of rebellion and warfare and politics. More than I would like this book is filled with a very awkward romance arc and filler conversation and repetition. Halfway through the book it is pretty obvious which way the story is going, but after every perspective switch we first suffer through multiple pages of repetition of the previous chapter, just from another point of view. This, along with the in my opinion awkward and forced romance arc between characters just made it difficult to fly through the book. Something I easily did in the first part of the trology as that felt like an action-packed story about an orphan running over the rooftops of a dystopian slum.
I still enjoyed Prodigy, but the change of focus from a narrative driven 2 person perspective story to a character driven story, really made the change of pace between the first and second book terrible for me.
Where Legend was a cool story about a boy surviving on the streets, Prodigy moves toward a book about a bigger story of rebellion. A logical step for the story, but the writing style does not really suit a carefully crafted story of rebellion and warfare and politics. More than I would like this book is filled with a very awkward romance arc and filler conversation and repetition. Halfway through the book it is pretty obvious which way the story is going, but after every perspective switch we first suffer through multiple pages of repetition of the previous chapter, just from another point of view. This, along with the in my opinion awkward and forced romance arc between characters just made it difficult to fly through the book. Something I easily did in the first part of the trology as that felt like an action-packed story about an orphan running over the rooftops of a dystopian slum.
I still enjoyed Prodigy, but the change of focus from a narrative driven 2 person perspective story to a character driven story, really made the change of pace between the first and second book terrible for me.
protoman21's review against another edition
3.0
This one was much weaker than the first. I admit, I have read too many dystopias lately and they all run together as they all seem to follow the same storyline, but that doesn't excuse the lack of originality of each story. I tend to enjoy the setup for these books because that is where the author gets to flex their creativity muscle and come up with something unique. Unfortunately from that point on, they all tend to come together. I wish everyone could stop writing trilogies and just write one strong original story.