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100 Hours
A decadent spring break beach getaway becomes a terrifying survival story when six Miami teens are kidnapped.
Maddie is beyond done with her cousin Genesis’s entitled and shallow entourage. Genesis is so over Miami’s predictable social scene with its velvet ropes, petty power plays, and backstabbing boyfriends.
While Maddie craves family time for spring break, Genesis seeks novelty—like a last-minute getaway to an untouched beach in Colombia. And when Genesis wants something, it happens.
But paradise has its price. Dragged from their tents under the cover of dark, Genesis, Maddie, and their friends are kidnapped and held for ransom deep inside the jungle—with no diva left behind. It all feels so random to everyone except Genesis. She knows they were targeted for a reason. And that reason is her.
Now, as the hours count down, only one thing’s for certain: If the Miami hostages can’t thwart their captors’ plan, no one will make it out alive.
Maddie is beyond done with her cousin Genesis’s entitled and shallow entourage. Genesis is so over Miami’s predictable social scene with its velvet ropes, petty power plays, and backstabbing boyfriends.
While Maddie craves family time for spring break, Genesis seeks novelty—like a last-minute getaway to an untouched beach in Colombia. And when Genesis wants something, it happens.
But paradise has its price. Dragged from their tents under the cover of dark, Genesis, Maddie, and their friends are kidnapped and held for ransom deep inside the jungle—with no diva left behind. It all feels so random to everyone except Genesis. She knows they were targeted for a reason. And that reason is her.
Now, as the hours count down, only one thing’s for certain: If the Miami hostages can’t thwart their captors’ plan, no one will make it out alive.
368 pages, Hardcover
First published March 28, 2017
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A resident of Oklahoma, Rachel Vincent has a BA in English and an overactive imagination, and consistently finds the latter to be more practical. She shares her workspace with two black cats (Kaci and Nyx) and her # 1 fan. Rachel is older than she looks-seriously-and younger than she feels, but remains convinced that for every day she spends writing, one more day will be added to her lifespan.
A resident of Oklahoma, Rachel Vincent has a BA in English and an overactive imagination, and consistently finds the latter to be more practical. She shares her workspace with two black cats (Kaci and Nyx) and her # 1 fan. Rachel is older than she looks-seriously-and younger than she feels, but remains convinced that for every day she spends writing, one more day will be added to her lifespan.
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March 25, 2017
“I really admire the fashion risks you take, Maddie,” Neda says in a tone so convincing I’m not entirely sure I’m being mocked until she continues. “I could never pull off ‘discount chic.’”
Vincent has always been a bit hit and miss with me, though I really enjoyed both her YA The Stars Never Rise and her adult Menagerie and I'm always on the lookout for her latest work. However, 100 Hours was a complete miss.
I'm struggling to find a single good thing to say about it. It's like Jersey Shore with kidnapping. A bunch of extremely annoying, privileged teens get drunk, bitch about each other, cheat on each other, and generally be douchebags until they get kidnapped by a group of people they assume are soldiers. I gave it ample time to become good, holding back the negative opinion that was trying to break through in my mind, but honestly - who fucking cares about these people?
The two narrators - Genesis, and her cousin Maddie - are insufferable. Genesis opens the book with a bitching session about her "friend" who is "five pounds too heavy and four inches too short to ever have anything more than her face appear in Teen Vogue" and proceeds to cheat on her boyfriend, Holden, hooking up with guys in front of him. Holden later returns the favour. And Maddie is only marginally better - her superiority over being less slutty and less prone to drinking than Genesis and her friends just made her annoying.
100 Hours is about Genesis taking a bunch of her friends to Columbia for Spring break. After being reckless and stupid, the friends find themselves being taken hostage. It isn't until 1/3 of the way in that things start to actually happen, and by that point, the book was already losing my attention. I can understand postponing the action for character development, and yet I don't think we actually got much of that here - just a load of drinking, kissing, cheating and being repulsive. Seriously, everyone cheats on everyone. I couldn't like a single person.
But it’s exactly what it looks like—my boyfriend and my best friend are drunk and high, and moments away from hooking up right in front of me.
When a book takes place over 100 hours, you should really limit the amount of hours given over to drinking and kissing hot boys on the beach. But anyway. Even the drama feels silly and melodramatic. This group of clowns running around in the Columbian jungle, waving their arms and screaming. Can anyone take them seriously?
It's bad when you dislike characters so much that the thought of them being kidnapped and/or murdered doesn't move you at all. And, of course, there's no resolution. The cliffhanger ending sets it up for the next book... which I will not be reading.
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March 21, 2017
“Guerrillas are always kidnapping and murdering people in the jungle.”
“Kidnappings are passé,” Genesis assures her, before Nico’s head can explode. “Today’s fashionable guerrilla makes his money in illegal gold mining and extortion. Besides, anyone who tried to kidnap you would give you back within the hour.” She links her arm through Neda’s. “You’re an acquired taste.”
Six teens from Miami go to Colombia for spring break even though their parents think they're going elsewhere. How were they supposed to know they'd be kidnapped and held for ransom? Can things get any worse?
I had high expectations for 100 Hours. Blame it on how much I loved The Stars Never Rise and how much I would kill for an addictive YA contemporary thriller. I was ecstatic at the thought of Rachel Vincent bringing us just that. Unfortunately, bring me a YA thriller and require me to suspend my disbelief a bit too much and we have a problem. I know teens like to "have fun" by hooking up, underage drinking, and all that. But when you have guns practically pointed at your head a good amount of the day and the only hope of actually surviving is escape, you're not going to keep trying to get further with your crush of the moment. You might actually focus on the situation at hand. Putting that aside for now..
“So, if someone were to get hurt, how long would it take the rescue team to get here?”
Nico chuckles. “What makes you think they’d find us?”
Told in dual POVs through both Genesis and Maddie, we get a full view of the story. Sometimes their perspectives overlap giving us the other side of things. Genesis is the wealthy heiress of a large shipping company (think freight transport), while Maddie is her cousin of lesser means. Maddie and her brother only joined Genesis and her rich friends on the trip because they share a grandmother and she lives in Colombia. Genesis is set on not having the average vacation. She wants to experience what is so rarely experienced by others. And that means going out of their way to explore the untouched beaches through the jungle. No one could have predicted that their teenage drama was the least of their worries.
That’s what I want. The real Colombia. Places not listed on travel websites.
I’m not supposed to be in this bar. I’m not supposed to be in this country. But “supposed to” means less to me with every passing second. This is my life. This is my spring break.
There are no limits but those I set.
The story unfolds with a countdown. We start with the previous 100 hours and count down until we've managed to get ourselves into the hostage situation. It takes a bit more time than I would've liked getting to the real action in the story. Everything is getting set up before that, laying out the complex dynamics of the group, and introducing us to the friends they've made in Colombia. Maddie's diabetes adds an extra obstacle in the hostage situation, since she doesn't exactly have an abundance of insulin. I enjoyed the unexpected aspects involving politics. It gave the book more depth and helped to make up for the places it was lacking.
There are a few things that felt just too convenient. And I was being driven insane by everyone's need to hookup when other things should have been priority. I did still enjoy this book. I didn't see the twist at the end from a mile away. I wish my expectations weren't as high. Readers of young adult thrillers will enjoy, but definite emphasis on the young adult.
February 26, 2017
(I received an advance copy of this book for free. Thanks to HarperCollins and Edelweiss.)
This was a YA survival story, about a group of teens kidnapped in Columbia.
Genesis was an interesting character and I liked how she always assessed a situation and looked for the best plan of action before acting. I did feel sorry her at times though, especially when it seemed that more than one person had betrayed her.
The storyline in this was about Genesis and a group of her friends going to Colombia over spring break and getting kidnapped and ransomed by a group of people with guns. Among the friends were Genesis' cousins Maddie and Ryan, and half of the story was told from Maddie's point of view, whilst the other half was from Genesis' point of view. Maddie was diabetic, and running out of insulin which added some extra drama to the story, and we also got an unexpected death quite early on. I did find the story a little hard to get into at first, with so many different characters being introduced at once, but once I got to know everybody things were a bit easier to follow.
There was quite a bit of romantic drama going on as well, and some cheating too, but it didn't take away from the main story.
The ending to this left us with a cliff-hanger.
7 out of 10
"The barrel of a rifle slides inside my tent. I gasp and scramble backward, but can't tear my gaze from the muzzle aimed at my chest."
This was a YA survival story, about a group of teens kidnapped in Columbia.
Genesis was an interesting character and I liked how she always assessed a situation and looked for the best plan of action before acting. I did feel sorry her at times though, especially when it seemed that more than one person had betrayed her.
The storyline in this was about Genesis and a group of her friends going to Colombia over spring break and getting kidnapped and ransomed by a group of people with guns. Among the friends were Genesis' cousins Maddie and Ryan, and half of the story was told from Maddie's point of view, whilst the other half was from Genesis' point of view. Maddie was diabetic, and running out of insulin which added some extra drama to the story, and we also got an unexpected death quite early on. I did find the story a little hard to get into at first, with so many different characters being introduced at once, but once I got to know everybody things were a bit easier to follow.
