A review by scythefranz
Taken by Erin Bowman

4.0

"Second chance is not the same as forgiveness."

Oftentimes, I don't read the blurb. I usually add books to my list because of the cover and the genre. By genre, I mean dystopia or sci-fi most of the time. And Taken is one of those books. I really love the cover of this book like seriously.

When I started reading the book, I have no idea what it was all about but after a few chapters, I understand what the book wants to deliver to me. Though I sense a well-used plot of something about "walls", "experiments", "rebels", I don't care because I enjoyed reading this one and I devoured it in a matter of hours.

I find the writing simply to grasp and understand, though I also sense something off about it which occasionally bothered me. However, I can't pinpoint it out. The flow of the story in the beginning, was quite rushed for me and the detailing appeared to be lacking in minimum sense. Nevertheless, the author built the world in a good way, unraveling the mysteries carefully, answering the questions in intricate way and supplying twists unexpectedly.

The only problem is that the origin of the battle between the AmEast and AmWest wasn't furnished well or I just didn't pay attention? (The blame is on me, I think. Hah!). The characterization was also good though I really thought that the point of view, at first, belongs to a girl but I sit corrected, it was a boy. It was also quite off for me that the main character easily accepts that he was a product of an experiment or something like that.

Anyway, a good read.