A review by iwritetragedies
Oblivion by Anthony Horowitz

4.0

I've looked for this book for 5 continuous years. Part of me wishes my friends never found it for me. I would say I'm a quick reader but this book took me almost a week to get through, the number of misery breaks I had to take and tears I've shed are off the charts. I remember reading an interview for Horowitz before the book was published, he said the ending wasn't going to be a happy one, he omitted mentioning that the entire book was going to be one misery after the other. The suspense, the writing, the character development, it takes you there, forces you to become one with the characters. The ending wasn't my favourite thing though.. not because of how it is, I didn't expect it to be a fair tale, but it didn't feel right, not convincing enough.. but I guess the ENTIRE book makes up for that. I also felt like there were 2-3 plot holes while I was reading.. and maybe if I ever get the heart to read this series again I'll write them out... but pain is just too great right now, and the fact that so many of events are so close to things happening in real life doesn't make it any better. I was not happy with the way some of the ethnic minority were written out with all these stereotypes, some of it was even offensive, belittling people's believes and ideologies... I guess that's a thing the author has because I noticed it in Alex Rider as well.. and the repetition of info in that one book was sort of annoying too, you don't need to remind us every 3 chapters what the dream world is... or how their powers work. I wish you could give it like 4.5 but since you can't give half stars I'll settle for 4.