There was quite a bit of romantic drama going on as well, and some cheating too, but it didn't take away from the main story.
The ending to this left us with a cliff-hanger.
7 out of 10
April 27, 2023
My teenaged years were filled with Rachel Vincent books. I read through Soul Screamers and The Shifters series far too many times to admit and I adored them. In recent years, I haven't found as many Rachel Vincent books out and about in my book buying journey, so I was pleasantly surprised to find 100 Hours through Book Outlet (one of my guilty pleasure websites for cheap books - not a sponsored call out, a "I've had no money and if you don't either, you have options" call out).
100 Hours follows a group of teens, very rich teens, as they go to Columbia for Spring Break. Does that sound like the smartest idea? Well, it depends. How much do you know about Columbia? In the timeline of this book, there's a lot of hostility between the US and Columbia, so that would be something to consider. Generally speaking, no, it wasn't a smart idea for them to go out on their own in Columbia, try to go on adventures without licensed/professional tour guides, and then try to be snarky about their richness.
Anywho, they get kidnapped. Surprise, surprise, right? Spring Break gone sour. The team has to work together to try to get away, but that won't happen in this book... because it's a duology.
My thoughts:
1. Man, these kids are SNARKY. I like Maddie, but Genesis, Neda, and pretty much any girl that isn't Maddie are snarky queen bees that remind me of the girls we all hated in high school. YOU KNOW THE ONES. We all had them. It's bad when you're like "well... you kind of deserved to be kidnapped" ....Yeah, I know, I'm a horrible person.
2. The plot line itself and the twist at the end... Chef's Kiss! I really should have seen it coming, but I didn't. I was far too focused on wondering how Genesis was going to get karma back at her to figure out the ending.
3. Too many comments about people's weight. Five pounds too heavy? Yuck. Not cool. Let's remove the stereotypical "you're ugly because you're fat" when the people aren't fat.
4. The book is over 100 hours which is why the title is what it is. Cool concept. Kind of obvious.
5. There's lots of suggestions of hooking up with the bad guys to get free. I feel like teenagers are smarter these days than to just think about hooking up with all of the bad guys instead of coming up with a real plan...
6. The book is fast paced, so there is that. I find Rachel Vincent's writing style easy to read, so that made the book enjoyable. Although, I didn't enjoy the sometimes two to three page chapters. Those drive me INSANE. Short chapters are okay, but multiple three page chapters in a row confuse me.
7. Stupid cliffhanger. Insert grumbles here.
Overall, it was a pleasant book to read. I want to finish book two solely because I adore Maddie and need to know what happens to her. And I'm enjoying her potential romance, so there's that too.
Three out of five stars.
100 Hours follows a group of teens, very rich teens, as they go to Columbia for Spring Break. Does that sound like the smartest idea? Well, it depends. How much do you know about Columbia? In the timeline of this book, there's a lot of hostility between the US and Columbia, so that would be something to consider. Generally speaking, no, it wasn't a smart idea for them to go out on their own in Columbia, try to go on adventures without licensed/professional tour guides, and then try to be snarky about their richness.
Anywho, they get kidnapped. Surprise, surprise, right? Spring Break gone sour. The team has to work together to try to get away, but that won't happen in this book... because it's a duology.
My thoughts:
1. Man, these kids are SNARKY. I like Maddie, but Genesis, Neda, and pretty much any girl that isn't Maddie are snarky queen bees that remind me of the girls we all hated in high school. YOU KNOW THE ONES. We all had them. It's bad when you're like "well... you kind of deserved to be kidnapped" ....Yeah, I know, I'm a horrible person.
2. The plot line itself and the twist at the end... Chef's Kiss! I really should have seen it coming, but I didn't. I was far too focused on wondering how Genesis was going to get karma back at her to figure out the ending.
3. Too many comments about people's weight. Five pounds too heavy? Yuck. Not cool. Let's remove the stereotypical "you're ugly because you're fat" when the people aren't fat.
4. The book is over 100 hours which is why the title is what it is. Cool concept. Kind of obvious.
5. There's lots of suggestions of hooking up with the bad guys to get free. I feel like teenagers are smarter these days than to just think about hooking up with all of the bad guys instead of coming up with a real plan...
6. The book is fast paced, so there is that. I find Rachel Vincent's writing style easy to read, so that made the book enjoyable. Although, I didn't enjoy the sometimes two to three page chapters. Those drive me INSANE. Short chapters are okay, but multiple three page chapters in a row confuse me.
7. Stupid cliffhanger. Insert grumbles here.
Overall, it was a pleasant book to read. I want to finish book two solely because I adore Maddie and need to know what happens to her. And I'm enjoying her potential romance, so there's that too.
Three out of five stars.
June 28, 2021
CW:
"No one in this tiny Cartagena dive bar knows she’s five pounds too heavy and four inches too short to ever have anything more than her face appear in Teen Vogue, even if her father did design the latest Hermès handbag. In Cartagena, she’s just another hot American tourist. Where everyone else sees anonymity, Neda thinks she’s projecting mystery."
Me a few chapter in: 100 hours with this teen's insightful observations? No thanks. That's a hard pass.
Me at the end: *mutters* should have followed my gut instinct
"No one in this tiny Cartagena dive bar knows she’s five pounds too heavy and four inches too short to ever have anything more than her face appear in Teen Vogue, even if her father did design the latest Hermès handbag. In Cartagena, she’s just another hot American tourist. Where everyone else sees anonymity, Neda thinks she’s projecting mystery."
Me a few chapter in: 100 hours with this teen's insightful observations? No thanks. That's a hard pass.
Me at the end: *mutters* should have followed my gut instinct
zzzzz-did-not-finish
October 22, 2017Literally five characters cheat in the first 8 pages and I'm not even joking. One of the fastest nopes of all time.
July 27, 2017
This was supposed to be an exciting thriller?
This had none of the urgency that you would expect from a story that's about rich kids being kidnapped and held hostage by guerillas and terrorists in the Colombian jungle - not especially when most of the time, they're all smooching, flirting, and making each other jealous. Seriously, you have guns and rifles pointed at your heads, and you're all wondering who kissed who and who cheated on who?! Goddamn. Priorities.
This had none of the urgency that you would expect from a story that's about rich kids being kidnapped and held hostage by guerillas and terrorists in the Colombian jungle - not especially when most of the time, they're all smooching, flirting, and making each other jealous. Seriously, you have guns and rifles pointed at your heads, and you're all wondering who kissed who and who cheated on who?! Goddamn. Priorities.
March 28, 2017
100 Hours is a Young Adult mystery/suspense book. It is the first book in a series.
There are two narrators who are cousins. The first narrator is 17 year old Genesis. The second narrator is 16 year old Maddie. Both narrators are 1st person POVs.
The book starts in the present to give us a brief glimpse of what is happening. Then it goes back 100 hours. And moves forward until the book is in the present again. There are no chapters just time stamps.
The book takes place in Columbia mainly on the beach and in the jungle.
Genesis Valencia is a spoiled heiress and the leader of her group. It's Spring Break for these high schoolers. The group consists of Genesis, Neda (Gen's friend), Maddie, Holden (Gen's boyfriend), Nico (20ish from Columbia), Ryan (Maddie's brother), and Penelope (Gen's friend).
At first I was unclear if these kids were in high school or college. The book is listed as YA. But they are travelling on their own and in the first scene they are drunk in a bar.
The book did not start off great for me. Genesis is not very nice or likable. She makes out with other guys in front of her boyfriend. And her boyfriend Holden is even worse. All the friends seem pretty spoiled. Maddie seems less spoiled. But I just didn't love her either.
The book also started out poorly (for me) with underage drinking at a bar. These kids acted much older than they were. It definitely would have made more sense if they were in college.
Something happens to these teens on the beach. And they end up needing to escape. The problem is that I did not like any of them. And I did not care if anything happened to them. They all seemed so reckless, careless and dumb. I just wasn't that interested in their story.
The book was a very quick read. The setting was very different and interesting. There were some interesting twists, especially at the end of the book. The book was suspenseful.
There is some resolution to the story. But the book does end on a cliffhanger. The book wasn't bad. But my main issue was definitely that I just did not like most of the characters.
Thanks to edelweiss and Katherine Tegen Books for allowing me to read this book.
There are two narrators who are cousins. The first narrator is 17 year old Genesis. The second narrator is 16 year old Maddie. Both narrators are 1st person POVs.
The book starts in the present to give us a brief glimpse of what is happening. Then it goes back 100 hours. And moves forward until the book is in the present again. There are no chapters just time stamps.
The book takes place in Columbia mainly on the beach and in the jungle.
Genesis Valencia is a spoiled heiress and the leader of her group. It's Spring Break for these high schoolers. The group consists of Genesis, Neda (Gen's friend), Maddie, Holden (Gen's boyfriend), Nico (20ish from Columbia), Ryan (Maddie's brother), and Penelope (Gen's friend).
