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thedevster's Reviews (89)
I had started reading this book about a year ago and only got half way through and just couldn't keep my focus. Man was I wrong for not sticking with it.
I read this book and gave my best friend recaps of it as I read because I couldn't just not share this story with someone.
I love the entire world that Shusterman has built, don't get me wrong I still have many questions and theories as things were left unaddressed, but this utopian/dystopian society is a memorable one. I am all here for dystopian future societies, and have read my fair share of books where the world building just wasn't there, but Shusterman outdid himself with this one. Although I will criticize the pacing in the beginning of the book, once you get past it, you will not want to put it down.
For characters, I think that the main characters, Rowan and Citra, were crafted beautifully from the start and their progress throughout the book stayed true to their characters. I LOVED Scythe Faraday and how he mentored the two apprentices. Don't even get me started on Scythe Goddard and how from the get-go he was just destined to be the evil of the story. I wanted to hold Scythe Volta in my arms, a compassionate person just swept under the tide of Goddard. Scythe Curie was immediately a mother figure to me, I knew that when she took Citra under her wing that it was going to be great for Citra's character development.
To be honest I'm tired of writing, but just know that this book is one to read. I am eager to read Thunderhead now and see how this series further develops after that whirlwind of an ending (which was kind of predictable in a sense but still threw you for a loop).
I read this book and gave my best friend recaps of it as I read because I couldn't just not share this story with someone.
I love the entire world that Shusterman has built, don't get me wrong I still have many questions and theories as things were left unaddressed, but this utopian/dystopian society is a memorable one. I am all here for dystopian future societies, and have read my fair share of books where the world building just wasn't there, but Shusterman outdid himself with this one. Although I will criticize the pacing in the beginning of the book, once you get past it, you will not want to put it down.
For characters, I think that the main characters, Rowan and Citra, were crafted beautifully from the start and their progress throughout the book stayed true to their characters. I LOVED Scythe Faraday and how he mentored the two apprentices. Don't even get me started on Scythe Goddard and how from the get-go he was just destined to be the evil of the story. I wanted to hold Scythe Volta in my arms, a compassionate person just swept under the tide of Goddard. Scythe Curie was immediately a mother figure to me, I knew that when she took Citra under her wing that it was going to be great for Citra's character development.
To be honest I'm tired of writing, but just know that this book is one to read. I am eager to read Thunderhead now and see how this series further develops after that whirlwind of an ending (which was kind of predictable in a sense but still threw you for a loop).
god i’m so sorry to tracy wolff but i hated how grace was written in this book. at every like conflict it was like “i understand every aspect of every situation and can understand the reasons why people act the way that they do” also “i am the most compassionate person and i love my friends without ever saying it”, do you get my drift..? i struggled to finish this. but do not get me wrong i will be reading the next 2 books she has lined up PFFTT guilty pleasures.. we all have them..
too many changing perspectives i had to keep flipping back to the beginning of the chapter to figure out who’s head i was in.
also i felt like this book was so short but so long at the same time, idk i just felt like the pacing was slow for the first quarter and then it was just nonstop something was happening and it felt a little chaotic.
i could tell right from the beginning who the true antagonist was, very predictable.. even simon’s parents: too predictable. however it was what i was expecting from this type of ya
the romance also didn’t make sense to me? like we kissed and we are realizing we are gay but have been enemies for 7 years: “wanna be my bf :*” HUH idk not enough emotion for me and felt like the smallest side plot ever like it almost didn’t even have to be included in this book
didn’t hate it, just would have enjoyed it more in sophomore year of high school :p
also i felt like this book was so short but so long at the same time, idk i just felt like the pacing was slow for the first quarter and then it was just nonstop something was happening and it felt a little chaotic.
i could tell right from the beginning who the true antagonist was, very predictable.. even simon’s parents: too predictable. however it was what i was expecting from this type of ya
the romance also didn’t make sense to me? like we kissed and we are realizing we are gay but have been enemies for 7 years: “wanna be my bf :*” HUH idk not enough emotion for me and felt like the smallest side plot ever like it almost didn’t even have to be included in this book
didn’t hate it, just would have enjoyed it more in sophomore year of high school :p
i was not mad at this series but rather disappointed.
i saw many people hype this series up and the first book i just thought was not good, i think that this one was the most enjoyable for me, and the second book falls in the middle.
i just wasn't blown away from it at all. the writing was mediocre for me, it didn't make me feel anything... i was just reading a story. i like to feel.
might recommend it to someone younger in high school but if you're out of high school it's just a little too ya for me. some people are here for the ya writing but i need like ya concept books with adult writing and this was just not one.
i could never find a way to like Simon, i'm sorry but i do not think he was that enjoyable of a character. Penelope and Shepard were interesting characters, i loved their banter and just how outrageous they were. Baz was cool, vamps are cool, case closed.
that's it, i don't have much to say. i wasn't enthralled.
i saw many people hype this series up and the first book i just thought was not good, i think that this one was the most enjoyable for me, and the second book falls in the middle.
i just wasn't blown away from it at all. the writing was mediocre for me, it didn't make me feel anything... i was just reading a story. i like to feel.
might recommend it to someone younger in high school but if you're out of high school it's just a little too ya for me. some people are here for the ya writing but i need like ya concept books with adult writing and this was just not one.
i could never find a way to like Simon, i'm sorry but i do not think he was that enjoyable of a character. Penelope and Shepard were interesting characters, i loved their banter and just how outrageous they were. Baz was cool, vamps are cool, case closed.
that's it, i don't have much to say. i wasn't enthralled.
