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A review by agameofbooks
Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth
3.0
ARC provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
The Dark One, a Chosen One, a prophecy (made by a woman named Sibyl), your soul placed in an object… Is this Harry Potter? Okay, it’s nothing like Harry Potter really, but throwing these facts into your face at the very beginning of the story did feel a little off. Like the writer forgot how to use her own creativity and based her story off someone else’s.
Chosen Ones ended up being an urban fantasy story set in Chicago where five teenagers beat a villain named The Dark One 10 years ago. They’re still living in the aftermath of everything that happened when they’re sucked into an alternate version of Chicago and have to beat their Dark One, who is called The Resurrectionist there, once again or order to be able to go home.
The story is mixed with different newspaper articles, research papers and excerpts from books. On the one hand it’s quite interesting to learn bits about the world and what happened this way, but on the other hand it’s also very annoying because the story is constantly interruptered, which disrupts the flow of the story.
Even after around 100 pages I found it hard to figure out where the story was going. At first I thought it would slowly tell uswhat had happened during the Dark One’s reign and final battle, but that was disclosed quite early already. At one point I just felt like I was walking around reading information that didn’t have a purpose. I really didn’t add to my enjoyment of the book. And then it was: okay, parallel universes it is.
The Dark One, a Chosen One, a prophecy (made by a woman named Sibyl), your soul placed in an object… Is this Harry Potter? Okay, it’s nothing like Harry Potter really, but throwing these facts into your face at the very beginning of the story did feel a little off. Like the writer forgot how to use her own creativity and based her story off someone else’s.
Chosen Ones ended up being an urban fantasy story set in Chicago where five teenagers beat a villain named The Dark One 10 years ago. They’re still living in the aftermath of everything that happened when they’re sucked into an alternate version of Chicago and have to beat their Dark One, who is called The Resurrectionist there, once again or order to be able to go home.
The story is mixed with different newspaper articles, research papers and excerpts from books. On the one hand it’s quite interesting to learn bits about the world and what happened this way, but on the other hand it’s also very annoying because the story is constantly interruptered, which disrupts the flow of the story.
Even after around 100 pages I found it hard to figure out where the story was going. At first I thought it would slowly tell uswhat had happened during the Dark One’s reign and final battle, but that was disclosed quite early already. At one point I just felt like I was walking around reading information that didn’t have a purpose. I really didn’t add to my enjoyment of the book. And then it was: okay, parallel universes it is.