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eliana12's review
5.0
5 stars! The character development in this book was top-tier! The MC is one of my favorite main characters in a book. Slow to medium pace. Details in the world building were fantastic, such as how the letter your name starts with correlates to the year you are born! However, the world was a bit tough to picture overall. This book was lovely and heartbreaking and real.
lorathelibrarian's review
4.0
Another dystopia novel that I very much enjoyed. Goodman created a new future for our world and discussed how difficult it is to be different, but how important it is as well. I really liked how she incorporated the entertainment and action with the message of standing out and becoming a force to be reckoned with.
leavingsealevel's review
3.0
This kinda reminded me of [b:Brave New World|5129|Brave New World|Aldous Huxley|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SJW829TEL._SL75_.jpg|3204877], except that I liked this better. Pretty sure that is a comment (and not a positive one) on the reader, rather than on the books. Sort of the literary version of an error ID ten T.
At first I was annoyed that librarians appeared to be evil in Goodman's dystopian future...but then I found out that the POSTAL SERVICE is also evil. If you are in the resistance, the POSTAL SERVICE can come to your house and kidnap you in a postal bag. That is really grounds for five stars, all on its own.
Not Suzanne Collins or JK Rowling, but not good for mindless YA reading during third year tenure review hell.
At first I was annoyed that librarians appeared to be evil in Goodman's dystopian future...but then I found out that the POSTAL SERVICE is also evil. If you are in the resistance, the POSTAL SERVICE can come to your house and kidnap you in a postal bag. That is really grounds for five stars, all on its own.
Not Suzanne Collins or JK Rowling, but not good for mindless YA reading during third year tenure review hell.
chadstep's review
3.0
Not bad, not great--I felt like this, like many sci-fi books, wasn't really literary or written with much love but rather banged out and very structural in the plot and voice. Good and well liked by the YA group I read it with, but they're more tolerant of poor prose than I am.
adeperi's review against another edition
3.0
I wasn't sure how I felt about this book throughout a large chunk of the story because I didn't understand the point it was trying to make. However, I figured it out by the end, and the Author's note cleared up my confusion I had. This was a fairly good dystopian novel that makes the reader think about protecting the environment and how far we should go to do so.
kbug0425's review
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
2.5
kimberseverance's review
2.0
Alot like the Giver. Only more contemporary and less masterfully written.
librariann's review against another edition
4.0
Ages 10+ (if you read The Giver, you'd be okay with this)
In the future, the world is mostly covered by water. It is taught that the Earth Mother controls the weather and in doing so protects the people. People are told that She and her 'government', the Corporation, have begun Enclosing some of the unsafe Northern and Southern areas, readying them for habitation. As the book begins, ten-year old Honor and her family have just left the North and moved to a tropical island run by the Corporation. School teaches her things she knows to be untrue from her time in the North. But conforming is easier...and conform she does. Her parents, however, do not. From having a second child to not fearing the water, her parents are different. Unacceptable. But are they actually RIGHT?
Forget Candor, this is how a dystopia should be run.
In the future, the world is mostly covered by water. It is taught that the Earth Mother controls the weather and in doing so protects the people. People are told that She and her 'government', the Corporation, have begun Enclosing some of the unsafe Northern and Southern areas, readying them for habitation. As the book begins, ten-year old Honor and her family have just left the North and moved to a tropical island run by the Corporation. School teaches her things she knows to be untrue from her time in the North. But conforming is easier...and conform she does. Her parents, however, do not. From having a second child to not fearing the water, her parents are different. Unacceptable. But are they actually RIGHT?
Forget Candor, this is how a dystopia should be run.