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I probably should have known better by the description of this, that this would be far less in the dystopian world-building and far more in the romance. It sounded interesting--a society that lobotomizes emotions ant the age of 18 because love causes too much chaos, but instead it's a cheesy teen romance with some dystopian flavor thrown in.
The biggest let-down was just how little Oliver bothers developing and showing Lena's world. She relies pretty heavily on tropes of the genre rather than building things herself, and as a result her Portland, Maine of the future is so bland.
I enjoyed how things turned out eventually, and was pretty happy with the bleak ending. I hadn't realized this is slated as a trilogy, however (I guess it's really the in thing now to do dystopia trilogies), which takes away some of that. I might pick up the sequels, but right now I far prefer the ending of this volume. Either way, I'll be paying more attention to the reviews on anything else in this series.
The biggest let-down was just how little Oliver bothers developing and showing Lena's world. She relies pretty heavily on tropes of the genre rather than building things herself, and as a result her Portland, Maine of the future is so bland.
I enjoyed how things turned out eventually, and was pretty happy with the bleak ending. I hadn't realized this is slated as a trilogy, however (I guess it's really the in thing now to do dystopia trilogies), which takes away some of that. I might pick up the sequels, but right now I far prefer the ending of this volume. Either way, I'll be paying more attention to the reviews on anything else in this series.