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A review by nooralshanti
The 100 by Kass Morgan
1.0
Let's face it, the reason I finished reading this book was to leave this scathing review. It was pretty obvious from the very beginning that it was badly written, but I figured I might as well read it to the end since it was short. The question is: why did I even bother? What made me think this could have any redeeming qualities? The premise lured me.
The Earth was destroyed a long time ago by some type of nuclear disaster. The people who live on a spaceship are running out of air because their ship really wasn't built to last this long. They decide to send 100 juvenile delinquents down to the Earth to test out if the Earth is habitable.
It's an interesting premise, right?
That's why I started watching the show on Netflix. With the show, I kept watching because it kept bringing up interesting characters and ideas and conflicts, but the show always ended up having the characters do the most horrible things. (And by horrible I mean they literally committed massacres and stuff). So when I noticed in the credits that it was based on a book I thought I'd give it a try. Maybe the book would take the time to carefully and reasonably explore the interesting premise the show started with and do it more justice. Maybe, instead of suggesting that there was no way to make a morally right choice like the show did, the book might actually show the characters making good decisions.
LOL
This book was so bad it's kind of hilarious. It's told from four points of view. All teenagers. All completely obsessed with kissing someone or other. Literally every chapter had to contain people kissing. And there were also flashbacks showing, not interesting backstory or information about the society of the spaceship or anything like that - no - these flashbacks existed just to show us the characters kissing at various different times in the past. And that's pretty much all there was to this book.
No grounders. No actual science fiction. Definitely no real or remotely realistic science. No plot.
And yet it somehow got published and had an entire TV show based on it. If you're interested in the premise (and don't mind having constant rage because of how messed up the character's moral choices are) then you're better off watching the TV show. If you're interested in real science fiction just look elsewhere because you certainly won't find it here.
The Earth was destroyed a long time ago by some type of nuclear disaster. The people who live on a spaceship are running out of air because their ship really wasn't built to last this long. They decide to send 100 juvenile delinquents down to the Earth to test out if the Earth is habitable.
It's an interesting premise, right?
That's why I started watching the show on Netflix. With the show, I kept watching because it kept bringing up interesting characters and ideas and conflicts, but the show always ended up having the characters do the most horrible things. (And by horrible I mean they literally committed massacres and stuff). So when I noticed in the credits that it was based on a book I thought I'd give it a try. Maybe the book would take the time to carefully and reasonably explore the interesting premise the show started with and do it more justice. Maybe, instead of suggesting that there was no way to make a morally right choice like the show did, the book might actually show the characters making good decisions.
LOL
This book was so bad it's kind of hilarious. It's told from four points of view. All teenagers. All completely obsessed with kissing someone or other. Literally every chapter had to contain people kissing. And there were also flashbacks showing, not interesting backstory or information about the society of the spaceship or anything like that - no - these flashbacks existed just to show us the characters kissing at various different times in the past. And that's pretty much all there was to this book.
No grounders. No actual science fiction. Definitely no real or remotely realistic science. No plot.
And yet it somehow got published and had an entire TV show based on it. If you're interested in the premise (and don't mind having constant rage because of how messed up the character's moral choices are) then you're better off watching the TV show. If you're interested in real science fiction just look elsewhere because you certainly won't find it here.