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Carve the Mark
by Veronica Roth
I was both excited and a little hesitant about receiving this book to review. I loved Divergent, still enjoyed Insurgent, and I still go back-and-forth on how I feel about Allegiant. I was hopeful that I would enjoy this one as much or more than I did Divergent, especially considering its sci-fi genre and intriguing premise.
I really liked that it started with a shared POV this time. It felt like Cyra got more chapters but we got a balanced aspect from two different cultures, the Shotet and the Thuvhe, and their paths merged due to their fates. I liked them both as characters and thought they worked well separately as they grew and together as they became allies. They each had prejudices toward the others' people, assumptions made from stories they were told, and they had to learn that not everything they perceived was true. The arc of them growing and trusting each other was just as important as the rebellion arc. I also thought it was interesting to see the usual roles switched where Cyra, the female lead, was the seasoned and deadly fighter, and Akros, the male lead, was a more gentle hero who had to learn to fight.
I thought the book had a bit of an X-Men in space vibe to it. Most people had something called a currentgift, some ability that made them unique and some abilities seemed more useful than others. Certain people also had a fate, a path the Oracle foresaw but the one sentence prediction was vague. The world-building was slow and I felt that I understood more about the way the system and the worlds worked as I read on. There wasn't a massive information dump or history lesson at the beginning, it all started to unfold throughout the plot and I can assume will keep unfolding in the next book.
The book had so much of what I enjoy in a story: characters that were easy to like, villains that were easy to hate, character growth, great character dynamics, twists, complicated issues. It did its job in making me very excited for the next book.
*I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
I really liked that it started with a shared POV this time. It felt like Cyra got more chapters but we got a balanced aspect from two different cultures, the Shotet and the Thuvhe, and their paths merged due to their fates. I liked them both as characters and thought they worked well separately as they grew and together as they became allies. They each had prejudices toward the others' people, assumptions made from stories they were told, and they had to learn that not everything they perceived was true. The arc of them growing and trusting each other was just as important as the rebellion arc. I also thought it was interesting to see the usual roles switched where Cyra, the female lead, was the seasoned and deadly fighter, and Akros, the male lead, was a more gentle hero who had to learn to fight.
I thought the book had a bit of an X-Men in space vibe to it. Most people had something called a currentgift, some ability that made them unique and some abilities seemed more useful than others. Certain people also had a fate, a path the Oracle foresaw but the one sentence prediction was vague. The world-building was slow and I felt that I understood more about the way the system and the worlds worked as I read on. There wasn't a massive information dump or history lesson at the beginning, it all started to unfold throughout the plot and I can assume will keep unfolding in the next book.
The book had so much of what I enjoy in a story: characters that were easy to like, villains that were easy to hate, character growth, great character dynamics, twists, complicated issues. It did its job in making me very excited for the next book.
*I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.