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A review by tboofy
The Office of Mercy by Ariel Djanikian
3.0
I wanted to like this more than I did. I usually enjoy our library's Reader's Choice books, but this one was really slow through the first 1/3 of the book. I kept thinking that they should have made it a YA book (dystopian novels are really better when they're YA) and taken out about a fourth of the words. I found myself skipping parts of paragraphs because they were wordy. I actually put it down and read another book before picking it up again because I didn't have anything I wanted to read more.
The middle of the book was really good. I finally started getting into the plot and wondering what would happen next. I'd rank the middle of the book as a 4.
The ending, however...I don't know if this was meant to be a series or not, but if not, the ending didn't resolve anything and made me mad I suffered through the whole book. I couldn't see any indication that there is a second on in the works, so it just kinda ended without any closure for the two main characters. Overall, not my favorite book.
The middle of the book was really good. I finally started getting into the plot and wondering what would happen next. I'd rank the middle of the book as a 4.
The ending, however...I don't know if this was meant to be a series or not, but if not, the ending didn't resolve anything and made me mad I suffered through the whole book. I couldn't see any indication that there is a second on in the works, so it just kinda ended without any closure for the two main characters. Overall, not my favorite book.