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Carve the Mark
by Veronica Roth
This is a fairly unpleasant read. I kept trying to get into in but the characters are so one dimensional as to almost be cardboard cutouts of the Myers Briggs. The hook of the powers (current-gifts) is never really given a good explanation, the little you get is that it’s really only present in the populated bits of this galaxy. Then their are these different planets with different cultures that are supposedly sometimes enemies. Finally the culture that was a fairly put down one now reborn and taking what it likes of other cultures to rebuild and make a new culture.
The writing style is simple and very very annoying. The repetitive explanation and continual this is this way because this gets annoying. Their is no exploration about how this affected both cultures or even why that aspect was chosen (other than to improve the fighting styles of the invaders).
It doesn’t really get any better. I often find only one out of a few chapters unpleasant, but I never found one I liked. When the big baddy is finally killed I was rooting for him to win so I could actually get the only interesting character in the book some development! I hate to DNF a book someone got me as a present but I lagged through this book. I felt often unable to find any real enjoyable moments. I’m really not likely to recommend anyone read this. In fact, find something you want to read more, or again, before going to this one.
The writing style is simple and very very annoying. The repetitive explanation and continual this is this way because this gets annoying. Their is no exploration about how this affected both cultures or even why that aspect was chosen (other than to improve the fighting styles of the invaders).
It doesn’t really get any better. I often find only one out of a few chapters unpleasant, but I never found one I liked. When the big baddy is finally killed I was rooting for him to win so I could actually get the only interesting character in the book some development! I hate to DNF a book someone got me as a present but I lagged through this book. I felt often unable to find any real enjoyable moments. I’m really not likely to recommend anyone read this. In fact, find something you want to read more, or again, before going to this one.