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Bethany
is on page 113 of 400
Based on community reviews I should be getting into this by now but... can't say I am.
Plot is developing at least? Sorta?
Dislike Darrow a bit because truthfully he's sort of boring.
The comparison to the Hunger Games must be for the rumored arena style thing that Brown has in this because Darrow does not at all compare to Katniss. She was a realistic teenaged character.
~300 pages left to change my mind...
— Dec 27, 2024 01:29AM
Plot is developing at least? Sorta?
Dislike Darrow a bit because truthfully he's sort of boring.
The comparison to the Hunger Games must be for the rumored arena style thing that Brown has in this because Darrow does not at all compare to Katniss. She was a realistic teenaged character.
~300 pages left to change my mind...
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Bethany
is on page 320 of 400
Hm.
I mean it's fun to read and for plenty of people (rightfully so) that's enough, but I feel like the exposition (or really what little and insanely fast-paced plus lacking exposition there was) is almost irrelevant?
The motive is his wife... sort of? But motive for what? What's the end goal here? Infiltrating this hierarchical group and then... doing what? 320 pages in and I still can't tell what the point is...
— Dec 29, 2024 01:32AM
I mean it's fun to read and for plenty of people (rightfully so) that's enough, but I feel like the exposition (or really what little and insanely fast-paced plus lacking exposition there was) is almost irrelevant?
The motive is his wife... sort of? But motive for what? What's the end goal here? Infiltrating this hierarchical group and then... doing what? 320 pages in and I still can't tell what the point is...
Bethany
is on page 19 of 400
Okay going to be honest this book is falling into that common sci-fi critique of "here have one billion different made up concepts and terms that make sense for me, the protagonist, but leave you, the reader, completely lost" and then not explaining it.
To be fair, I'm 19 pages in but like... admittedly I don't have high hopes. Concerned about the way female characters are going to be written in this fr...
— Dec 25, 2024 08:06PM
To be fair, I'm 19 pages in but like... admittedly I don't have high hopes. Concerned about the way female characters are going to be written in this fr...
