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A review by elizabethbane
The Body Electric by Beth Revis
3.0
This book really was pretty off the rails, sometimes in a good way and sometimes in a bad way. The main character is the definition of unreliable and suffers from hallucinations, so it's a very surreal read - you get a lot of whiplash trying to figure out what is real and what isn't. I liked this aspect of the book. The ending, however, had one too many twists for me - my eyes were definitely rolling at a few of them.
This is a standalone novel, which I appreciate (not every story needs to be a quadrilogy, and this definitely didn't need to be), but because this had to tell a complete story and establish the universe in 400 pages, the word-building was pretty shallow. The evil people are evil because that's the way they are, and the good people are good because they are, but there's not a lot of explanation behind it. Maybe a couple of the twists could have been sacrificed for some more comprehensive world-building.
Overall enjoyable - not as magical or engaging as Revis's Across The Universe series, though.
This is a standalone novel, which I appreciate (not every story needs to be a quadrilogy, and this definitely didn't need to be), but because this had to tell a complete story and establish the universe in 400 pages, the word-building was pretty shallow. The evil people are evil because that's the way they are, and the good people are good because they are, but there's not a lot of explanation behind it. Maybe a couple of the twists could have been sacrificed for some more comprehensive world-building.
Overall enjoyable - not as magical or engaging as Revis's Across The Universe series, though.