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The "plot twist" really ruined this book for me.
I loved the main idea of this series from the first moment that I started to read it. The characters were ok, some nicer and rounder than others, which was fine by me. But what was this book really about?
These kids go through a lot of stuff on their journey to cure their only hope to survive. It's awful, but full of adventures, some places maybe too detailed in order for the pictures to fit in, but then this supposed plot twist happened and it was a HUGE dissapointment for me. What was the purpose of this book after all? I feel like it was only for the series to be a trilogy and not a duology, which I think is just as good, if written in the right manner.
However I give it 3 stars for the action-packed read, the development of some of the characters, and my favorite part: the romance.
I loved the main idea of this series from the first moment that I started to read it. The characters were ok, some nicer and rounder than others, which was fine by me. But what was this book really about?
These kids go through a lot of stuff on their journey to cure their only hope to survive. It's awful, but full of adventures, some places maybe too detailed in order for the pictures to fit in, but then this supposed plot twist happened and it was a HUGE dissapointment for me. What was the purpose of this book after all? I feel like it was only for the series to be a trilogy and not a duology, which I think is just as good, if written in the right manner.
However I give it 3 stars for the action-packed read, the development of some of the characters, and my favorite part: the romance.
I want to give this book 6 stars because it is one of the bests that I've ever read!
I started to read this accidentally, I didn't know which book to choose from my ebooks and opened it by chance and I decided that it must be fate. So I read on.
I'm so glad that I opened it. I loved every single page. The writing style hooked me from the first few paragraphs and I was so excited about it that I stayed up all night to finish it. I couldn't just put it away because it was impossible for me not to find out what will happen whit the spaceships and the characters.
I have to say I'm rather picky about characters, but here I loved each and one of them. I felt compassion even towards AIDAN, and at the end I couldn't decide if he was evil or not.
The best parts for me though were the Surveillance Camera Footage parts. I laughed so much at those, it was so funny how the narrator wanted to keep it professional but actually he was as excited as the reader. Let me give you an example:
"Stuck in the corridor, he's completely f...ed (oh, I'm sorry, "at a serious tactical disadvantage") if any visitors come calling."
At last it was a great read, I have to say that it's one of the books that I truly, whole-heartedly enjoyed, I had good laughs, and real tears for the loss of some characters, and I dare to say that it's the best sci-fi of this year.
I started to read this accidentally, I didn't know which book to choose from my ebooks and opened it by chance and I decided that it must be fate. So I read on.
I'm so glad that I opened it. I loved every single page. The writing style hooked me from the first few paragraphs and I was so excited about it that I stayed up all night to finish it. I couldn't just put it away because it was impossible for me not to find out what will happen whit the spaceships and the characters.
I have to say I'm rather picky about characters, but here I loved each and one of them. I felt compassion even towards AIDAN, and at the end I couldn't decide if he was evil or not.
The best parts for me though were the Surveillance Camera Footage parts. I laughed so much at those, it was so funny how the narrator wanted to keep it professional but actually he was as excited as the reader. Let me give you an example:
"Stuck in the corridor, he's completely f...ed (oh, I'm sorry, "at a serious tactical disadvantage") if any visitors come calling."
At last it was a great read, I have to say that it's one of the books that I truly, whole-heartedly enjoyed, I had good laughs, and real tears for the loss of some characters, and I dare to say that it's the best sci-fi of this year.
Oh my sweet lord of books. I can't believe that I thought the best book of the trilogy was the first one. This whole world had evolved in such a perfect way. I loved every minute of it.
Of course there were some strange factors, but these were there from the beginning, like the very strange love triangle(?) between Abe, Emma and Jake. But I am totally down to look over these things for the plot, and the other characters were pretty darn amazing. And that ending, though!
This trilogy is one that will definitely stay with me in the future, and maybe I will reread it, because I will miss these peculiar characters for sure!
Of course there were some strange factors, but these were there from the beginning, like the very strange love triangle(?) between Abe, Emma and Jake. But I am totally down to look over these things for the plot, and the other characters were pretty darn amazing. And that ending, though!
This trilogy is one that will definitely stay with me in the future, and maybe I will reread it, because I will miss these peculiar characters for sure!
This trilogy will definitely count as a dirty pleasure for me in the future. I just love the plot, this bizarre situation that the characters are in, their strange behaviour and everything. And that ending was so effing unexpected that my heart started racing so fast I thought I would faint! Now it's 2 a.m. and I will not sleep at all tonight because I have things to figure out and another book to go.
When I picked up the first book, I was expecting an easy, cliché love story that is cute but doesn't stick with me for a long time. Now, finishing off the trilogy, I have to say I was awfully wrong.
