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A review by simsbrarian
Grace by Elizabeth Scott
2.0
Total "Meh".
Wicked spoilers ahead. **************
Started out rather intense with the short chapters blinking back and forth in Grace's life as you slowly unwind the world of a distopian future where one man has set himself up as a God and the People who inhabit the Hills try their best to fight back. Grace finds herself trying to escape from this false God and the pressures of her own People who wish her to die as an Angel for the cause. She spends the majority of the book on a train to the border with false papers and a boy who symbolizes the entire cult of a nation choosing to follow the false God. Both are trying to run away from the pressures of this police state. Yet, the theories on both sides for why death is necessary for freedom are remarkably similar. There. I've just summed up the entire book and saved you a few hours.
It wasn't bad for the first half or so. If that was combined with the "bonus chapter" at the end it would have been a rocking shorter story. As it is given, though, the book is incredibly overlong at the last half as they bash that "we're both fighting for different causes but with the same results" mantrainto the reader Over and OVER again. The only character "growth" is Grace's realization of the above mantra and her traveling companion forcing her to realize that not dropping the bomb on the Minister might have saved her life (and his) but she still killed over 30 people! So, it had potential but totally lost it about half way through.
Wicked spoilers ahead. **************
Started out rather intense with the short chapters blinking back and forth in Grace's life as you slowly unwind the world of a distopian future where one man has set himself up as a God and the People who inhabit the Hills try their best to fight back. Grace finds herself trying to escape from this false God and the pressures of her own People who wish her to die as an Angel for the cause. She spends the majority of the book on a train to the border with false papers and a boy who symbolizes the entire cult of a nation choosing to follow the false God. Both are trying to run away from the pressures of this police state. Yet, the theories on both sides for why death is necessary for freedom are remarkably similar. There. I've just summed up the entire book and saved you a few hours.
It wasn't bad for the first half or so. If that was combined with the "bonus chapter" at the end it would have been a rocking shorter story. As it is given, though, the book is incredibly overlong at the last half as they bash that "we're both fighting for different causes but with the same results" mantrainto the reader Over and OVER again. The only character "growth" is Grace's realization of the above mantra and her traveling companion forcing her to realize that not dropping the bomb on the Minister might have saved her life (and his) but she still killed over 30 people! So, it had potential but totally lost it about half way through.