At first I was unclear if these kids were in high school or college. The book is listed as YA. But they are travelling on their own and in the first scene they are drunk in a bar.
The book did not start off great for me. Genesis is not very nice or likable. She makes out with other guys in front of her boyfriend. And her boyfriend Holden is even worse. All the friends seem pretty spoiled. Maddie seems less spoiled. But I just didn't love her either.
The book also started out poorly (for me) with underage drinking at a bar. These kids acted much older than they were. It definitely would have made more sense if they were in college.
Something happens to these teens on the beach. And they end up needing to escape. The problem is that I did not like any of them. And I did not care if anything happened to them. They all seemed so reckless, careless and dumb. I just wasn't that interested in their story.
The book was a very quick read. The setting was very different and interesting. There were some interesting twists, especially at the end of the book. The book was suspenseful.
There is some resolution to the story. But the book does end on a cliffhanger. The book wasn't bad. But my main issue was definitely that I just did not like most of the characters.
Thanks to edelweiss and Katherine Tegen Books for allowing me to read this book.
March 24, 2017
This book was incredible. I just couldn't put it down and had to devour it from beginning to end. I loved everything about it: how fleshed out the characters are, the plot, how the narrative was split between Maddie and Genesis, how raw the feeling were, all the WTF moments there were... simply AMAZING.
Rachel Vincent have never before written sth like this book and it surprised me how perfect it was, how everything was researched and how addictive this book was. I SO want more!!!
What happens now with Genesis???? OMG!!!
Rachel Vincent have never before written sth like this book and it surprised me how perfect it was, how everything was researched and how addictive this book was. I SO want more!!!
What happens now with Genesis???? OMG!!!
November 4, 2016
Very different kind of book by author Rachel Vincent. The story recounts 100 hours in the life of Genesis and her friends as they vacation in Colombia. The narrative has multiple points of view and it takes a little time to get to know the characters well enough to understand who is talking and why they behave the way they do. At first I was skeptical that the book could be a the first of a trilogy, and as I neared the end of the book, I understood why, however I still feel that it probably could have been told in one book.
Full review to come closer to publication date.
Thank you to Edelweiss and the publisher for a review copy of this book.
Full review to come closer to publication date.
Thank you to Edelweiss and the publisher for a review copy of this book.
March 26, 2017
There is a problem when the first 100+ pages of a 300 page "thriller" are devoted to a bunch of teenagers cheating on each other, getting drunk, and being absolute morons.
I hated every single character in this book. There are two POVs: Genesis, who is spoiled and entitled and just a jerk, and her cousin Maddy, who is the token poor, fat girl of the group and manages to be even more snotty and whiny than Genesis. Remarkably, however, their chapters sound exactly the same. The other characters are either spoiled, whiny, entitled, jerks, caricatures of actual people, or all the above. I did not have a pleasant experience with them.
I quit reading this book 103 pages in because I could not handle it all anymore. By then, the teenagers had finally been kidnapped like the synopsis said would happen, and the plot finally started. But really, if the content of the first 100 pages is any indication of what the next 200 will hold, I have no desire to keep reading.
I hated every single character in this book. There are two POVs: Genesis, who is spoiled and entitled and just a jerk, and her cousin Maddy, who is the token poor, fat girl of the group and manages to be even more snotty and whiny than Genesis. Remarkably, however, their chapters sound exactly the same. The other characters are either spoiled, whiny, entitled, jerks, caricatures of actual people, or all the above. I did not have a pleasant experience with them.
I quit reading this book 103 pages in because I could not handle it all anymore. By then, the teenagers had finally been kidnapped like the synopsis said would happen, and the plot finally started. But really, if the content of the first 100 pages is any indication of what the next 200 will hold, I have no desire to keep reading.
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August 4, 2020Unseen dangers lurk in the Colombian rainforest. Genesis and Maddie find this out the hard way when their extravagant spring break vacation turns into a horrifying struggle to survive. The plan was to have an exciting, albeit unauthorized trip to some untouched beaches in Colombia, their ancestral homeland. But paradise comes with MANY strings attached, and Genesis, Maddie, and their friends find themselves wrapped up in a nefarious terrorist plot, masterminded by someone far closer to home than they realized. Rachel Vincent's knack for creating action and intrigue stands out in this thrilling and captivating beginning to the 100 Hours duology. However, the alternating perspectives quite unfortunately prevent any suspense from building up. In addition, Vincent does not link her terrorists to any real group in Latin America aside from a passing comment about Moreno's cartel, and thus fails to make a point about the real violence in Colombia. All in all, this novel has an enrapturing plot line with the potential to become a deep and thought-provoking story about intercultural conflicts between the US and Latin American countries, but does not effectively elaborate on the real-life problems mentioned in the book. -Janvi, SPL Teen Volunteer
March 31, 2017
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May 25, 2017
3.5 stars
100 Hours follows two cousins on their spring break vacation in Colombia, Genesis Valencia is the heiress of a large transportation company, so she´s used to get everything she wants and get away with it because of her father's money. Maddie Valencia lost her father a year before and she lives with her mother and older brother with a middle income, so on her vacation she and her brother Ryan end up accompanying Genesis, who travels with her boyfriend and her two best friends, all of them rich.
The original idea was that they would travel to Bahamas, but once in the private jet, Genesis changes their plans and they end up traveling to Colombia, the country where Genesis and Maddie´s fathers were born and where their paternal grandmother still lives, so their family back home in Miami aren´t aware of the change of itinerary.
Once in Colombia Genesis, Maddie, Ryan and their group of friends are kidnapped and taken to the jungle of Colombia where they plan to request ransom.
100 Hours is told from the point of view of Maddie and Genesis and begins in the present when they are kidnapped, and then jumps 100 hours before to see little by little how all their problems started.
Of the two cousins I like Maddie, she´s more focused, less selfish and more likeable, easier to feel some kind of connection or worry about what happened to her. While Genesis is more selfish and unlikeable, but what saves her as a character is a bit her past and that due to that past she´s always on the defensive and prepared for this type of situation. There is a certain type of romance for the Valencia cousins, but it´s on a secondary level, since they have more important things to do ... like survive.
And as this book is part of a duology it ends with a cliffhanger (the last few chapters I was suspecting everyone, I just knew that something was going to happen, I was waiting for the twist and it delivered), so I will have to read the following book to see how the story of the Valencia cousins ends.
100 Hours follows two cousins on their spring break vacation in Colombia, Genesis Valencia is the heiress of a large transportation company, so she´s used to get everything she wants and get away with it because of her father's money. Maddie Valencia lost her father a year before and she lives with her mother and older brother with a middle income, so on her vacation she and her brother Ryan end up accompanying Genesis, who travels with her boyfriend and her two best friends, all of them rich.
The original idea was that they would travel to Bahamas, but once in the private jet, Genesis changes their plans and they end up traveling to Colombia, the country where Genesis and Maddie´s fathers were born and where their paternal grandmother still lives, so their family back home in Miami aren´t aware of the change of itinerary.
Once in Colombia Genesis, Maddie, Ryan and their group of friends are kidnapped and taken to the jungle of Colombia where they plan to request ransom.
100 Hours is told from the point of view of Maddie and Genesis and begins in the present when they are kidnapped, and then jumps 100 hours before to see little by little how all their problems started.
Of the two cousins I like Maddie, she´s more focused, less selfish and more likeable, easier to feel some kind of connection or worry about what happened to her. While Genesis is more selfish and unlikeable, but what saves her as a character is a bit her past and that due to that past she´s always on the defensive and prepared for this type of situation. There is a certain type of romance for the Valencia cousins, but it´s on a secondary level, since they have more important things to do ... like survive.
And as this book is part of a duology it ends with a cliffhanger (the last few chapters I was suspecting everyone, I just knew that something was going to happen, I was waiting for the twist and it delivered), so I will have to read the following book to see how the story of the Valencia cousins ends.
March 29, 2017
Bloody awful. All of the characters were ridiculous. Who thinks about kissing people when you've just been kidnapped and people are getting killed?
December 11, 2020
While I did enjoy this book I must say I liked the other books by this author much better. It was indeed thrilling - no problems in that regard - but there were a few things that I had a hard time accepting at face value..and that does affect the story.
First you have a bunch of teens from Miami who go on vacation to Columbia. By themselves. I know these teens are supposed to be super rich, like millionaires, but who let's teens go on trips to foreign countries by themselves? Without any sort of supervisors? Especially teen girls? Too many things could happen. Then add to it Columbia is a third world country.
A lot of the story takes place in the jungle. You have lots of people running about and hiking in the thick underbrush yet they never meet any pit vipers. Since the jungle is filled with these venomous snakes and they are often being careless while out (the characters I mean, not the snakes) you would think at least one character would run into one. The book does mention mosquitoes with malaria in one sentence but that's about it. Just a simple google search says many people are bitten by these snakes in Columbia; it's a common occurrence.
An even bigger problem I had with the story is the fact that while the characters were being held captive by the kidnappers, many of them are kissing and making out. The victims I mean! Who in their right brains are going to be doing that while they are being held for ransom? I find that highly unlikely! Stuff like that makes the story very unbelievable. The characters should be under high stress but they act like they are at a party or some other everyday place. Arguing over boys, etc.
