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The Gender Game
by Bella Forrest
DID NOT FINISH
So many thoughts on this book and I only made it 30% of the way through.
It started storng. The prologue had me entigued. Here was a girl trying to protect her little brother, but it all went downhill after that.
We meet Violet several years later still doing time for a crime, not for trying to help her brother escape like the prologue set up, but for accidently killing another girl with a fork... This sets the scene for other little things in the story that aren't believable, like the next girl she accidently kills with a piece of wire from the other girl's dental braces.... This is all in the first couple of chapters.
I persevered, thinking the actual story would get going any time now.
The book has a theme about the gender divide and this is rammed down the reader's throat in every paragraph. It's also completely binary. Everyone is male or female.
Violent is sent to Patrus (the male run world) for the mission that only she can help with for unknown reasons. This is where a combination of info-dump and world building make this story mind numbingly dull. She gets picked up by her contact and they ride on his motorcycle through endless scenery. They arrive at his house, get greeted by the dog, she pats the dog, she has a glass of water, he has a glass of water. Everyone gets so bored, they go to bed. In the morning breakfast is described in exact detail before they go on another drive through more endless scenery to go clothes shopping. (This is a summery of multiple chapters).
I was listening to the audio book while in the bath. It was at this point I had to stop as I feared I was going to fall asleep and drown beneath the soap suds.
The End.
It started storng. The prologue had me entigued. Here was a girl trying to protect her little brother, but it all went downhill after that.
We meet Violet several years later still doing time for a crime, not for trying to help her brother escape like the prologue set up, but for accidently killing another girl with a fork... This sets the scene for other little things in the story that aren't believable, like the next girl she accidently kills with a piece of wire from the other girl's dental braces.... This is all in the first couple of chapters.
I persevered, thinking the actual story would get going any time now.
The book has a theme about the gender divide and this is rammed down the reader's throat in every paragraph. It's also completely binary. Everyone is male or female.
Violent is sent to Patrus (the male run world) for the mission that only she can help with for unknown reasons. This is where a combination of info-dump and world building make this story mind numbingly dull. She gets picked up by her contact and they ride on his motorcycle through endless scenery. They arrive at his house, get greeted by the dog, she pats the dog, she has a glass of water, he has a glass of water. Everyone gets so bored, they go to bed. In the morning breakfast is described in exact detail before they go on another drive through more endless scenery to go clothes shopping. (This is a summery of multiple chapters).
I was listening to the audio book while in the bath. It was at this point I had to stop as I feared I was going to fall asleep and drown beneath the soap suds.
The End.