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Reached
by Ally Condie
I'm feeling generous with that second star. This whole series was a mess to me. The vision of the dystopian society was so vague, and there was just so much borrowed "stuff"--conflicts, love triangles, blah, blah blah. (I did actually like the three colored pills--I was happy with where that all went.) Overall, I struggled to get through this book, and I wanted to like it so much because the author is my spirit animal who once taught High School English and then decided to start writing (when did she find time? I want that time to take these ideas and actually get them on paper. No time. Ugh.)
Here's what I did like: the devotion to poetry and literature and the message that it can free us, that any of us can create art and be artists, but if we do not have the freedom to do so, we are repressed. I loved the Dylan Thomas poem references (I love that poem.)
Sorry, Ally Condie. I really like and respect you--I just could not get into this story, and like many trilogies, the third book was just bad--it's hard to keep a story idea going for 1300 or so pages. There just wasn't enough here. I hate to say it, but this was one of my least favorite dystopian novels (and I have by no means read them all--I get dystopia'd out pretty quickly!)
*Plus, I fly through books. This one took me FOREVER because I just couldn't keep going, and it should have been a quick read.
Here's what I did like: the devotion to poetry and literature and the message that it can free us, that any of us can create art and be artists, but if we do not have the freedom to do so, we are repressed. I loved the Dylan Thomas poem references (I love that poem.)
Sorry, Ally Condie. I really like and respect you--I just could not get into this story, and like many trilogies, the third book was just bad--it's hard to keep a story idea going for 1300 or so pages. There just wasn't enough here. I hate to say it, but this was one of my least favorite dystopian novels (and I have by no means read them all--I get dystopia'd out pretty quickly!)
*Plus, I fly through books. This one took me FOREVER because I just couldn't keep going, and it should have been a quick read.