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amarylissw 's review for:
Dissonance
by Erica O'Rourke
I think I'm verging on a 3.75 stars here.
The world-building in this story was excellent. Well researched, even to a point that anyone who doesn't have a disposition to science might be confused (I understood enough to be able to still follow the story, but some parts were still confusing as I am terrible at science). One question I do have about the world, though, is how was Walking discovered? How did the Consort form and how do more people not know of the Walkers?
Anyway, my biggest problem with this story was probably the characters. The plot some might find slow (especially since it's a nearly five hundred page book, thick with romance!), but the characters irritated more. Del herself wasn't a terrible protagonist, and I get that she's supposed to be the trouble-maker, but she seems so offended when she breaks a rule, almost dies, and then gets in trouble for it. If it was a stupid rule, sure, I'd be mad, too. But the rule seemed perfectly fair to me seeing as she and her sister could've almost DIED.
Another thing. I started off hating the two sisters' relationship, then it got better, and then it kind of fell apart again. Being fairly close to my sister, I thought Del and Addie were both so mean to each other, but maybe it's normal, I don't know.
Best friend falls in love with protagonist and the protagonist pretends to not notice/ignores it? So cliché.
Simon was pretty boring. Had no substance, nothing to make him different than another thousand love interests we've had before.
Also, Monty. I was kind of annoyed by this. In the end, we
The writing was pretty good, and had some awesome moments even. But what makes this story really shine is the world-building. Much better than most YAs these days.
The world-building in this story was excellent. Well researched, even to a point that anyone who doesn't have a disposition to science might be confused (I understood enough to be able to still follow the story, but some parts were still confusing as I am terrible at science). One question I do have about the world, though, is how was Walking discovered? How did the Consort form and how do more people not know of the Walkers?
Anyway, my biggest problem with this story was probably the characters. The plot some might find slow (especially since it's a nearly five hundred page book, thick with romance!), but the characters irritated more. Del herself wasn't a terrible protagonist, and I get that she's supposed to be the trouble-maker, but she seems so offended when she breaks a rule, almost dies, and then gets in trouble for it. If it was a stupid rule, sure, I'd be mad, too. But the rule seemed perfectly fair to me seeing as she and her sister could've almost DIED.
Another thing. I started off hating the two sisters' relationship, then it got better, and then it kind of fell apart again. Being fairly close to my sister, I thought Del and Addie were both so mean to each other, but maybe it's normal, I don't know.
Best friend falls in love with protagonist and the protagonist pretends to not notice/ignores it? So cliché.
Simon was pretty boring. Had no substance, nothing to make him different than another thousand love interests we've had before.
Also, Monty. I was kind of annoyed by this. In the end, we
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figure out that he's been manipulating Del for pretty much her whole life in order to find Rose, his wife, who disappeared a long time ago. Del seems so hurt by this, and she hopes he "rots" in his cell where he'd been taken. But to me, I couldn't really understand this. Sure, I'd be angry, too, but Monty is her grandfather and she's loved and looked up to him for her whole life. And plus, she found Simon, and she definitely manipulated people to be with him. How is that so different than what Monty did? So yeah, that just kind of annoyed me. Especially since I thought Monty was one of the more interesting characters in the story.The writing was pretty good, and had some awesome moments even. But what makes this story really shine is the world-building. Much better than most YAs these days.