And I won't even mention the thing with the insulin. I really don't know much about insulin so I don't know if what was written is possible or not.
I must say the story does have some huge plot twists towards the end. They did surprise me. But I never could relate to any of the characters in here. I will probably read the sequel just to see how it ends.
Oh, this book ends mid story. You really need to read the sequel to actually find out what happened...
First you have a bunch of teens from Miami who go on vacation to Columbia. By themselves. I know these teens are supposed to be super rich, like millionaires, but who let's teens go on trips to foreign countries by themselves? Without any sort of supervisors? Especially teen girls? Too many things could happen. Then add to it Columbia is a third world country.
A lot of the story takes place in the jungle. You have lots of people running about and hiking in the thick underbrush yet they never meet any pit vipers. Since the jungle is filled with these venomous snakes and they are often being careless while out (the characters I mean, not the snakes) you would think at least one character would run into one. The book does mention mosquitoes with malaria in one sentence but that's about it. Just a simple google search says many people are bitten by these snakes in Columbia; it's a common occurrence.
An even bigger problem I had with the story is the fact that while the characters were being held captive by the kidnappers, many of them are kissing and making out. The victims I mean! Who in their right brains are going to be doing that while they are being held for ransom? I find that highly unlikely! Stuff like that makes the story very unbelievable. The characters should be under high stress but they act like they are at a party or some other everyday place. Arguing over boys, etc.
And I won't even mention the thing with the insulin. I really don't know much about insulin so I don't know if what was written is possible or not.
I must say the story does have some huge plot twists towards the end. They did surprise me. But I never could relate to any of the characters in here. I will probably read the sequel just to see how it ends.
Oh, this book ends mid story. You really need to read the sequel to actually find out what happened...
April 20, 2017
If I had to articulate the issues I had with this book, and this is a review so I should, it boils down to the unrelenting dislike I had for the entire cast. Not that they all didn't have various reasons for their disastrous personalities, but sweet stars I wanted to throttle them.
Genesis, aka I Have Plot Convenient Hidden Depths and Talents.
Maddie, aka everyone I love is taken from me!
Holden, aka typical rich boy diva whiner.
Ryan, aka I must protect my sister...or at least make a good show of it.
The summary wrecks part of the mystery why these kids are taken hostage - I think if I hadn't known going in Genesis was a big reason for it, I probably would have cared more to unravel the why of it.
I can't speak towards the culture represented (Colombia), as I know very little about it or the country, but the judgy attitude of Maddie's (in regards to her Uncle Hernan and cousin Genesis) and Genesis's casual dismissal of her heritage except when it suited her (all part of her hidden depths by the way) rubbed me wrong.
In the end while I didn't hate this, I found no reason to continue the trilogy either sadly.
Genesis, aka I Have Plot Convenient Hidden Depths and Talents.
Maddie, aka everyone I love is taken from me!
Holden, aka typical rich boy diva whiner.
Ryan, aka I must protect my sister...or at least make a good show of it.
The summary wrecks part of the mystery why these kids are taken hostage - I think if I hadn't known going in Genesis was a big reason for it, I probably would have cared more to unravel the why of it.
I can't speak towards the culture represented (Colombia), as I know very little about it or the country, but the judgy attitude of Maddie's (in regards to her Uncle Hernan and cousin Genesis) and Genesis's casual dismissal of her heritage except when it suited her (all part of her hidden depths by the way) rubbed me wrong.
In the end while I didn't hate this, I found no reason to continue the trilogy either sadly.
March 18, 2017
A decadent spring break getaway on an exotic beach becomes a terrifying survival story when six Miami teens are kidnapped and ransomed.Maddie is beyond done with her cousin Genesis’s entitled and shallow entourage. Genesis is so over Miami’s predictable social scene with its velvet ropes, petty power plays, and backstabbing boyfriends. While Maddie craves family time for spring break, Genesis seeks novelty—like a last-minute getaway to an untouched beach in Colombia. And when Genesis wants something, it happens.
But paradise has its price. Dragged from their tents under the cover of dark, Genesis, Maddie, and their friends are kidnapped and held for ransom deep inside the jungle—with no diva left behind. It all feels so random to everyone except Genesis. She knows they were targeted for a reason. And that reason is her.
When I saw the cove r of this book and read the description, I immediately wanted to read it and was excited when the publisher sent me an ARC. Plus. the cover is absolutely gorgeous. I love survival type books, but can't find many good ones and I especially liked the tropical setting. However, although the plot of this story could have been really great, it was fairly disappointing. The story is told from two perspectives, Maddie and Genesis, both of which are fairly spoiled little rich girls, but Genesis especially. I was already annoyed with her during the first chapter where she is cheating on her boyfriend, in front of him, in a local Colombian bar. The story begins with them ditching their spring break in the Bahamas and instead bribing the pilot of their private plan to bring them to Columbia instead, as that is where their parents are from and their grandmother still lives there. I don't know much about the lives of the very rich, but this story itself seemed a bit far fetched to me.
Basically, this book could have been really great, with the story and the setting, but between the thoughts, words and actions of the overly privileged rich teenagers, which was extremely annoying, and them just randomly cheating and hooking up the whole time, it kind of ruined the plot for me. Their is a plot twist and there is a good deal of action throughout the book and the plot moves along at a steady pace. But I just really had a hard time connecting with any of the characters and I never really became invested in any of them either. The book does end with another twist and a cliffhanger, leaving the reader with an open ended story line for the next book in the series. Overall this book could have been really great if the author had toned down the privileged, rich girl monologue and had developed the characters a bit more so readers might actually become invested in their outcome. Thank you to the publisher for sending me an advanced reading copy of the book.
But paradise has its price. Dragged from their tents under the cover of dark, Genesis, Maddie, and their friends are kidnapped and held for ransom deep inside the jungle—with no diva left behind. It all feels so random to everyone except Genesis. She knows they were targeted for a reason. And that reason is her.
When I saw the cove r of this book and read the description, I immediately wanted to read it and was excited when the publisher sent me an ARC. Plus. the cover is absolutely gorgeous. I love survival type books, but can't find many good ones and I especially liked the tropical setting. However, although the plot of this story could have been really great, it was fairly disappointing. The story is told from two perspectives, Maddie and Genesis, both of which are fairly spoiled little rich girls, but Genesis especially. I was already annoyed with her during the first chapter where she is cheating on her boyfriend, in front of him, in a local Colombian bar. The story begins with them ditching their spring break in the Bahamas and instead bribing the pilot of their private plan to bring them to Columbia instead, as that is where their parents are from and their grandmother still lives there. I don't know much about the lives of the very rich, but this story itself seemed a bit far fetched to me.
Basically, this book could have been really great, with the story and the setting, but between the thoughts, words and actions of the overly privileged rich teenagers, which was extremely annoying, and them just randomly cheating and hooking up the whole time, it kind of ruined the plot for me. Their is a plot twist and there is a good deal of action throughout the book and the plot moves along at a steady pace. But I just really had a hard time connecting with any of the characters and I never really became invested in any of them either. The book does end with another twist and a cliffhanger, leaving the reader with an open ended story line for the next book in the series. Overall this book could have been really great if the author had toned down the privileged, rich girl monologue and had developed the characters a bit more so readers might actually become invested in their outcome. Thank you to the publisher for sending me an advanced reading copy of the book.
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DNF @ 60%
Survival stories are one of my absolute favorite genres, accounting for the majority the books that I read that aren't fantasy or sci-fi. I hardly ever delve into the realm of contemporary fiction, but I couldn't pass up 100 Hours when I saw it this year at ALAMW. Despite the low rating on Goodreads, a survival story of teenagers kidnapped in a foreign country sounded right up my alley and I decided to give it a try!
Maddie and Genesis are the main characters of this story. Genesis is a rich kid from Miami whose father owns a large shipping company, making her an extremely wealthy teenager. Her cousin Maddie has been dragged into this impromptu trip along with her brother, and she really doesn't fit in with the rest of the friends Genesis has brought along.
While Maddie was slightly more tolerable than Genesis, neither was a sympathetic character. From the beginning of the book, all of the teens including Genesis and Maddie are extremely unlikeable. Genesis is a materialistic rich girl who knows karate, Maddie is poor and wants to save the planet, and their merry band of tagalongs are all obnoxious and one dimensional. Many of the main characters are annoyingly indestructible throughout the book. One literally jumps off a cliff into a rushing river and manages to miss all the rocks and not drown in the current. Much suspension of disbelief is required.
I started 100 Hours fully expecting to stay on the edge of my seat, and I did - for awhile. Once everyone stopped making out with every stranger they came across and the kidnapping finally happened, the plot of 100 Hours did keep my heart racing for a few chapters. Then it just kind of went nowhere. There were chapters of trudging through the forest, talking, eating, and listening. Once I found out what the reasoning was behind the kidnapping I began to lose interest. Eventually I realized I didn't really care what happened to any of the characters and that was when I decided to give up and move on to something else.
