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ariw 's review for:
Chosen Ones
by Veronica Roth
Ahhh, I mean this was all good fun (though it veered off in a totally different direction than expected, and lost touch with a few characters it had spent a lot of time building up), and the pacing makes a lot more sense now that I see it's the first in a series. The premise was fun, the characters were fun, the world building was fun. The ending was... kind of horrifying, and I think most of that was intentional, but after finishing the full implications of the ending sunk in a little bit and it began to feel (unintentionally) awfully, abstractly colonial, and the full horror of it is sticking around a lot longer than I would like for a book that was until that point, just damn good fun.
(Also the only thing that reminded me this wasn't YA is the fact that the characters ages kept being mentioned as approximately somewhere mid-late 20's-ish)
Still, I'll happily read the second - and hope it takes the arid taste of the ending away.
(Also the only thing that reminded me this wasn't YA is the fact that the characters ages kept being mentioned as approximately somewhere mid-late 20's-ish)
Still, I'll happily read the second - and hope it takes the arid taste of the ending away.