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Just finished the second book in this mediocre trilogy (yeah im judging). Kinda mad that other reviewers were right about this book. Crossed was basically just a placeholder until what i can assume will be the awesome finale of this trilogy. Hopefully.... Hopefully the nxt book will be a bit better...
Another review....a better review....coming tomorrow :)
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Okay, here comes my awesome review. I don't mean to sound egotistical but i just wanted to get you ready. Alrighty. You know, for the most part, second books fail when compared to the first book in the trilogy. But, like I said earlier, Matched wasn't all that good so that rule pattern should be irrelevant. However, like with so many other qualities of this book, it continues to defy certain literary stereotypes. And not necessarily in a good way.
So, we find Cassia (I'm starting to hate her name. At first it was cute but then it started reminding me of like a made up version of the electronic company : 'Casio') and Ky separated from each other. Boo Hoo. Cassia is like a field worker or something in one province and Ky digs things up or something in another. One day, after trading Ky's compass to one of those trader people, Cassia ends up getting on an airship to the province Ky has just escaped from. Cassia (stalker) with the help of this girl named Indie and that one boy, trail, stalk really, Ky and his friends across the valley. Cassia is kind of looking for the rising too. Ky, on the other hand, pretty much hates the rising because of what it did to his parents or whatever. And you know...it's conflicting.
Heads up: the Rising is basically this rebellion against the oh so evil Society.
I'm not sure if saying that Cassia and Ky found each other would be considered a spoiler...Oops. Well since i already said it I guess it's too late. It doesn't really matter anyway. The whole darn story is about this little journey Cassia, Ky, Indie and Eli make to find the goshdarn rising or whatever. Throughout my reading of this book, I kept wanting something more to happen. Some kind of disaster. The Society finding them. Something! .
But what did I get...? A few kisses here, a few tears there, some threats blah blah. Most of the story was explanatory, talking about the past because there was nothing going on in the actual present (and when I say the past, I mostly mean the pastpast. As in, when they were little and all. If they had talked about the recent past more, I may have given this book four stars). Even the fact that the POV switched between Ky and Cassia didn't help. Cassia's POV was annoying and Ky was always telling some nostalgic story. Ugh. It was so irritating. Oh, and i know that this is mostly my fault, but I couldn't even remember what really happened in the first book. I know that the second book in a trilogy isn't really suppose to explain anything that happened in the previous novel, but for the first half of the book, I felt lost. I couldn't remember how anyone had gotten where they were. The only thing I could truly remember was Xander, Bram and the poems and all. I kept getting Matched mixed up with Delirium by Lauren Oliver.
My bad.
So in short, after reading the second book in this sorry trilogy (well, at least compared to other futuristic trilogies I've read. Which isn't saying much. If I wasn't so biased I might actually like this trilogy more) I'm not all that eager to read the final book. Oh, I'll read it! But you won't see me running to any bookshelves for it. That's just how it has to be.
Another review....a better review....coming tomorrow :)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Okay, here comes my awesome review. I don't mean to sound egotistical but i just wanted to get you ready. Alrighty. You know, for the most part, second books fail when compared to the first book in the trilogy. But, like I said earlier, Matched wasn't all that good so that rule pattern should be irrelevant. However, like with so many other qualities of this book, it continues to defy certain literary stereotypes. And not necessarily in a good way.
So, we find Cassia (I'm starting to hate her name. At first it was cute but then it started reminding me of like a made up version of the electronic company : 'Casio') and Ky separated from each other. Boo Hoo. Cassia is like a field worker or something in one province and Ky digs things up or something in another. One day, after trading Ky's compass to one of those trader people, Cassia ends up getting on an airship to the province Ky has just escaped from. Cassia (stalker) with the help of this girl named Indie and that one boy, trail, stalk really, Ky and his friends across the valley. Cassia is kind of looking for the rising too. Ky, on the other hand, pretty much hates the rising because of what it did to his parents or whatever. And you know...it's conflicting.
Heads up: the Rising is basically this rebellion against the oh so evil Society.
I'm not sure if saying that Cassia and Ky found each other would be considered a spoiler...Oops. Well since i already said it I guess it's too late. It doesn't really matter anyway. The whole darn story is about this little journey Cassia, Ky, Indie and Eli make to find the goshdarn rising or whatever. Throughout my reading of this book, I kept wanting something more to happen. Some kind of disaster. The Society finding them. Something! .
But what did I get...? A few kisses here, a few tears there, some threats blah blah. Most of the story was explanatory, talking about the past because there was nothing going on in the actual present (and when I say the past, I mostly mean the pastpast. As in, when they were little and all. If they had talked about the recent past more, I may have given this book four stars). Even the fact that the POV switched between Ky and Cassia didn't help. Cassia's POV was annoying and Ky was always telling some nostalgic story. Ugh. It was so irritating. Oh, and i know that this is mostly my fault, but I couldn't even remember what really happened in the first book. I know that the second book in a trilogy isn't really suppose to explain anything that happened in the previous novel, but for the first half of the book, I felt lost. I couldn't remember how anyone had gotten where they were. The only thing I could truly remember was Xander, Bram and the poems and all. I kept getting Matched mixed up with Delirium by Lauren Oliver.
My bad.
So in short, after reading the second book in this sorry trilogy (well, at least compared to other futuristic trilogies I've read. Which isn't saying much. If I wasn't so biased I might actually like this trilogy more) I'm not all that eager to read the final book. Oh, I'll read it! But you won't see me running to any bookshelves for it. That's just how it has to be.