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I am a fan of good YA fiction- sure, Harry Potter, Hunger Games; Divergent was not too bad, ditto the Grisha trilogy, can't wait for Marissa Meyer's Winter to come out- BUT- this appears to have been written BY a teenager, not FOR a teenager. It reads like raunchy fanfiction. The heroine is a total Mary Sue; an ordinary girl who has been chosen for an extraordinary position and given extraordinary powers because she is somehow worthy of it...which we see in no way whatsoever. Throughout the whole book she is whiny and angsty; we never see her dig deep to face a fear or save anyone at any personal cost. She isn't even a very nice person- as soon as she has a little power/ position that allows her to get away with it she acts very immaturely toward a meangirl.She supposedly looks completely ordinary- but throughout the book at least four if not five men, most of whom are rich/ powerful/ incredibly hot themselves, are falling all over her. She is obsessed with her boyfriend but all he has to do is go out of town (for an important reason) and she assumes they are broken up, there is the whole Big Misunderstanding that is only a problem because she wouldn't talk about it, and as soon as the author wants to create sympathy for her falling for somebody else the hero becomes a bureaucratic tool (which he never was before) and the other guy magically transforms from a kind of wierdo surfer dude into someone who has her back no matter what. Plus, this may just be me, but I have a problem with sensationalized rape and oral sex in a book aimed at teenagers- but that may just be me.
April 2015 · Kindle Store · verified purchase