A review by bookishbyso
The Elites by Natasha Ngan

2.0

This is another one of those rare DNF books for me. I thought I was going to like it. I really really wanted to like it. After all it's a YA dystopian type of book written by an Asian woman with an Asian setting and the coolest synopsis and an Asian MC. I thought to myself "YA dystopian diversity! what?! This is going to be amazing!". But nope, it wasn't. Not even close in fact. The writing was so terrible I felt like my brain was melting. The characters were just all so flat and boring, so 2 dimensional that I just couldn't for the life of me bring myself to give 2 shits about any of them frankly. Not to mention the amount of "WTFery" moments I had with the unexplained frankly strange shit that was going on. It makes me so mad when I come across books that have SO much potential but then they just DON'T. DELIVER. I swear it makes my blood boil.

I may at some point in the very distant future try and give this another shot, but it's not very likely. I don't particularly recommend this book to anyone I'm afraid.