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kenziekeppner 's review for:
Carve the Mark
by Veronica Roth
So I feel like I have a love hate relationship with Veronica Roth. I've been avoiding reading this book, since the reviews were pretty bad, and I just didn't trust Roth after reading Allegiant. I really enjoyed the first 2 books of the Divergent trilogy, but Allegiant ruined the whole series. The plot line went way off course and Roth tended to be a little too kill happy with her characters. But in the end, I decided to give this book a chance, because I really did enjoy Divergent, even if it was kind of weird at times.
Reviews for this book are the not the best, one of the reasons for that is because people claim it's racist. I don't agree with this. The Shotet people are described being of MIXED race because they are scavengers. Cyra is described having dark skin, so people automatically assume that all of them have dark skin. If you read closely, you'll see that there are plenty of Shotet who have blonde hair, hence the word mixed. The book isn't racist, people just like to find problems where there aren't any.
So I feel like I'm one of like 4 people to actually like this book. I'm hesitant to give it 5 stars, because it does have it's flaws, but the pros to me out weigh the flaws. The sheer amount of time that Roth had to spend creating these characters and these worlds had be a crazy lot. I think the world building was near perfect, and having to come up with the all the names, traits, personalities of all of these different worlds had to be extremely difficult, so bravo there.
Roth also created 2 of probably my favorite characters of all time. Akos and Cyra were fascinating, and so deep, and just to add to their greatness, they also developed beautifully. They're love was so sweet and organic. They built each other up, made each other better, and both save one another, which is how a relationship should be.
The themes in the book were subtle, but powerful at the same time. We are more than what we seem. Watching the characters struggle and fight to break expectations and just be better was perfect and not forced in any way.
The book is slow at times and it is hard to remember names of all the characters since they're kind of weird and sometime sound the same. However, if you're into true Science fantasy, with a young adult twist, you'll love this.
Ok Roth, I'm trusting you here, this book was great. PLEASE don't ruin the rest of them!
Reviews for this book are the not the best, one of the reasons for that is because people claim it's racist. I don't agree with this. The Shotet people are described being of MIXED race because they are scavengers. Cyra is described having dark skin, so people automatically assume that all of them have dark skin. If you read closely, you'll see that there are plenty of Shotet who have blonde hair, hence the word mixed. The book isn't racist, people just like to find problems where there aren't any.
So I feel like I'm one of like 4 people to actually like this book. I'm hesitant to give it 5 stars, because it does have it's flaws, but the pros to me out weigh the flaws. The sheer amount of time that Roth had to spend creating these characters and these worlds had be a crazy lot. I think the world building was near perfect, and having to come up with the all the names, traits, personalities of all of these different worlds had to be extremely difficult, so bravo there.
Roth also created 2 of probably my favorite characters of all time. Akos and Cyra were fascinating, and so deep, and just to add to their greatness, they also developed beautifully. They're love was so sweet and organic. They built each other up, made each other better, and both save one another, which is how a relationship should be.
The themes in the book were subtle, but powerful at the same time. We are more than what we seem. Watching the characters struggle and fight to break expectations and just be better was perfect and not forced in any way.
The book is slow at times and it is hard to remember names of all the characters since they're kind of weird and sometime sound the same. However, if you're into true Science fantasy, with a young adult twist, you'll love this.
Ok Roth, I'm trusting you here, this book was great. PLEASE don't ruin the rest of them!