fictioncourt 's review for:

Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth

2.0

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"...written for an adult audience..."



I genuinely fail to see how this is written for an adult audience, which was basically the biggest selling point for me. At times I had to remind myself that these characters are adults, and not teens dealing with the usual tropes of magic, evil, world domination and the likes of which I've read one too many times.

Reading big YA names trying their hand at NA/Adult is always something I'm into, especially when I have read their YA books, I just want to see if the same element I loved in their books transfers to a more "adult" audience.

I didn't in this case? For a mature YA that gives no fucks, this was an okay read, super slow and it keeps on dragging and dragging until it reaches a crescendo but the road to that is a very long one to be honest. I read this is parts over the course of a few months and that should tell you all you need to know.

(I'm still surprised this is the final cover, I thought it was a fancy ARC cover for Netgalley, definitely not the final one but oh well.)