Scott Sigler

{My thoughts} – I have become a huge fan of dystopian novels. I have read quite a few over the years and to me sometimes it’s like the same story but it’s altered slightly different. I know you know what I mean when I say that. This book had been compared to the Hunger Games {I’ve read}, Gone and the Maze Runner. All those series have wonderful popular ratings, so I thought why not and decided I’d give the book a chance. I usually just pick up a book and start reading it not really caring about what it’s about, but lately I have been in a reading rut, so I wanted to read something that would pull me in and hold my attention. This book successfully did that.

The way in which this book is written makes it entirely unique in terms of other books I have read in the past. I enjoyed that the characters and the readers were both in the same boat. That neither had more information than the other. As I was learning things and turning the pages, the characters were learning the same things while turning corners, kind of thing. I was drawn to it. The description within the pages can be described as brilliant, disturbing, and questionable considering it is a young adult book about twelve year-old children in a sense. However, it is so well written that those things just add to the appeal of the story and the book, and to the characters and their presentation.

I honestly think, that this author did an incredible job writing this book and it would make an interesting film adaptation. I can’t wait to begin book two in this trilogy and find out what is in store for our characters.… (lisätietoja)

{My thoughts} – I am without a doubt a fan of this series. I highly enjoyed the first book as it is a different type of distopian then I would normally read. However, I am glad that I chose to read it. It is highly engaging. It has a nice recap that helps you to remember what took place in the first book. It has a nice little adventure within the pages, it has mild like truly mild romance, it has a fight for leadership, it has the birthday children making new discoveries around many different corners.

I have learned to the the character of Em and to hate her creator Matilda. I feel that way about a lot of the characters verses their creators in this series. I have officially learned to despise Aramovsky. His character is the true definition of a snake – which helps to keep Em in her element. He brings out the best in her since he makes her life difficult every chance he gets, which I find to be rather interesting and entertaining at the same time.

Em struggles a lot within the pages of this book and the first. She is always trying to figure out who she is, who she wants to be and who she is meant to be. She always has this thoughts from her creators father that tells her to handle things in a savage like manner. And then she has opposite thoughts telling those thoughts to go away in some instances that are all her own.

I have come to enjoy the way this series has been written and I look forward to reading the last book in the trilogy very soon.

If you enjoyed books like Divergent and Lord of the Flies I am certain you will enjoy this books.… (lisätietoja)