Male love interests with crooked smiles and powerful abs.Ĥa. Our people are dying because we are feeding them poison."Ĥ. We can make sure that they are not genetically altered to benefit manufacturers. A knee-jerk anti-GMO platform: "We can make sure that crops are not regulated for profit. How ridiculous is it that the governments of said dystopias enact as their second order of business the destruction of all written materials-to "start fresh" and "take away poisonous thoughts?"ģb. The world building is flimsy dysopia about how BAD HUMANS have RUINED OUR PLANET.ģa. Men feel free to sexually harass her about 2b. The female lead is mega powerful but spends all her time worrying that she might be blushing.Ģb. Come on, authors, write a story in each book, even though you're writing a series.Ģ. There is no plot arc, because it's the beginning of a trilogy. Experimental prose aside (which is the most interesting thing about this book), the writing embodies some of the tropes I'm beginning to loathe in YA:ġ. One-sentence summary: Written in an experimental, deliberately self-conscious, sometimes meta style, this is 416 pages about Juliette's feelings and internal thoughts-"me, me, me"-so even though it's a dystopia with characters who have superpowers, don't get your hopes up that anything really happens. ***Note: this review assumes that you've read the book.***
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