The one thing I can say for 100 Hours is that the setting was really well done. Yes, it's just a rainforest, but Rachel Vincent did a fantastic job of creating a mood of unease early on. I just wish the vibe could've held on for the rest of the book!
I really wanted to love 100 Hours! I wanted an incredible survival stories of teenagers making it out despite the odds, but the story quickly became tedious and unrealistic, not to mention the characters didn't make me care what happened to them. It's possible that I may have really enjoyed this one had I stuck it out, but I just didn't have it in me.
DNF @ 60%
Survival stories are one of my absolute favorite genres, accounting for the majority the books that I read that aren't fantasy or sci-fi. I hardly ever delve into the realm of contemporary fiction, but I couldn't pass up 100 Hours when I saw it this year at ALAMW. Despite the low rating on Goodreads, a survival story of teenagers kidnapped in a foreign country sounded right up my alley and I decided to give it a try!
Maddie and Genesis are the main characters of this story. Genesis is a rich kid from Miami whose father owns a large shipping company, making her an extremely wealthy teenager. Her cousin Maddie has been dragged into this impromptu trip along with her brother, and she really doesn't fit in with the rest of the friends Genesis has brought along.
While Maddie was slightly more tolerable than Genesis, neither was a sympathetic character. From the beginning of the book, all of the teens including Genesis and Maddie are extremely unlikeable. Genesis is a materialistic rich girl who knows karate, Maddie is poor and wants to save the planet, and their merry band of tagalongs are all obnoxious and one dimensional. Many of the main characters are annoyingly indestructible throughout the book. One literally jumps off a cliff into a rushing river and manages to miss all the rocks and not drown in the current. Much suspension of disbelief is required.
I started 100 Hours fully expecting to stay on the edge of my seat, and I did - for awhile. Once everyone stopped making out with every stranger they came across and the kidnapping finally happened, the plot of 100 Hours did keep my heart racing for a few chapters. Then it just kind of went nowhere. There were chapters of trudging through the forest, talking, eating, and listening. Once I found out what the reasoning was behind the kidnapping I began to lose interest. Eventually I realized I didn't really care what happened to any of the characters and that was when I decided to give up and move on to something else.
The one thing I can say for 100 Hours is that the setting was really well done. Yes, it's just a rainforest, but Rachel Vincent did a fantastic job of creating a mood of unease early on. I just wish the vibe could've held on for the rest of the book!
I really wanted to love 100 Hours! I wanted an incredible survival stories of teenagers making it out despite the odds, but the story quickly became tedious and unrealistic, not to mention the characters didn't make me care what happened to them. It's possible that I may have really enjoyed this one had I stuck it out, but I just didn't have it in me.
July 6, 2018
I'm still speechless. Wow, just wow. I don't normally read ya suspense, love paranormal romance books. But Rachel Vincent is my all time favorite author so I had to read it.
100 Hours was a young adult novel with grit. The story was raw, emotional, and action packed to the very last page.
The author still managed to capture teens in the peak of drama. This book has everything. True to form, social hierarchy, boyfriend drama, personality flaws, and entitlement are weaved into the plot.
Once the plot really got going, it didn't stop. There were twists I never expected. Being kidnapped and held hostage in the jungles of Colombia, these teens will be put to the ultimate test-how they respond under true pressure.
Vincent penned a story most others would be leery to write. She delved into politics, cartels, tension between countries, and managed to turn this into one of the best ya page turners I've read all year.
This book-out March 28, 2017- needs to be on your to read shelves. Ten glittery stars for 100 Hours. No guts, no glory. The end was shocking and I can't wait to see what the next installment in this trilogy will bring.
100 Hours was a young adult novel with grit. The story was raw, emotional, and action packed to the very last page.
The author still managed to capture teens in the peak of drama. This book has everything. True to form, social hierarchy, boyfriend drama, personality flaws, and entitlement are weaved into the plot.
Once the plot really got going, it didn't stop. There were twists I never expected. Being kidnapped and held hostage in the jungles of Colombia, these teens will be put to the ultimate test-how they respond under true pressure.
Vincent penned a story most others would be leery to write. She delved into politics, cartels, tension between countries, and managed to turn this into one of the best ya page turners I've read all year.
This book-out March 28, 2017- needs to be on your to read shelves. Ten glittery stars for 100 Hours. No guts, no glory. The end was shocking and I can't wait to see what the next installment in this trilogy will bring.
September 4, 2018
Holy wow! How did I wait so long to read 100 Hours? This was excellent! Filled with danger and action, teenagers who started out as a bit vapid, but oh my goodness. Genesis was one kick-ass heroine! And now, I'm off to get my hands on 99 Lies!
January 15, 2018
The cover is the best part.
March 18, 2017
I received a free copy of this book to read and review for Wicked Reads.
Instead of going to the Bahamas for spring break, Genesis has dragged her boyfriend, best friends and her cousins to Colombia instead. Whatever Genesis says her friends do.
The story starts in the now, with cousins Genesis and Maddie being chased. We get just a tiny snippet, enough to know that their time in Colombia isn't going to go as planned. The story then goes back 100 hours and continues to count down until eventually we catch up to the present.
100 Hours had a slow start. It felt like a set up for a horror movie as we got to know this group of entitled, self absorbed American teenagers as they party and use their money to get whatever they want. They weren't the most likable bunch of people and I nearly gave up reading. Thankfully my husband encouraged me to stick with it and I'm glad I did. This is a story that got better and better the more I read and, by half way through, the slow start and my annoyance at the spoiled little rich kids was gone.
The change came for me when the inevitable disaster struck. Their hike through the jungle to see ancient ruins goes disastrously wrong when they are kidnapped and held for ransom. From that point the party stops as our group, which has grown to include a few extra people met while partying, fights for survival. But infighting, lovers spats and general mistrust make it harder to work together. At the start of the book I wanted to slap these spoiled brats but by the end I was rooting for them to get away from the bad guys.
There is lots of action and the tension ramps up the closer we get to the present and learn more about what the kidnappers plans are. By the time the book finished my heart was racing and I was feeling invigorated and desperate for more. A fantastic ending. What happens now? I can't wait to find out!
Instead of going to the Bahamas for spring break, Genesis has dragged her boyfriend, best friends and her cousins to Colombia instead. Whatever Genesis says her friends do.
The story starts in the now, with cousins Genesis and Maddie being chased. We get just a tiny snippet, enough to know that their time in Colombia isn't going to go as planned. The story then goes back 100 hours and continues to count down until eventually we catch up to the present.
100 Hours had a slow start. It felt like a set up for a horror movie as we got to know this group of entitled, self absorbed American teenagers as they party and use their money to get whatever they want. They weren't the most likable bunch of people and I nearly gave up reading. Thankfully my husband encouraged me to stick with it and I'm glad I did. This is a story that got better and better the more I read and, by half way through, the slow start and my annoyance at the spoiled little rich kids was gone.
The change came for me when the inevitable disaster struck. Their hike through the jungle to see ancient ruins goes disastrously wrong when they are kidnapped and held for ransom. From that point the party stops as our group, which has grown to include a few extra people met while partying, fights for survival. But infighting, lovers spats and general mistrust make it harder to work together. At the start of the book I wanted to slap these spoiled brats but by the end I was rooting for them to get away from the bad guys.
There is lots of action and the tension ramps up the closer we get to the present and learn more about what the kidnappers plans are. By the time the book finished my heart was racing and I was feeling invigorated and desperate for more. A fantastic ending. What happens now? I can't wait to find out!
November 4, 2016
Gosh, I really tried with this book. I truly wanted to love it. Cause it looks so amazing. And I have read one book by Rachel that I really loved, and one more than I liked a lot. And so I thought I would love this one too. But, yeah. I did not. Not at all. And I just barely managed to force myself to read all of it. It was so painful.
I will try my best not to share that much about what I disliked about this book, lol. But it will be hard not do. And I disliked just about all of it. And I need to write about it. Ugh. Might be a few spoilers. But yeah. I really don't recommend that anyone reads this book. And that makes me a bit sad, to be fully honest. Sigh.
I have decided that I'm giving this one star. Because I seriously did not like it much at all. I don't think there was anything that I truly liked, to be honest. I loved nothing about it. Which makes me so sad, cause I really wanted to love this book. But it was just impossible. I guess that others would enjoy it, but these type of characters were not for me. At all. I had so many issues. Sigh. I must admit, though, that I think the plot could have been great. It was supposed to be about teens being kidnapped at night and held for ransom. I thought this would be exciting and scary and full of death. It was so not. I didn't find it exciting at any moment. Sobs. It took one third of the book before the first death. Sigh. And I did not care. Spent just about all of this one not caring.
I'm trying to figure out what to say. Words seems to be failing me. Because this whole book was one big fail. So disappointing. I thought it would be so good. But it was so not. Sigh. 100 Hours is told from two point of views. Genesis and Maddie. They are cousins. And oh gosh, I did not like either of them. They were both horrible. Genesis is a spoiled rich girl, with stupid rich friends. She just drinks and party all the time. She and her boyfriend cheat on each other all the time. Made zero sense to me. I did not like them.
