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A review by gracefulgracey
Starters by Lissa Price
3.0
I avoided this series long enough until I have nothing to read, so when a friend offered her unopened copy of this book I threw my doubts and grab it from her shelf. My doubts basically rooted from the cover. I’m such a book cover judger and sometimes I buy books not because of the reviews or recommendations from friends but because the cover attracts me. The cover of both Starters and Enders, unfortunately, really creep the hell out of me. The blank stare of the girl on the cover gave me chills (but I’m over it already), as if she was drugged unwillingly and she can’t do anything about it. But the story really got me flipping through the pages, finding out that it is a dystopian YA novel helps a lot. Well, almost a dystopian novel but definitely a YA and the fact that I’m a sucker for dystopian YA droves me to read it nonstop for two days until I realized there’s no more page to turn. So, I guess that is a good sign. Although, a part of it disturbs me, I know dystopian novels, of course, discusses hostile environment, it can’t erase the fact how twisted any form of slavery is. And it will always be one of the causes I will whole-heartedly help to eliminate in real life but it’s just a fictional story and the cruelty in the book is just in the book, so for now I have to live with it for a while.
One more, good point of this book is the protagonist. Callie bleeds with girl power and I know a lot of bookworms love it. (e.g. THG and Divergent) don’t consider me being a sexist, that’s just how book reading roll these days. I might give Enders a five star if it will surprise me and prove me wrong about the identity of the Old Man. Because I kinda have a wild guess about who the Old Man is. And if I’m right the whole story would be a lot harder to digest. It should be cleared out. What’s driving me nuts though, is how the bacterial spores are talking to each other? It totally freaks me out. So, for now I’ll give Starters 3 stars.
One more, good point of this book is the protagonist. Callie bleeds with girl power and I know a lot of bookworms love it. (e.g. THG and Divergent) don’t consider me being a sexist, that’s just how book reading roll these days. I might give Enders a five star if it will surprise me and prove me wrong about the identity of the Old Man. Because I kinda have a wild guess about who the Old Man is. And if I’m right the whole story would be a lot harder to digest. It should be cleared out. What’s driving me nuts though, is how the bacterial spores are talking to each other? It totally freaks me out. So, for now I’ll give Starters 3 stars.