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A review by sphinx91
The Hive by Barry Lyga, Morgan Baden
2.0
All in all its not a bad book and I can see why YA may enjoy it. It is well-written, catchy and deals with important topic of social media's influence in our everyday lives and communications.
Story itself is kind of mash up of 'Fahrenheit 451', '1984', Hunger Games and 'The Purge'. It is not fault per se but that's why I think that authors could have tried a bit harder to incorporate the characters and storylines which they created but left hanging after awhile.
Simplicity of the ending made me feel that either book could have been shorter or longer (series for example). As I said, there were characters and storylines which could have been either left out or enforced. For example Trish, Sarah's betrayal, Cassie's dad's death, Alexandra, OHM, Rowan & co, Mom's army (perhaps it was the most pointless in my eyes). Of course those unused storylines offer authors enough material for writing another book but I just wish that authors would have tied up these ends better.
Story itself is kind of mash up of 'Fahrenheit 451', '1984', Hunger Games and 'The Purge'. It is not fault per se but that's why I think that authors could have tried a bit harder to incorporate the characters and storylines which they created but left hanging after awhile.
Simplicity of the ending made me feel that either book could have been shorter or longer (series for example). As I said, there were characters and storylines which could have been either left out or enforced. For example Trish, Sarah's betrayal, Cassie's dad's death, Alexandra, OHM, Rowan & co, Mom's army (perhaps it was the most pointless in my eyes). Of course those unused storylines offer authors enough material for writing another book but I just wish that authors would have tied up these ends better.