And Maddie wasn't really any better either. She's supposed to be sort of a nerd, I guess. Thinking she's above Genesis and her friends. Always thinking badly about them, laughing about them and such. I feel like I learned so little about Maddie and Genesis. I don't know much about who they are as people. But I still know that I did not like any of them. They were both awful. I couldn't care less about what happened to them. Ugh. Not good. I also didn't really like the writing much at all. Which just makes me so sad. Sigh.
I think my biggest reason for not liking these girls was because the book begins with them out partying at a bar. Maddie is drinking for the first time in ages, whatever, though they are just sixteen and seventeen years old. Ugh. I hate underage drinking. So yeah. She's drinking and having fun. And kisses the first guy she's dancing with. Then there is Genesis. She's there with her boyfriend. But she's flirting and seriously kissing some other boy she just met. Then she's making up with he boyfriend. Wtf. They made no sense.
I could have gotten over this bad beginning. Except it happened again. And again. Also, Genesis had a boyfriend. Sure, he wasn't such a good guy, but whatever. They were together. She kissed someone else early on. Then a bit later she meets another boy that she's suddenly all over and ends up kissing him so many times, and breaking up with boyfriend. It just made no sense to be at all. So much drinking. And so much kissing of different boys. I would never have done such a thing. And it bothers me so much. Sigh.
I guess the reason for why it bothered me so much is because this whole book takes place in just 100 hours. For real. And Genesis is all over the place with her feelings and whatnot. At the end she seems to be in love with this new boy. Made no sense. He seemed cute, but knew nothing about him. And Maddie. Sigh. She didn't have a boyfriend. But she was also kissing three different boys in this book. Wtf. Third boy seems like he would be love interest. But he was just fifteen and a nerd and they make fun of him.
I just. I had so, so many issues with this book. Spoiled rich kids. Drinking and kissing everything. And Genesis and Maddie wasn't truly friends either. I just. This whole book didn't make sense to me. And when they finally get kidnapped, I wasn't even excited. It was so so so boring. I didn't care about any of it one bit. The ending was boring to me as well. A cliffhanger, I guess, as this is a trilogy. But I will not be reading the other books. Sigh. I was so disappointed. The girls were awful. The other people so boring.
I'm trying to decide what to share about this book. And I'm sort of coming up empty. I thought I would want to write for ages about the things I disliked, lol, but I didn't have all that much I wanted to share. But I think I managed to share enough. This book was just not for me. I was so disappointed. And I would not read it again. Or recommend it for others. Sigh. Oh, well. I'm sort of glad I gave it a try. Maybe. It was so bad. Thank you so much to the publisher for having me auto-approved on Edelweiss. Means the most.
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This review was first posted on my blog, Carina's Books, here: http://carinabooks.blogspot.no/2016/1...
I will try my best not to share that much about what I disliked about this book, lol. But it will be hard not do. And I disliked just about all of it. And I need to write about it. Ugh. Might be a few spoilers. But yeah. I really don't recommend that anyone reads this book. And that makes me a bit sad, to be fully honest. Sigh.
I have decided that I'm giving this one star. Because I seriously did not like it much at all. I don't think there was anything that I truly liked, to be honest. I loved nothing about it. Which makes me so sad, cause I really wanted to love this book. But it was just impossible. I guess that others would enjoy it, but these type of characters were not for me. At all. I had so many issues. Sigh. I must admit, though, that I think the plot could have been great. It was supposed to be about teens being kidnapped at night and held for ransom. I thought this would be exciting and scary and full of death. It was so not. I didn't find it exciting at any moment. Sobs. It took one third of the book before the first death. Sigh. And I did not care. Spent just about all of this one not caring.
I'm trying to figure out what to say. Words seems to be failing me. Because this whole book was one big fail. So disappointing. I thought it would be so good. But it was so not. Sigh. 100 Hours is told from two point of views. Genesis and Maddie. They are cousins. And oh gosh, I did not like either of them. They were both horrible. Genesis is a spoiled rich girl, with stupid rich friends. She just drinks and party all the time. She and her boyfriend cheat on each other all the time. Made zero sense to me. I did not like them.
And Maddie wasn't really any better either. She's supposed to be sort of a nerd, I guess. Thinking she's above Genesis and her friends. Always thinking badly about them, laughing about them and such. I feel like I learned so little about Maddie and Genesis. I don't know much about who they are as people. But I still know that I did not like any of them. They were both awful. I couldn't care less about what happened to them. Ugh. Not good. I also didn't really like the writing much at all. Which just makes me so sad. Sigh.
I think my biggest reason for not liking these girls was because the book begins with them out partying at a bar. Maddie is drinking for the first time in ages, whatever, though they are just sixteen and seventeen years old. Ugh. I hate underage drinking. So yeah. She's drinking and having fun. And kisses the first guy she's dancing with. Then there is Genesis. She's there with her boyfriend. But she's flirting and seriously kissing some other boy she just met. Then she's making up with he boyfriend. Wtf. They made no sense.
I could have gotten over this bad beginning. Except it happened again. And again. Also, Genesis had a boyfriend. Sure, he wasn't such a good guy, but whatever. They were together. She kissed someone else early on. Then a bit later she meets another boy that she's suddenly all over and ends up kissing him so many times, and breaking up with boyfriend. It just made no sense to be at all. So much drinking. And so much kissing of different boys. I would never have done such a thing. And it bothers me so much. Sigh.
I guess the reason for why it bothered me so much is because this whole book takes place in just 100 hours. For real. And Genesis is all over the place with her feelings and whatnot. At the end she seems to be in love with this new boy. Made no sense. He seemed cute, but knew nothing about him. And Maddie. Sigh. She didn't have a boyfriend. But she was also kissing three different boys in this book. Wtf. Third boy seems like he would be love interest. But he was just fifteen and a nerd and they make fun of him.
I just. I had so, so many issues with this book. Spoiled rich kids. Drinking and kissing everything. And Genesis and Maddie wasn't truly friends either. I just. This whole book didn't make sense to me. And when they finally get kidnapped, I wasn't even excited. It was so so so boring. I didn't care about any of it one bit. The ending was boring to me as well. A cliffhanger, I guess, as this is a trilogy. But I will not be reading the other books. Sigh. I was so disappointed. The girls were awful. The other people so boring.
I'm trying to decide what to share about this book. And I'm sort of coming up empty. I thought I would want to write for ages about the things I disliked, lol, but I didn't have all that much I wanted to share. But I think I managed to share enough. This book was just not for me. I was so disappointed. And I would not read it again. Or recommend it for others. Sigh. Oh, well. I'm sort of glad I gave it a try. Maybe. It was so bad. Thank you so much to the publisher for having me auto-approved on Edelweiss. Means the most.
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This review was first posted on my blog, Carina's Books, here: http://carinabooks.blogspot.no/2016/1...
March 27, 2017
*Source* Edelweiss/Publisher
*Genre* Young Adult, Thriller
*Rating* 3.0
*My Thoughts*
100 Hours is the first installment in author Rachel Vincent's 100 Hours trilogy. This is definitely something new from Vincent who is known for series such as Soul Screamers, Shifters, Menagerie, & Wild Cats. 100 Hours is Vincent's debut into the contemporary arena. The story is about a group of Miami teenagers (Maddie, Genesis, Neda, Holden, Ryan, & Penelope) who travel to Columbia for Spring Break and end up being kidnapped by a group of terrorists. Vincent's story alternatives between cousins Maddie and Genesis who is heir to a shipping empire.
*Full Review @ Gizmos Reviews*
http://gizmosreviews.blogspot.com/201...
*Genre* Young Adult, Thriller
*Rating* 3.0
*My Thoughts*
100 Hours is the first installment in author Rachel Vincent's 100 Hours trilogy. This is definitely something new from Vincent who is known for series such as Soul Screamers, Shifters, Menagerie, & Wild Cats. 100 Hours is Vincent's debut into the contemporary arena. The story is about a group of Miami teenagers (Maddie, Genesis, Neda, Holden, Ryan, & Penelope) who travel to Columbia for Spring Break and end up being kidnapped by a group of terrorists. Vincent's story alternatives between cousins Maddie and Genesis who is heir to a shipping empire.
*Full Review @ Gizmos Reviews*
http://gizmosreviews.blogspot.com/201...
April 19, 2017
This was my first read of Vincent's and it was a complete disappointment. It wasn't absolutely horrible but it's not recommend-worthy either…even though I REALLY wanted it to be!
It's basically about a group of teens who go on a vacation/spring break in Columbia and are so privileged that their privileges are privileged. They complain about the stupidest things and cheat on one another. They are all ridiculous. They get kidnapped by a group of radicals who they think are soldiers. My biggest complaint: I could NOT bring myself to care about these people. They're all so superficial.. even after they are kidnapped. There's no real fear or weakness - they just get angry because they're being inconvenienced by the kidnappers.
