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A review by maya_b
Changers - Oryon by Allison Glock-Cooper, Allison Glock, T. Cooper
3.0
I still really like the concept, and I liked the execution in this book more than I liked it in the first. Still had a lot of questions about this world (that never got answered in any of these four books), because it still doesn't make sense in a lot of situations, if one asked me, but the story was really nice and there were less moments where I got angry at the parents or other people in this book compared to the first. (Those moments did still very much exist, though.) It did however read as if I'm supposed to get angry at the people I'm angry at, and like the authors know what they're doing, so I was willing to overlook how very unsatisfied I was in certain situations.
I liked how much this book made me think and for the most part the execution in this book was quite alright. I did feel really weird reading about racism from a person that has been black for only very little time, and sometimes I wondered if this is really how it should be, but Oryon also wondered about these things, and questioned everything, so it didn't feel too offensive (but from a person that is not of color, of course, I have no idea how offensive this actually was/would be for someone of color.
I liked how this time we got to know a completely different friend group, and how there was more focus on things outside of Audrey and Oryon (although I did still enjoy their story), and it also got pretty serious and very suspenseful at times. I especially liked the ending, and was very surprised by that and looking forward for how it would continue.
I also think this was the book I really started to question this whole universe around 2am, because at some point this story just gave me way to many questions. Not bad ones, but like ... if you're born with your sexuality (and you are), does that mean Changers could theoretically change their sexuality? Was Oryon just lucky to like girls this time, too? Could he have lost interest in Audrey this time around? Does sexuality work different in this universe? Do souls love each other? Is everyone just pan sexual? What if Oryon wakes up in a new body and they suddenly loose all interest in Audrey? What if Audrey didn't like Oryon one bit because she didn't like guys? What exactly are the rules here? Can changers be trans? "Don't worry, you just have to wait three years at most to change into the body you want"? What if they only get bodies that would be assigned female at birth but are a trans man? Can that even happen? Like, I still very much like the idea, and I like how this book makes the reader think about stuff, but at the same time I just felt like a lot of stuff hadn't actually been thought out or even thought about. (Stuff, that also probably bothers nobody, and it actually didn't bother me either, I just would have been interested in how the world works and what would have happened if Oryon for example would have been gay. Or Kim straight, or anything like that.)
Oh, also: why exactly do the changes happen at first day of school? How? Who plans that? What exactly makes sure that happens? That's a different day for anyone, how can a gene only affect people at a specific date that also probably changes every year? Why not a birthday? What if you have to repeat a class, will you just have five changes? Will you have to be back as who you choose to be? Will your family have to move again? And why on earth are there so many stupid rules about stuff, that make absolutely no sense? (Those questions actually did bother me, because stuff felt way too illogical at times.)
I liked how much this book made me think and for the most part the execution in this book was quite alright. I did feel really weird reading about racism from a person that has been black for only very little time, and sometimes I wondered if this is really how it should be, but Oryon also wondered about these things, and questioned everything, so it didn't feel too offensive (but from a person that is not of color, of course, I have no idea how offensive this actually was/would be for someone of color.
I liked how this time we got to know a completely different friend group, and how there was more focus on things outside of Audrey and Oryon (although I did still enjoy their story), and it also got pretty serious and very suspenseful at times. I especially liked the ending, and was very surprised by that and looking forward for how it would continue.
I also think this was the book I really started to question this whole universe around 2am, because at some point this story just gave me way to many questions. Not bad ones, but like ... if you're born with your sexuality (and you are), does that mean Changers could theoretically change their sexuality? Was Oryon just lucky to like girls this time, too? Could he have lost interest in Audrey this time around? Does sexuality work different in this universe? Do souls love each other? Is everyone just pan sexual? What if Oryon wakes up in a new body and they suddenly loose all interest in Audrey? What if Audrey didn't like Oryon one bit because she didn't like guys? What exactly are the rules here? Can changers be trans? "Don't worry, you just have to wait three years at most to change into the body you want"? What if they only get bodies that would be assigned female at birth but are a trans man? Can that even happen? Like, I still very much like the idea, and I like how this book makes the reader think about stuff, but at the same time I just felt like a lot of stuff hadn't actually been thought out or even thought about. (Stuff, that also probably bothers nobody, and it actually didn't bother me either, I just would have been interested in how the world works and what would have happened if Oryon for example would have been gay. Or Kim straight, or anything like that.)
Oh, also: why exactly do the changes happen at first day of school? How? Who plans that? What exactly makes sure that happens? That's a different day for anyone, how can a gene only affect people at a specific date that also probably changes every year? Why not a birthday? What if you have to repeat a class, will you just have five changes? Will you have to be back as who you choose to be? Will your family have to move again? And why on earth are there so many stupid rules about stuff, that make absolutely no sense? (Those questions actually did bother me, because stuff felt way too illogical at times.)