These books were addicting. You just read them one after the other mostly because of the wisely placed cliff-hangers, but these characters are just so beautifully described that even though they are all messed up in their own way, you can't help caring for them.
This third book really had everything I could ever wish for in a book: romance, suspance, crime, weirdness and all those nicely described sexy scenes. I was fascinated in a strange way by this plot that was unraveling step-by-step throughout the story, so smoothly you could barely observe it. I laughed, I cried, I got grossed out and it taught me a lot of things. I guess this is every book's purpose.
The only thing that bothered me was the fact that the twins were not entirely there, just like Gideon, whose name hovered over the entire book, but was rarely present. I hope that the next book from Easton's perspective will be a little bit more focused on these flat characters.
Other than that this book was amazing! I barelly finished it and I had already planned to reread the whole series because it was really that good.
These books were addicting. You just read them one after the other mostly because of the wisely placed cliff-hangers, but these characters are just so beautifully described that even though they are all messed up in their own way, you can't help caring for them.
This third book really had everything I could ever wish for in a book: romance, suspance, crime, weirdness and all those nicely described sexy scenes. I was fascinated in a strange way by this plot that was unraveling step-by-step throughout the story, so smoothly you could barely observe it. I laughed, I cried, I got grossed out and it taught me a lot of things. I guess this is every book's purpose.
The only thing that bothered me was the fact that the twins were not entirely there, just like Gideon, whose name hovered over the entire book, but was rarely present. I hope that the next book from Easton's perspective will be a little bit more focused on these flat characters.
Other than that this book was amazing! I barelly finished it and I had already planned to reread the whole series because it was really that good.
I've only read one book before this one by Kasie West, and it was very light, a little bit shallow, but cute and likeable. I thought this will be the same, but it wasn't, entirely.
Now, if you want to read this book because the two main characters are locked in a library throughout the book, well then you will be dissapointed. Because whereas the plot really starts with Dax and Autumn locked up, they don't really care about the books. But this didn't bother me that much.
I liked the book as a whole. Lovely characters, nice plot, little plot twists here and there and of course, the problems it deals with like anxiety, or family issues. It was nice to read, and I almost cried at one part for I was really feeling what Autumn felt at that moment.
Of course this book is really short, you can't expect it to describe the characters or their past moment by moment. But if this book would've been longer and more detailed, I think it could've been a really serious book. This way it was semi-serious?! Like it wanted to discuss some issues but not that much. This is why I don't give it 5 stars.
Actually, I would recommand this book for curing a reading slump because it is easy to read, to like, and to enjoy. :)
Now, if you want to read this book because the two main characters are locked in a library throughout the book, well then you will be dissapointed. Because whereas the plot really starts with Dax and Autumn locked up, they don't really care about the books. But this didn't bother me that much.
I liked the book as a whole. Lovely characters, nice plot, little plot twists here and there and of course, the problems it deals with like anxiety, or family issues. It was nice to read, and I almost cried at one part for I was really feeling what Autumn felt at that moment.
Of course this book is really short, you can't expect it to describe the characters or their past moment by moment. But if this book would've been longer and more detailed, I think it could've been a really serious book. This way it was semi-serious?! Like it wanted to discuss some issues but not that much. This is why I don't give it 5 stars.
Actually, I would recommand this book for curing a reading slump because it is easy to read, to like, and to enjoy. :)
I'm so thorn. I hated it and loved it at the same time.
Why I hated it?
The whole book was jumbled up, it felt like a mess, usually I wasn't able to decipher the character's reason for going one place or another. The ending was awful because it should've made a whole lot of sens, fitting like a puzzle, and giving you the relief of finally understanding, but while I was surprised by the outcome, it didn't give me any satisfaction. And of course, I hated all the characters starting with the abusive father, to Donatella the spoiled brat who isn't who you think she is, to our lost and innocent main character who blamed everything (even her being dumb) on fear, to Julian, the perfect dark boy, who lied to Scarlett so many times, still she followed him everywhere.
Why I loved it?
This whole world the book presents you is so unique you read it breathlessly, always wanting more magic. Even though I didn't like Scarlett it was nice seeing her development and at the end of the book she even stands her ground as the young, independent woman she wants to be. I loved how Caraval started out as something magical and beautiful and ended up being the cruelest thing I've ever read about.
Mostly because the book is so unique, I give it 4 stars, but I think there is some work to be done regarding the characters because I couldn't really care about them. Still the book was good, and I can't wait for the next one.
Why I hated it?
