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The Conspiracy of Us
by Maggie Hall
It's hard to decide how I felt about this book. I wasn't overly excited about the book, and yet I didn't hate it. There were some great action packed moments where I couldn't wait to find out what would happen. My heart would race and I would have to keep reading to find out if our characters would escape or not but then the next scene would come up and the action and interesting aspects of the book would fade away. This book was constantly grabbing my attention then suddenly losing it again, making me flip through pages waiting for something eventful and possibly more interesting than our two main characters staring into each other's eyes.
Avery is a pretty average man heroine in any YA novel. She's bland, yet everyone is falling in love with her, she of course is the "chosen one", and she has to somehow save the world. The thing I did like about Avery is she has a good head on her shoulders. She stayed calm no matter how many stressful things came her way. She broke down not while running from bad guys trying to kill her. She fought for her life and when she was safe and had a moment she let loose and broke down. She wasn't a damsel and I appreciated that about her. As much as I appreciated her determination, I could have lived without her boy crazed moments. If I had to hear about how pretty our love interests were one more time I think I would have burned this book. We get it, Jack has lovely arms, move on! I don't need an essay on how pretty this boy's tummy muscles are.
And our boys. So first we have Jack, our British, secret agent dream boat. So bored! This boy was so bland vanilla is jealous of him. He had no personality. He's so busy trying to control himself he lacks any appeal. So many girls are wetting themselves at the thought of this boy and I was unimpressed. And then there's Stellan. I wanted to like Stellan, he's your typical bad boy with a chip on the shoulder who will have a personality switch after he falls for our heroine. Sadly we don't see enough of our bad boy, he has potential, and could be interesting especially with what we've seen of the witty banter but he's not much of a love interest. He doesn't show much interest in our main character and he's too busy trying to live his life than get into the mess this girl has got going for her. I hope we see more development of Stellan in the next book but so far he's a very flat cliched character that needs a bit more rounding out to make interesting.
This novel has a lot of first book in a series potential. I can really see this series either becoming really good or really terrible. Hopefully we see more character building in the next book, and a lot less Jack, send Mr. Vanilla home!
Avery is a pretty average man heroine in any YA novel. She's bland, yet everyone is falling in love with her, she of course is the "chosen one", and she has to somehow save the world. The thing I did like about Avery is she has a good head on her shoulders. She stayed calm no matter how many stressful things came her way. She broke down not while running from bad guys trying to kill her. She fought for her life and when she was safe and had a moment she let loose and broke down. She wasn't a damsel and I appreciated that about her. As much as I appreciated her determination, I could have lived without her boy crazed moments. If I had to hear about how pretty our love interests were one more time I think I would have burned this book. We get it, Jack has lovely arms, move on! I don't need an essay on how pretty this boy's tummy muscles are.
And our boys. So first we have Jack, our British, secret agent dream boat. So bored! This boy was so bland vanilla is jealous of him. He had no personality. He's so busy trying to control himself he lacks any appeal. So many girls are wetting themselves at the thought of this boy and I was unimpressed. And then there's Stellan. I wanted to like Stellan, he's your typical bad boy with a chip on the shoulder who will have a personality switch after he falls for our heroine. Sadly we don't see enough of our bad boy, he has potential, and could be interesting especially with what we've seen of the witty banter but he's not much of a love interest. He doesn't show much interest in our main character and he's too busy trying to live his life than get into the mess this girl has got going for her. I hope we see more development of Stellan in the next book but so far he's a very flat cliched character that needs a bit more rounding out to make interesting.
This novel has a lot of first book in a series potential. I can really see this series either becoming really good or really terrible. Hopefully we see more character building in the next book, and a lot less Jack, send Mr. Vanilla home!