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Broken Lies
by Claire Vale
SPOILERS. LAST WARNING.
This is partially my fault. I did not know, despite reading tons of reviews, that this is somewhat of a prequel for a series being written. For some reason I thought this was about before the disaster and not just post-disaster. I thought that was an interesting and lesser done premise. It is very specifically post-apocalypse, so I'm not counting that against the book. That's my bad.
Pros:
Some interesting characters
Interesting premise at first.
It's really nice to see YA taking place outside of the USA
Cons:
1. WAY too many spoilers and foreshadowing in the book itself. Let us do some guessing. It makes it more interesting if we DON'T know something hugely bad is about to happen.
2. The end felt like a rip off of Hunger Games. The details are different, but the idea is pretty much the same.
3. The love triangle. Really?
4. While the main character as a girl mostly interested in fashion is definitely different than a lot of the "strong girl" YA dystopian types, it seems very out of place here. Really, the population is decimated, there are "Living Corpses" attacking, you're cut off from the rest of the world which let's face it, sucks, and you want to be a fashion designer and the government actually opens a job as fashion designer? Um, ok.
5. It's been 30 years since the big stuff first went down, right? And it looks like the society has very little problems and runs better than most governments today. Well, good for them. But it does take away from the believability. I guess maybe where and how they get all of this stuff will come up in later books, but even the vaccine origination seems really iffy. Where are you getting the power, the equipment, the specialized chemicals, and the know-how 30 years down the line?
I would have counted this a solid 3.5 star book until the end.
This is partially my fault. I did not know, despite reading tons of reviews, that this is somewhat of a prequel for a series being written. For some reason I thought this was about before the disaster and not just post-disaster. I thought that was an interesting and lesser done premise. It is very specifically post-apocalypse, so I'm not counting that against the book. That's my bad.
Pros:
Some interesting characters
Interesting premise at first.
It's really nice to see YA taking place outside of the USA
Cons:
1. WAY too many spoilers and foreshadowing in the book itself. Let us do some guessing. It makes it more interesting if we DON'T know something hugely bad is about to happen.
2. The end felt like a rip off of Hunger Games. The details are different, but the idea is pretty much the same.
3. The love triangle. Really?
4. While the main character as a girl mostly interested in fashion is definitely different than a lot of the "strong girl" YA dystopian types, it seems very out of place here. Really, the population is decimated, there are "Living Corpses" attacking, you're cut off from the rest of the world which let's face it, sucks, and you want to be a fashion designer and the government actually opens a job as fashion designer? Um, ok.
5. It's been 30 years since the big stuff first went down, right? And it looks like the society has very little problems and runs better than most governments today. Well, good for them. But it does take away from the believability. I guess maybe where and how they get all of this stuff will come up in later books, but even the vaccine origination seems really iffy. Where are you getting the power, the equipment, the specialized chemicals, and the know-how 30 years down the line?
I would have counted this a solid 3.5 star book until the end.