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A review by annettebooksofhopeanddreams
Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth
4.0
I'm not the kinda girl who likes superheroes. Often I find the power balance uninteresting and on top of that a lot of superheroes are saints, which is also uninteresting by default. However, this story, that plays years and years later, sounded interesting from the moment I heard about it. It does help that I did enjoy the Divergent series by Veronica Roth (yes, including book 3) and when Fairyloot announced a special edition I just gave it a go.
And the main reason the book didn't end up rotting away on the shelves, is the original formatting of the book. The normal storyline, that follows Sloane who suffers from PTSD and still wakes up having nightmares in the middle of the night, is interrupted by confidential files, newspaper articles, e-mails and interviews. This way we slowly get an image of what has happened and what is currently happening and how it all connects.
During the first part of the book Roth focusses mainly on the five heroes and how they're all dealing with their stardom in their own way. Sloane isn't, at first glance, the nicest one of the group. She's closed herself up, hides from the outside world and has grown slightly bitter. But the other heroes, once you look past the surface, aren't really doing much better. They don't feel heroes. They feel survivors and they will carry the weight of what they had done on their shoulders for the rest of their lives.
The second part of the book dives more into the actual plot of the story. I don't wanna give too much away, since discovering everything and getting all the pieces of the puzzle one by one is for sure one of the big joys in this book, but it's a really exciting plot. And somewhen in that plot we slowly start to see that the lines between being a chosen one and a dark one can be quite thin and that hardly anyone is only good or only bad, a narrative that I really loved, especially in a book about heroes and chosen ones.
I have to admit that I find the ending was satisfying and that the book works as a standalone. But if there's gonna be a sequel, I'm really interested to see where that storyline is heading!
And the main reason the book didn't end up rotting away on the shelves, is the original formatting of the book. The normal storyline, that follows Sloane who suffers from PTSD and still wakes up having nightmares in the middle of the night, is interrupted by confidential files, newspaper articles, e-mails and interviews. This way we slowly get an image of what has happened and what is currently happening and how it all connects.
During the first part of the book Roth focusses mainly on the five heroes and how they're all dealing with their stardom in their own way. Sloane isn't, at first glance, the nicest one of the group. She's closed herself up, hides from the outside world and has grown slightly bitter. But the other heroes, once you look past the surface, aren't really doing much better. They don't feel heroes. They feel survivors and they will carry the weight of what they had done on their shoulders for the rest of their lives.
The second part of the book dives more into the actual plot of the story. I don't wanna give too much away, since discovering everything and getting all the pieces of the puzzle one by one is for sure one of the big joys in this book, but it's a really exciting plot. And somewhen in that plot we slowly start to see that the lines between being a chosen one and a dark one can be quite thin and that hardly anyone is only good or only bad, a narrative that I really loved, especially in a book about heroes and chosen ones.
I have to admit that I find the ending was satisfying and that the book works as a standalone. But if there's gonna be a sequel, I'm really interested to see where that storyline is heading!