The hype for this book really got me excited. I was dying to get this book, but I felt disappointed with the actual results.
I was lured in with the dystopian, survivalist premise. I thought: “Wow. That’s so cool!” I hadn’t read a good dystopian book in a while.
The action was pretty awesome, I’ll admit that. Meadow and Zephyr, while seeming impossibly fit and impossibly strong, had some cool action scenes. Meadow used her head. She also had impulses. They had interesting fighting styles. They hit hard and destroyed.
The author tried to make me think that Meadow was the Queen Badass. The only thing I could think was “godmodding, much?” (Sorry, role-playing term. Godmodding, essentially, means that you created a character who was invincible. For example, the character could jump off the Empire State Building, or any tall building, and come out unscathed.)
She was impossible. She never got hurt. She never tripped up. She’s trained, I get it, but that doesn’t mean you don’t get shot or hurt or make human mistakes. Zephyr was more human than her and Zephyr was a lab-baby. (Doesn’t make sense, does it?)
The romance was unbelievable; it was instalove all over again. After going through some books with okay romances, this was a shock. They barely knew each other. They barely talked to each other. I felt like the romance was very rushed. I dislike, and perhaps hate, instalove. Unless there is chemistry, I will dislike the romance.
As I did with this one.
The romance didn’t make their lives better. It didn’t make the story better. So, simply put, I didn’t like the romance.
The cliffhanger is the only reason I might continue this series. What happens next is a question I always need an answer to but the first book didn’t impress me, so I can’t imagine the second book being any better.
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