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dramaqueentears 's review for:
Chosen Ones
by Veronica Roth
I was excited about the premise of what happens to teenagers who save the world in dystopian fiction. And it being an adult novel? I happily waited six months to read this and it was garbage.
It started okay! I liked the main five characters in concept. Sloane is one of five chosen ones who saved the world from the Dark One and for some reason, she’s not surviving as well as the other four. She has PTSD and everyone expects her to move on, but she can’t. Two of the four embraced their new fame in being active in the community and social media. One lives a quiet life. Another is struggling with addiction. On the ten year anniversary of the defeat, one of the five passes away suddenly and the story begins.
Anyway, my personal thought is that the author wrote this like she was starting at chapter 10 and hoping we’d catch up. I kept reading it and thinking, “I feel like I’m missing something that would help this make sense.” If Veronica Roth had spent more time developing the alternate universe she created out of nowhere instead of waxing poetic about how much she knows about Chicago, my review would probably be different.
The main characters were intended to be in their late twenties and spoke like teenagers but occasionally said curse words. Sloane regularly said things that I’m sure Roth thought were total zingers that made me want to scream. And don’t get me started about the character that was the love interest... because we should be glorifying abuse.
All I will say is this: I never read Divergent as a teenager but I won’t be going back to read it now.
It started okay! I liked the main five characters in concept. Sloane is one of five chosen ones who saved the world from the Dark One and for some reason, she’s not surviving as well as the other four. She has PTSD and everyone expects her to move on, but she can’t. Two of the four embraced their new fame in being active in the community and social media. One lives a quiet life. Another is struggling with addiction. On the ten year anniversary of the defeat, one of the five passes away suddenly and the story begins.
Anyway, my personal thought is that the author wrote this like she was starting at chapter 10 and hoping we’d catch up. I kept reading it and thinking, “I feel like I’m missing something that would help this make sense.” If Veronica Roth had spent more time developing the alternate universe she created out of nowhere instead of waxing poetic about how much she knows about Chicago, my review would probably be different.
The main characters were intended to be in their late twenties and spoke like teenagers but occasionally said curse words. Sloane regularly said things that I’m sure Roth thought were total zingers that made me want to scream. And don’t get me started about the character that was the love interest... because we should be glorifying abuse.
All I will say is this: I never read Divergent as a teenager but I won’t be going back to read it now.