hannahmarieb19 's review for:

Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth
3.0

More like 3.5 stars. I have mix feelings about this book. I did like the writing and the relationship between Akos and Cyra, but there were just so many problems with this book. The pacing is incredibly slow and the universe Veronica Roth created was confusing. I know about the racist undertones and the romanticization of chronic pain that other readers have noticed. I personally did not see it as prominently as those other readers did, but they were still there. This is definitely not a great work of Veronica Roth and I am hoping that the Fates Divide is better.