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A review by niratuer
The Elites by Natasha Ngan
2.0
I'm sad. I expected so much more from this book, and as usual, many YA novels such as this one tend to disappoint.
Like, LOOK at that beautiful cover...I was expecting some badass female assassin and her badass assassin boyfriend.
In this book, the problem was that there was no exposition! (as strange as it is, YA's tend to have too much.) I kept questioning why as I read through. Why did she do that? Why is that like that? There was no history to Neo-Babel, no explanation on how the Elites blood was better than common blood, and why Reds were discriminated. Also, there was no explanation as to how Silver became an Elite if she is a Red. In the book there is the saying that a Red's blood is lower than common people's blood, but an Elite's blood is higher than common people's. That is a contradiction???
Nothing is said of how Silver was accepted into Elite status, and none of the fighting scenes show any of her talent, or Butterfly's, or Ember's, who seems to be the best.
Again, with the blood, there is no sense to the quote 'The rumor that Elite's don't bleed.' There is nothing to back up that fact. Elites just seem like normal people who walk around with stun guns. And none of their so called 'missions' are explained. Also, the writing seemed very simplistic, as if it were aimed at a younger audience?
Ugh. I'm getting frustrated. Stuff this book.
Like, LOOK at that beautiful cover...I was expecting some badass female assassin and her badass assassin boyfriend.
In this book, the problem was that there was no exposition! (as strange as it is, YA's tend to have too much.) I kept questioning why as I read through. Why did she do that? Why is that like that? There was no history to Neo-Babel, no explanation on how the Elites blood was better than common blood, and why Reds were discriminated. Also, there was no explanation as to how Silver became an Elite if she is a Red. In the book there is the saying that a Red's blood is lower than common people's blood, but an Elite's blood is higher than common people's. That is a contradiction???
Nothing is said of how Silver was accepted into Elite status, and none of the fighting scenes show any of her talent, or Butterfly's, or Ember's, who seems to be the best.
Again, with the blood, there is no sense to the quote 'The rumor that Elite's don't bleed.' There is nothing to back up that fact. Elites just seem like normal people who walk around with stun guns. And none of their so called 'missions' are explained. Also, the writing seemed very simplistic, as if it were aimed at a younger audience?
Ugh. I'm getting frustrated. Stuff this book.