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A review by jade_trader
Taken by Erin Bowman
3.0
A dystopian novel, not my type of genre, though it never has been. I read this book because the author was coming in to talk about her job, and I wanted to know about her work.
The main characters are Grey, his brother Blaine, Emma and an evil society that picks them out when they escape a maze-runner type village. (Brother doesn't escape, he gets "heisted" or "taken", but whatever).
I thought that it was a decent book, though the characters loose flavor and personality half-way through, and I never really saw Grey as impulsive as the book tried to make him out to be. Many say that he "follows his gut" and that is something that they find attractive or admire about him, but "trusting his gut" seems to only apply to worrying about his brother when he is taken or when a girl decides that she is into him... sigh... I'd wish that hadn't become such an important part of the book as it was. Other than that the story grabbed me pretty well, and I am going to read the next book, with some hesitation as it was designed to be a trilogy and it is a dystopian novel.
The main characters are Grey, his brother Blaine, Emma and an evil society that picks them out when they escape a maze-runner type village. (Brother doesn't escape, he gets "heisted" or "taken", but whatever).
I thought that it was a decent book, though the characters loose flavor and personality half-way through, and I never really saw Grey as impulsive as the book tried to make him out to be. Many say that he "follows his gut" and that is something that they find attractive or admire about him, but "trusting his gut" seems to only apply to worrying about his brother when he is taken or when a girl decides that she is into him... sigh... I'd wish that hadn't become such an important part of the book as it was. Other than that the story grabbed me pretty well, and I am going to read the next book, with some hesitation as it was designed to be a trilogy and it is a dystopian novel.