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lilibetbombshell 's review for:
The Stranded
by Sarah Daniels
Real Rating: 3.5 / 5 Stars
You know, the blurb for this book says something about this book being like if The Hunger Games met 2022’s highly-successful novel Station Eleven, but in my opinion it didn’t remind me of either of those. You know what this book did remind me of, though? The Eleven Trilogy by Jerri Chisolm. Of course, Chisolm’s entertaining YA dystopian novels with similar themes except set underground don’t have the same brand recognition as Katniss Everdeen, but I just want to point out that I never once thought of The Hunger Games while reading The Stranded.
This book was a little above average. It was engaging and readable, with a solid plot (no matter how familiar it feels I’m almost always down for adventures and daring-dos on a ship) and some interesting (even colorful!) characters. The antagonist was deliciously sociopathic and full of hate stemming from a personal incident that he’s turned into a towering inferno of rage and transferred to just about everyone. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t even like himself and he just hasn’t realized it yet. I actually found the antagonist’s machinations to be the most entertaining parts of the book.
Sarah Daniels has a solid writing style and a good idea here. Some pages have said this is the first book in a series but others haven’t, so I don’t know if another book is on the way. This book certainly does leave room for more story in this universe, but it also could just stand alone without any follow-up. If Daniels did decide to write another book in this universe she has laid a very solid base in this book for the world she’s writing it in, giving it a solid history, a good current state of affairs, and a good working knowledge of who’s currently on what side and what they’re up to.
I’m not recommending to run out and buy it, but if you are a fan of this genre, it’s a solid enough entry to check it out.
Thanks to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Fire for granting me early access to this title in exchange for a fair and honest review.
File Under: YA Fiction/YA Mystery/YA Thriller/YA Suspense/Dystopian/Speculative Fiction
You know, the blurb for this book says something about this book being like if The Hunger Games met 2022’s highly-successful novel Station Eleven, but in my opinion it didn’t remind me of either of those. You know what this book did remind me of, though? The Eleven Trilogy by Jerri Chisolm. Of course, Chisolm’s entertaining YA dystopian novels with similar themes except set underground don’t have the same brand recognition as Katniss Everdeen, but I just want to point out that I never once thought of The Hunger Games while reading The Stranded.
This book was a little above average. It was engaging and readable, with a solid plot (no matter how familiar it feels I’m almost always down for adventures and daring-dos on a ship) and some interesting (even colorful!) characters. The antagonist was deliciously sociopathic and full of hate stemming from a personal incident that he’s turned into a towering inferno of rage and transferred to just about everyone. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t even like himself and he just hasn’t realized it yet. I actually found the antagonist’s machinations to be the most entertaining parts of the book.
Sarah Daniels has a solid writing style and a good idea here. Some pages have said this is the first book in a series but others haven’t, so I don’t know if another book is on the way. This book certainly does leave room for more story in this universe, but it also could just stand alone without any follow-up. If Daniels did decide to write another book in this universe she has laid a very solid base in this book for the world she’s writing it in, giving it a solid history, a good current state of affairs, and a good working knowledge of who’s currently on what side and what they’re up to.
I’m not recommending to run out and buy it, but if you are a fan of this genre, it’s a solid enough entry to check it out.
Thanks to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Fire for granting me early access to this title in exchange for a fair and honest review.
File Under: YA Fiction/YA Mystery/YA Thriller/YA Suspense/Dystopian/Speculative Fiction