Action is almost completely absent. The dialogue isn't deep and feels as if you're reading a Paris Hilton blog entry at times. Character development does not occur (and at times I even think certain characters regress).
The cover was absolutely gorgeous and is the main reason I looked into getting this book in the first place but you know what they say: never judge a book by its cover. If you did, you'd think this would be an adventurous, action-packed tale of survival…and that would just be completely opposite of what you'd actually get.
Don't expect a conclusion after all the nonsense either... you'll only get a cliffhanger. Yep, you read that right. There's a cliffhanger that is supposed to be concluded in the next book.
Fine for an afternoon skim-through but not one you will want on your shelf. Check it out at the library before buying. You heard it here first.
It's basically about a group of teens who go on a vacation/spring break in Columbia and are so privileged that their privileges are privileged. They complain about the stupidest things and cheat on one another. They are all ridiculous. They get kidnapped by a group of radicals who they think are soldiers. My biggest complaint: I could NOT bring myself to care about these people. They're all so superficial.. even after they are kidnapped. There's no real fear or weakness - they just get angry because they're being inconvenienced by the kidnappers.
Action is almost completely absent. The dialogue isn't deep and feels as if you're reading a Paris Hilton blog entry at times. Character development does not occur (and at times I even think certain characters regress).
The cover was absolutely gorgeous and is the main reason I looked into getting this book in the first place but you know what they say: never judge a book by its cover. If you did, you'd think this would be an adventurous, action-packed tale of survival…and that would just be completely opposite of what you'd actually get.
Don't expect a conclusion after all the nonsense either... you'll only get a cliffhanger. Yep, you read that right. There's a cliffhanger that is supposed to be concluded in the next book.
Fine for an afternoon skim-through but not one you will want on your shelf. Check it out at the library before buying. You heard it here first.
February 24, 2017
This was an exciting, fast-paced thriller with intriguing characters. Genesis, whose father own a large shipping company, is the leader of her crew which includes her cousins Ryan and Maddie, her boyfriend Holden, and her friends Pen and Neda. Instead of spending their Spring Break in the Bahamas, Genesis decides that Colombia would be a better choice. Her grandmother lives there, her father was born there, and Ryan and Maddie's father was killed there.
The story begins with two people running from a woman toward the beach and the hope of freedom. Then the story counts down the previous hundred hours from the alternating viewpoints of Genesis and Maddie as the group are kidnapped by strangers they later learn are both terrorists and drug smugglers.
I found Genesis's viewpoint fascinating though I didn't like her at all at first and gradually came to understand her better as the story progressed. I also liked Maddie's viewpoint as she discovered strengths and talents that she didn't know she had.
Fans of thrillers will enjoy this one and wait eagerly for the book which completes the duology.
The story begins with two people running from a woman toward the beach and the hope of freedom. Then the story counts down the previous hundred hours from the alternating viewpoints of Genesis and Maddie as the group are kidnapped by strangers they later learn are both terrorists and drug smugglers.
I found Genesis's viewpoint fascinating though I didn't like her at all at first and gradually came to understand her better as the story progressed. I also liked Maddie's viewpoint as she discovered strengths and talents that she didn't know she had.
Fans of thrillers will enjoy this one and wait eagerly for the book which completes the duology.
May 3, 2025
If I have negative things to say about a book, generally I don’t rate it. That way, really only my own friends and followers are likely to notice my review. Generally, I don’t want to hurt any authors.
I want to hurt this author. It is so incredibly insulting that anyone would choose to make a main character have type 1 diabetes, and use type 1 diabetes as a frequent plot point, but not bother to learn even the very fucking basics about type 1 diabetes.
Like, you know, there are a lot of us. One of us could have proofread this for diabetes errors. This author didn’t even bother to Google it, it seems like.
So many fucking diabetes errors. Everyone, you need to understand something. Please. Understand this and never ever forget it:
Insulin LOWERS blood sugar. When your blood sugar is HIGH, you need insulin.
Food RAISES blood sugar. When your blood sugar is LOW, you need food.
Exercise LOWERS blood sugar. It causes insulin to be MORE EFFECTIVE AT LOWERING YOUR BLOOD SUGAR.
“DIABETIC SHOCK” is not actually something diabetics say because it’s meaningless. There are two emergencies that can occur with diabetes: a total lack of insulin resulting in extremely high blood sugar and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), or too much insulin could, rarely, result in a blood sugar that’s so low that it’s an emergency. Usually low blood sugar isn’t a huge emergency because you can just have some food or suspend the pump from giving you insulin. Other than that, diabetes requires constant monitoring and you’ll inevitably go both high and low, but it’s not necessarily an emergency, and just having a low or a high is not “insulin shock” or “diabetic shock.”
This book has practically nothing but mistakes about diabetes. At first, I really thought the book might get it right, and I was a little excited. Because at first it talked about an insulin pump in a way that made me think, hey! Maybe this author even has diabetes and gets it!
Nope.
Maddie is in the jungle and she’s worried because she’s almost out of insulin. She has 5 hours worth left. Of course, she talks about it in a ridiculous way, saying she has an eighth of a cartridge remaining, which is something no one has ever said in the history of time. They would say how many units they have left. It says how many right on a pump. It’s not like you can see inside an insulin cartridge. They’re not clear. You can’t eye it and know how much is in there. It’s the pump that tells you how much is in there, and it tells you in units.
But anyway, she’s got insulin problems. She’s running out. She looks at her blood sugar. 80. “Too high,” she thinks.
Ummm, what???? You couldn’t Google what is a normal blood sugar? 80 is almost low!!! I’d be thrilled if I didn’t have enough insulin but my blood sugar was only 80. A normal blood sugar is 70 to 140.
And it makes sense that she’s running on the lower side, because she’s hiking through the woods. Exercise lowers your blood sugar. So she could lower her insulin usage rate and make those 5 hours into 10! Or even 15! Especially if she also doesn’t eat. Great!!
Anyway, she’s feeling woozy from “insulin deficiency.” That’s not a fucking thing. DO YOU MEAN HIGH BLOOD SUGAR??? No one says, “I’m not feeling so good cuz of this insulin deficiency.” They say, “I have high blood sugar, it’s 300. I feel awful.” Of course, her blood sugar is 80 so it’s not high at all, but I’m just going to pretend the author meant to say ONE eighty or TWO eighty.
And then she goes low. She’s, like, fucking passing out from low, feeling vertigo. What’s her blood sugar?? It’s 64. Hahahaha!!! Sixty-fucking-four. “Oh noo this is awful, I feel a little peckish!” 64 is hardly low. 64 is a normal blood sugar to have right before eating. And when you’re running out of insulin, you don’t go looking for fruit to treat the low like this girl does. You say, “Thank God, my blood sugar isn’t going high, let me suspend my insulin altogether for a while until it comes up a bit.”
Again, this MFing author just keeps persisting with the not understanding that insulin and food are opposites and that exercise helps you need less insulin. Maddie luckily finds some insulin in a super unlikely way that makes no sense. Apparently this bitch replaces her insulin cartridge of her pump even when it still has tons of insulin in it, just to change her infusion site (the place where the insulin actually goes in your body with a little tube). No one does that in real life of course — do you think insulin grows on trees??? I change my infusion site every 2 to 3 days, I change my insulin cartridge every 8 days!!! There is no reason to do both at the same time!!! You can just replace the cartridge when it’s out of insulin!!!
But okay, I’ll suspend my disbelief because she’s rich and apparently an idiot. I guess for some reason she just wastes her insulin, but her brother is like “Don’t waste your fucking insulin, idiot” and saves them for her, so that ends up helping her, finding one he saved like a hoarding psychopath. I have 3 siblings and none of them have ever felt the need to make sure they’ve got insulin on hand for me, but I guess that’s because I’m a real person and not a fictional one created by an irresponsible author who doesn’t bother to do her due diligence about a relatively common disease before writing about it.
Anyway, do you know what Maddie says in her narration when she finds this wrongfully discarded pretty full cartridge of insulin? She says as though this is a bad thing, “That’s around 30 hours of insulin at the rate my body typically uses it, but my body doesn’t typically hike through the jungle three days in a row.”
YES BITCH THAT MEANS YOU LIKELY HAVE LIKE 60+ HOURS OF INSULIN SINCE EXERCISE IS MAKING IT SO MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE!!!
I know you’re thinking, “Well maybe that’s what she meant when she said her body isn’t typically hiking through the jungle, she meant this will actually last her longer.” No. That’s not what she meant. This author seems to truly believe that exercise will cause you to go through insulin faster, the same way that exercise causes you to burn calories faster. She has no clue that food and insulin are opposites, and not at all the same thing. Fucking infuriating.
