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A review by slavicreader
The Catalyst by Helena Coggan
4.0
I won a copy of this book through a Goodreads Giveaway and I am so happy that I won this exact book because I don't think another book would have been as good as this one.
I don't understand how everyone isn't talking about this book! I personally thought that this book was way better than the well-known and over-hyped Red Queen everyone seems to be loving lately.
The story was told with such a mature feel to it while it was still easy to keep up with and understand what was going on. When I imagine a story written by someone intelligent - intelligent that you can feel it by the way they write I image math textbooks and books about philosophy and what not. I would have never imaged a young adult book written with such a voice.
I didn't really know much about the book before I picked it up only that it was being compared to Divergent. This is was nothing like Divergent - it was so much more.
The prologue was highly confusing at first. Every time I came up with a theory on what was happening the story took a different turn and, by the end of it (still talking about the prologue) I was questioning whether this was the same book that was being compared to Divergent. Did they even send me the right book?
At first it took a bit until I settled into the story but it didn't felt like a lot compared to the series of events that happened in the book. This is one of those books that contain such long chain of events that you start to question whether it hasn't been years since you started the book. There was just so much happening! Whenever I thought right, this is probably where the book ends and starts getting boring it never came to that.
And OhMyGod the last few chapets. OH. MY. GOD. YOU LIED TO ME [HELENA (it's okay to use your name right?)]! - I did actually shout that out write reading. That's a first.
Honestly I would be okay if this where just a stand-alone because I like the story like this. What if it goes downhill like the Divergent trilogy did?
The only problem I had with this book was that sometimes I would start reading a chapter and expected it to be told from Rose's perspective when sometimes it wouldn't be. Sometimes it was hard to tell whose perspective we where following.
Anyhow, I loved this book and I will be picking up the next book - I think this is not a stand-alone anyway.
I don't understand how everyone isn't talking about this book! I personally thought that this book was way better than the well-known and over-hyped Red Queen everyone seems to be loving lately.
The story was told with such a mature feel to it while it was still easy to keep up with and understand what was going on. When I imagine a story written by someone intelligent - intelligent that you can feel it by the way they write I image math textbooks and books about philosophy and what not. I would have never imaged a young adult book written with such a voice.
I didn't really know much about the book before I picked it up only that it was being compared to Divergent. This is was nothing like Divergent - it was so much more.
The prologue was highly confusing at first. Every time I came up with a theory on what was happening the story took a different turn and, by the end of it (still talking about the prologue) I was questioning whether this was the same book that was being compared to Divergent. Did they even send me the right book?
At first it took a bit until I settled into the story but it didn't felt like a lot compared to the series of events that happened in the book. This is one of those books that contain such long chain of events that you start to question whether it hasn't been years since you started the book. There was just so much happening! Whenever I thought right, this is probably where the book ends and starts getting boring it never came to that.
And OhMyGod the last few chapets. OH. MY. GOD. YOU LIED TO ME [HELENA (it's okay to use your name right?)]! - I did actually shout that out write reading. That's a first.
Honestly I would be okay if this where just a stand-alone because I like the story like this. What if it goes downhill like the Divergent trilogy did?
The only problem I had with this book was that sometimes I would start reading a chapter and expected it to be told from Rose's perspective when sometimes it wouldn't be. Sometimes it was hard to tell whose perspective we where following.
Anyhow, I loved this book and I will be picking up the next book - I think this is not a stand-alone anyway.