The whole book was jumbled up, it felt like a mess, usually I wasn't able to decipher the character's reason for going one place or another. The ending was awful because it should've made a whole lot of sens, fitting like a puzzle, and giving you the relief of finally understanding, but while I was surprised by the outcome, it didn't give me any satisfaction. And of course, I hated all the characters starting with the abusive father, to Donatella the spoiled brat who isn't who you think she is, to our lost and innocent main character who blamed everything (even her being dumb) on fear, to Julian, the perfect dark boy, who lied to Scarlett so many times, still she followed him everywhere.
Why I loved it?
This whole world the book presents you is so unique you read it breathlessly, always wanting more magic. Even though I didn't like Scarlett it was nice seeing her development and at the end of the book she even stands her ground as the young, independent woman she wants to be. I loved how Caraval started out as something magical and beautiful and ended up being the cruelest thing I've ever read about.
Mostly because the book is so unique, I give it 4 stars, but I think there is some work to be done regarding the characters because I couldn't really care about them. Still the book was good, and I can't wait for the next one.
2 stars.
I hated this book just as much as I loved it.
The first half, was a jumbled up mess. It started off nicely, than took off on a boring and cliché-like path. I live in Romania so this whole vampire story just makes me roll my eyes. I felt like this book wanted to be a bad copy of Twilight, and not even Twilight was exceptionally good. This "love" Echo and Thorn had was really annoying me, her being so attached to him even though he did NOTHING in the world to accomplish that. He was just rich, handsome and misterious, and she actually needed a distraction from Midnight. Actually, not a relationship from the book made sense to me, Echo and her family were as distant as they could be, I didn't really feel sorry for Midnight as I hated her from the start, along with all the characters from the book, and there was Thorn's messed up relationship with his family, and Luna's relationship with James, and Mattie abandoning Echo when she found herself a girlfriend and Daniel just always being a third wheel... I don't know, I just feel like there was no true connection between the characters nor the reader and the characters. Besides these things, the ending of the book was just too fast, Echo was behaving like she saw dead people trying to kill her aunt everydamnday, and the fact that Thorn has fangs was so exciting for her I thought the next line will be: Echo peed her pants from excitement. Annoying.
But actually I liked the idea of the book and I have to say that the ending intrigued me. I was really curious about everything I didn't know, so after all the things I hated, I read on. And at the end I was expecting to find out at least some of the things brought up in the book, but I didn't.
So with a huge dissapointment and a million questions in my heart I have to say: I don't think I will go on with this series.
I hated this book just as much as I loved it.
The first half, was a jumbled up mess. It started off nicely, than took off on a boring and cliché-like path. I live in Romania so this whole vampire story just makes me roll my eyes. I felt like this book wanted to be a bad copy of Twilight, and not even Twilight was exceptionally good. This "love" Echo and Thorn had was really annoying me, her being so attached to him even though he did NOTHING in the world to accomplish that. He was just rich, handsome and misterious, and she actually needed a distraction from Midnight. Actually, not a relationship from the book made sense to me, Echo and her family were as distant as they could be, I didn't really feel sorry for Midnight as I hated her from the start, along with all the characters from the book, and there was Thorn's messed up relationship with his family, and Luna's relationship with James, and Mattie abandoning Echo when she found herself a girlfriend and Daniel just always being a third wheel... I don't know, I just feel like there was no true connection between the characters nor the reader and the characters. Besides these things, the ending of the book was just too fast, Echo was behaving like she saw dead people trying to kill her aunt everydamnday, and the fact that Thorn has fangs was so exciting for her I thought the next line will be: Echo peed her pants from excitement. Annoying.
But actually I liked the idea of the book and I have to say that the ending intrigued me. I was really curious about everything I didn't know, so after all the things I hated, I read on. And at the end I was expecting to find out at least some of the things brought up in the book, but I didn't.
So with a huge dissapointment and a million questions in my heart I have to say: I don't think I will go on with this series.
Nice one.
It all started the same, the boy and the girl on a spaceship, they love each other but the girl has doubts. Than comes the bad boy who seems to have a crush on the girl and vice versa. But what happens after the other spaceship comes to kidnap all the girls from the first spaceship? Chaos.
Man, this book was so much more interesting than I would have thought. And I really liked the presence of the "God issue" that is always present on Earth. The plot was pretty simple (-1 star) but I really liked the character development, and that it had a Lord of the flies vibe.
It all started the same, the boy and the girl on a spaceship, they love each other but the girl has doubts. Than comes the bad boy who seems to have a crush on the girl and vice versa. But what happens after the other spaceship comes to kidnap all the girls from the first spaceship? Chaos.
Man, this book was so much more interesting than I would have thought. And I really liked the presence of the "God issue" that is always present on Earth. The plot was pretty simple (-1 star) but I really liked the character development, and that it had a Lord of the flies vibe.