Later on she gets a bottle of insulin and this author obviously has no idea the basics of pumps. Doed she have a cartridge? Well, they don’t mention having one, so I guess she’s reusing the one on her pump currently. Okay, not ideal, but doable, sure. BUT NOT WITHOUT A FUCKING SYRINGE TO WITHDRAW INSULIN FROM THE BOTTLE AND PUT IT INTO THE CARTRIDGE. And once again, this author doesn’t know that infusion sites and cartridges are different things, so she has Maddie doing a site change by FUCKING CLIPPING THE SITE NEXT TO HER. Omfg I wish. Does the author not understand that this involves a needle??? The infusion site, it puts a needle in you and leaves behind a wire, unless you’ve got the kind that leaves a needle in you. She seems to think you just clip these fucking things to you. No, it involves pain and suffering, I can assure you. Insulin needs to actually get into your body, it doesn’t arrive there through osmosis.
Maybe you think, “Who cares? It’s just a book” I fucking care! It’s insulting and misinformation kills. Literally. People believing that sugar and insulin are interchangeable instead of opposites gets us killed. People giving insulin to someone unconscious from low blood sugar kills. People refusing to allow diabetics to have insulin and providing juice instead kills.
This also just isn’t a good book. I was about to jump out of my skin from hearing so much about what everyone’s “gaze” was doing. There had to have been three dozen mentions of gazes. Easily. And then J got to the end and it turns out that actually I’d need to read a second book to find out what happens. Annoying. This should have been one book with tons of useless shit cut out.
Whatever. In being spiteful now. I’m angry about the diabetes shit. The thing is, I got my hopes up. Type 1’s want there to be type 1 characters. We want it normalized. We want accurate perceptions of this vile condition. I kind of thought maybe the days of inaccurate diabetes representation was over. South Park portrays it accurately!!!!! The author literally could have watched the episode of South Park called “Basic Cable” and understood more. I saw a TikTok video where a 15 month-old understood it better than this author.
Do your due fucking diligence, authors.
I want to hurt this author. It is so incredibly insulting that anyone would choose to make a main character have type 1 diabetes, and use type 1 diabetes as a frequent plot point, but not bother to learn even the very fucking basics about type 1 diabetes.
Like, you know, there are a lot of us. One of us could have proofread this for diabetes errors. This author didn’t even bother to Google it, it seems like.
So many fucking diabetes errors. Everyone, you need to understand something. Please. Understand this and never ever forget it:
Insulin LOWERS blood sugar. When your blood sugar is HIGH, you need insulin.
Food RAISES blood sugar. When your blood sugar is LOW, you need food.
Exercise LOWERS blood sugar. It causes insulin to be MORE EFFECTIVE AT LOWERING YOUR BLOOD SUGAR.
“DIABETIC SHOCK” is not actually something diabetics say because it’s meaningless. There are two emergencies that can occur with diabetes: a total lack of insulin resulting in extremely high blood sugar and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), or too much insulin could, rarely, result in a blood sugar that’s so low that it’s an emergency. Usually low blood sugar isn’t a huge emergency because you can just have some food or suspend the pump from giving you insulin. Other than that, diabetes requires constant monitoring and you’ll inevitably go both high and low, but it’s not necessarily an emergency, and just having a low or a high is not “insulin shock” or “diabetic shock.”
This book has practically nothing but mistakes about diabetes. At first, I really thought the book might get it right, and I was a little excited. Because at first it talked about an insulin pump in a way that made me think, hey! Maybe this author even has diabetes and gets it!
Nope.
Maddie is in the jungle and she’s worried because she’s almost out of insulin. She has 5 hours worth left. Of course, she talks about it in a ridiculous way, saying she has an eighth of a cartridge remaining, which is something no one has ever said in the history of time. They would say how many units they have left. It says how many right on a pump. It’s not like you can see inside an insulin cartridge. They’re not clear. You can’t eye it and know how much is in there. It’s the pump that tells you how much is in there, and it tells you in units.
But anyway, she’s got insulin problems. She’s running out. She looks at her blood sugar. 80. “Too high,” she thinks.
Ummm, what???? You couldn’t Google what is a normal blood sugar? 80 is almost low!!! I’d be thrilled if I didn’t have enough insulin but my blood sugar was only 80. A normal blood sugar is 70 to 140.
And it makes sense that she’s running on the lower side, because she’s hiking through the woods. Exercise lowers your blood sugar. So she could lower her insulin usage rate and make those 5 hours into 10! Or even 15! Especially if she also doesn’t eat. Great!!
Anyway, she’s feeling woozy from “insulin deficiency.” That’s not a fucking thing. DO YOU MEAN HIGH BLOOD SUGAR??? No one says, “I’m not feeling so good cuz of this insulin deficiency.” They say, “I have high blood sugar, it’s 300. I feel awful.” Of course, her blood sugar is 80 so it’s not high at all, but I’m just going to pretend the author meant to say ONE eighty or TWO eighty.
And then she goes low. She’s, like, fucking passing out from low, feeling vertigo. What’s her blood sugar?? It’s 64. Hahahaha!!! Sixty-fucking-four. “Oh noo this is awful, I feel a little peckish!” 64 is hardly low. 64 is a normal blood sugar to have right before eating. And when you’re running out of insulin, you don’t go looking for fruit to treat the low like this girl does. You say, “Thank God, my blood sugar isn’t going high, let me suspend my insulin altogether for a while until it comes up a bit.”
Again, this MFing author just keeps persisting with the not understanding that insulin and food are opposites and that exercise helps you need less insulin. Maddie luckily finds some insulin in a super unlikely way that makes no sense. Apparently this bitch replaces her insulin cartridge of her pump even when it still has tons of insulin in it, just to change her infusion site (the place where the insulin actually goes in your body with a little tube). No one does that in real life of course — do you think insulin grows on trees??? I change my infusion site every 2 to 3 days, I change my insulin cartridge every 8 days!!! There is no reason to do both at the same time!!! You can just replace the cartridge when it’s out of insulin!!!
But okay, I’ll suspend my disbelief because she’s rich and apparently an idiot. I guess for some reason she just wastes her insulin, but her brother is like “Don’t waste your fucking insulin, idiot” and saves them for her, so that ends up helping her, finding one he saved like a hoarding psychopath. I have 3 siblings and none of them have ever felt the need to make sure they’ve got insulin on hand for me, but I guess that’s because I’m a real person and not a fictional one created by an irresponsible author who doesn’t bother to do her due diligence about a relatively common disease before writing about it.
Anyway, do you know what Maddie says in her narration when she finds this wrongfully discarded pretty full cartridge of insulin? She says as though this is a bad thing, “That’s around 30 hours of insulin at the rate my body typically uses it, but my body doesn’t typically hike through the jungle three days in a row.”
YES BITCH THAT MEANS YOU LIKELY HAVE LIKE 60+ HOURS OF INSULIN SINCE EXERCISE IS MAKING IT SO MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE!!!
I know you’re thinking, “Well maybe that’s what she meant when she said her body isn’t typically hiking through the jungle, she meant this will actually last her longer.” No. That’s not what she meant. This author seems to truly believe that exercise will cause you to go through insulin faster, the same way that exercise causes you to burn calories faster. She has no clue that food and insulin are opposites, and not at all the same thing. Fucking infuriating.
Later on she gets a bottle of insulin and this author obviously has no idea the basics of pumps. Doed she have a cartridge? Well, they don’t mention having one, so I guess she’s reusing the one on her pump currently. Okay, not ideal, but doable, sure. BUT NOT WITHOUT A FUCKING SYRINGE TO WITHDRAW INSULIN FROM THE BOTTLE AND PUT IT INTO THE CARTRIDGE. And once again, this author doesn’t know that infusion sites and cartridges are different things, so she has Maddie doing a site change by FUCKING CLIPPING THE SITE NEXT TO HER. Omfg I wish. Does the author not understand that this involves a needle??? The infusion site, it puts a needle in you and leaves behind a wire, unless you’ve got the kind that leaves a needle in you. She seems to think you just clip these fucking things to you. No, it involves pain and suffering, I can assure you. Insulin needs to actually get into your body, it doesn’t arrive there through osmosis.
Maybe you think, “Who cares? It’s just a book” I fucking care! It’s insulting and misinformation kills. Literally. People believing that sugar and insulin are interchangeable instead of opposites gets us killed. People giving insulin to someone unconscious from low blood sugar kills. People refusing to allow diabetics to have insulin and providing juice instead kills.
This also just isn’t a good book. I was about to jump out of my skin from hearing so much about what everyone’s “gaze” was doing. There had to have been three dozen mentions of gazes. Easily. And then J got to the end and it turns out that actually I’d need to read a second book to find out what happens. Annoying. This should have been one book with tons of useless shit cut out.
Whatever. In being spiteful now. I’m angry about the diabetes shit. The thing is, I got my hopes up. Type 1’s want there to be type 1 characters. We want it normalized. We want accurate perceptions of this vile condition. I kind of thought maybe the days of inaccurate diabetes representation was over. South Park portrays it accurately!!!!! The author literally could have watched the episode of South Park called “Basic Cable” and understood more. I saw a TikTok video where a 15 month-old understood it better than this author.
Do your due fucking diligence, authors.
March 8, 2017
Why was everyone making out while they were being held hostage? I mean, seriously?
November 20, 2016
Do most victims taken hostage by terrorists spend their time joyfully hooking up with each other?
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