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A teen I know loved this book so much they asked me to read it. I applaud the book for getting a teen passionate about reading, but from an adult perspective...this book is not very good.
The heroes/heroines are all invicible "badasses", as they'll be sure to tell you repeatedly. They get in fights every other page and they'll survive unbelievable odds through plot holes. Things like someone supposedly near death for chapters, then fighting off a dozen soldiers, and then no mention of injuries again.
While fighting like flying black belt ninjas, they spout of what are supposed to be clever comebacks and pithy one liners. And while a few made me laugh, most made me roll my eyes.
The plot holes/contradictions are throughout. Things appear and disappear - for example, Hawk's pet bird being left behind in her hometown one chapter then with her the next. Tracking devices being a bit plot device then never mentioned again.
A group of children who have been experimented on live in an abandoned children's home in the same complex as the lab that experimented on them and a prison. The children have steady jobs in the prison, but also live in hiding from the lab scientists. Scientists who, for some reason, need only them for experiments despite more easily accessible prisoners or drug addicts throughout the town? Who don't know they can easily find the children while they are at work?
The romance is pretty bad too. We see the main heroine meet a childhood friend - and totally nice rich (dystopian druglord) prince - and say 2 sentences before he's in a big street fight. Then the next time they meet, they're making out. It's clear he knows like 1% of what is going on in her life. Where's the actual relationship?
McCallum was an interesting villain though - definite vibes of a certain former US president...
The heroes/heroines are all invicible "badasses", as they'll be sure to tell you repeatedly. They get in fights every other page and they'll survive unbelievable odds through plot holes. Things like someone supposedly near death for chapters, then fighting off a dozen soldiers, and then no mention of injuries again.
While fighting like flying black belt ninjas, they spout of what are supposed to be clever comebacks and pithy one liners. And while a few made me laugh, most made me roll my eyes.
The plot holes/contradictions are throughout. Things appear and disappear - for example, Hawk's pet bird being left behind in her hometown one chapter then with her the next. Tracking devices being a bit plot device then never mentioned again.
A group of children who have been experimented on live in an abandoned children's home in the same complex as the lab that experimented on them and a prison. The children have steady jobs in the prison, but also live in hiding from the lab scientists. Scientists who, for some reason, need only them for experiments despite more easily accessible prisoners or drug addicts throughout the town? Who don't know they can easily find the children while they are at work?
The romance is pretty bad too. We see the main heroine meet a childhood friend - and totally nice rich (dystopian druglord) prince - and say 2 sentences before he's in a big street fight. Then the next time they meet, they're making out. It's clear he knows like 1% of what is going on in her life. Where's the actual relationship?
McCallum was an interesting villain though - definite vibes of a certain former US president...