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jennybeastie 's review for:
Carve the Mark
by Veronica Roth
Ok, I really liked Divergent, so I was interested in this new series. And I like the science fiction aspect of it -- new worlds, new cultures, imaginative settings. And, honestly, it started out well and I was getting into the Kereseth family. And then.
Well, it all fell apart, and it never really came back together again. That fleeting first couple of chapters was the only real stab at character development. The plot kinda plods along, but I was ok with that -- at least portions of it were pretty. I had a hard time buying most of the Noavek/Shotet motivations, and I really couldn't reconcile the debilitating portion of Cyra's currentgift with her status as an elite warrior. It just seemed to be so random -- most of the time, she's incapacitated with pain, but not when she's practicing? Incapacitated with pain is incapacitated with pain. Pain isn't a thing you power through when it's at an incapacitating level. Or at least, that's my opinion and nothing in this book managed to convince me otherwise.
The love story seemed flat, the plot twist was visible from pretty far off, the darn thing is unresolved at the end and I honestly don't care enough to pick up a sequel. Disappointed. It felt like watching a bad movie that never resolved into the truly terrible trainwreck that would make it a cult classic.
Well, it all fell apart, and it never really came back together again. That fleeting first couple of chapters was the only real stab at character development. The plot kinda plods along, but I was ok with that -- at least portions of it were pretty. I had a hard time buying most of the Noavek/Shotet motivations, and I really couldn't reconcile the debilitating portion of Cyra's currentgift with her status as an elite warrior. It just seemed to be so random -- most of the time, she's incapacitated with pain, but not when she's practicing? Incapacitated with pain is incapacitated with pain. Pain isn't a thing you power through when it's at an incapacitating level. Or at least, that's my opinion and nothing in this book managed to convince me otherwise.
The love story seemed flat, the plot twist was visible from pretty far off, the darn thing is unresolved at the end and I honestly don't care enough to pick up a sequel. Disappointed. It felt like watching a bad movie that never resolved into the truly terrible trainwreck that would make it a cult classic.