![]() ![]() One of the characters featured in the excerpt didn't really come into play until quite late in the story, and was shown only in the background. The prior events were some much-needed exposition and rising action, but probably could've been shortened to reach the blurb more quickly. It also took the author a long time to reach the story's events that are featured on the blurb. My attention was divided between more than a handful of characters, which made it difficult for me to focus on all of them. This led to him delving into the history of some characters whom would have been better just left alone he took characters that would've been better, in my opinion, as flat characters and turned them into round characters. Told with an omniscient narrator, I strongly felt that Carman focused on too many people at the same time. Throughout the entire book, the sentences felt choppy and they didn't fit together smoothly, which really irked me.Īnother major part of the book's flaws included the point of view. One of the biggest things, for me, was a startling absence of continuity. There were a lot of aspects of this book that I thought were lacking excellence. Let me just say that this book did not come even remotely close to meeting my expectations. ![]() ![]() I was really excited about this book, partly because of how much I loved Carman's other book, "Trackers", when I was younger, partly because the blurb was really intriguing, and partly because I love dystopian/futuristic YA novels. ![]()
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