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Dare Mighty Things by Heather Kaczynski
4.0

I really enjoyed this, but I was a bit up and down with it. The premise was good, I'm looking forward to the sequel. The dialogue is a bit pedestrian and it irked me for the first bit of the book but once I got into it, I didn't notice it anymore. Cassie is also a really annoying protagonist in the beginning, but if she bothers you I encourage you to stick it out. She has great growth in the book and her charcter choices are intentional.

This book harkens to that "dystopian competion/faction" feel but in a way that read fresh. I liked the science explored in the book, it wasn't super outlandish. It feels really predictable in the beginning but I was continuously surprised as the story kept taking little twists to differentiate from old tropes.

My biggest let down was unfortunately at the end, where the story took a turn that wasn't bad or poorly written, just not where I wanted to go exactly, and ultimately led me to drop a star when combined with my earlier qualms about the dialogue. I will be continuing the duology though!