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melhunt182 's review for:
The Cage
by Megan Shepherd
I finished this in a day, which tells you how fast paced this was. I really really enjoyed this. I was immediately drawn into the story, as it begins straight away in the action. No slow build up, you're immediately thrown into the plot.
This book is about a girl named Cora who wakes up in a desert, with no memory of how she got there. She finds 4 other teenagers, and different biome types, including a ready made town for them to live it. They soon realise they have been kidnapped by an alien race and are being kept in a human zoo. It then goes on to show how Cora tries to escape, and the difficulties she has doing this. There is a fair bit of romance, but not in a predictable way. I wasn't 100% sold on the romance, but I like it's not compeltely insta-lovey and I like the way this book ended so that it wont be plain sailing in book 2. Give me angst, give me drama, give me slow-burn, hate-to-love romance, I love it.
The main reason this is a 4 star and not a 5 star book was the side characters. I liked Cora, and I liked Cassian, and I was surprised to really like Mali, but the others... Lucky, Rolf, Nok, Leon, etc. They were all a bit meh. I couldn't connect with them when they felt like they weren't being themselves, when we thought they were all going crazy. It felt weird. I wish we'd gotten to know who they really were before they started going nuts and having their minds played with. But I'm sure this will be fixed in the next book when we hopefully meet these characters again.
One other teensy complaint, I wish the characters had been slightly older. The whole wanting them to procreate thing would've been less weird had they been 18+ and not 16.
I'm really looking forward to picking up The Hunt some time soon. This was just the face paced, action packed sci fi book I needed so I'm happy I picked it up.
This book is about a girl named Cora who wakes up in a desert, with no memory of how she got there. She finds 4 other teenagers, and different biome types, including a ready made town for them to live it. They soon realise they have been kidnapped by an alien race and are being kept in a human zoo. It then goes on to show how Cora tries to escape, and the difficulties she has doing this. There is a fair bit of romance, but not in a predictable way. I wasn't 100% sold on the romance, but I like it's not compeltely insta-lovey and I like the way this book ended so that it wont be plain sailing in book 2. Give me angst, give me drama, give me slow-burn, hate-to-love romance, I love it.
The main reason this is a 4 star and not a 5 star book was the side characters. I liked Cora, and I liked Cassian, and I was surprised to really like Mali, but the others... Lucky, Rolf, Nok, Leon, etc. They were all a bit meh. I couldn't connect with them when they felt like they weren't being themselves, when we thought they were all going crazy. It felt weird. I wish we'd gotten to know who they really were before they started going nuts and having their minds played with. But I'm sure this will be fixed in the next book when we hopefully meet these characters again.
One other teensy complaint, I wish the characters had been slightly older. The whole wanting them to procreate thing would've been less weird had they been 18+ and not 16.
I'm really looking forward to picking up The Hunt some time soon. This was just the face paced, action packed sci fi book I needed so I'm happy I picked it up.