A review by what_is_sam_doing
Defy by C.S. Doraga, C.S. Doraga

3.0

So, I have lots of things to say about this book. First and foremost, this book is a middle-grade/YA book, so it’s not my usual genre. So that’s going to change how I talk about it. The rating is how I genuinely feel about it as a book without taking anything into account. When I take into account it being a younger YA book, I would probably give it 4 stars. I’m not going to give anything away, but this book is the epitome of when an English teacher tells you that you need to “show don’t tell”, because there was a TON of instances where things were literally spelled out to the heroine. There was absolutely no nuance to this book at all. That being said, there was a lot that was put into this book and none of it really had any detail at all.

I would recommend this to middle schoolers who are fans of Eragon!


Thanks to the publisher for the ARC! All thoughts are my own.