Bingo Square: Underrepresented This trilogy seemed to be very popular around the time I started getting into YA and dystopian novels but despite the positive reviews, I never got around to it. I think I was worried about overdoing it and burning myself out but I always meant to get around to the trilogy. It’s just other, newer books kept coming up. I finally downloaded it this year, but was trying to push myself to work through earlier downloads, so I still hadn’t started it […]
If by “Legend” you mean “won’t be remembered next week,” sure.
There were two big problems with my experience reading Legend: first, I should have read it five years ago; second, I listened to the audiobook, which was so perfunctorily narrated that the cheesy-ness of the line reading just emphasized how pedestrian the prose and dialogue are. I don’t listen to a lot of audiobooks, but I had hoped to make more of a habit of it since my current job is well-suited for listening to them while I work. Unfortunately, I think there is something […]
Love Must Make Sacrifices in War
Rating: 4.5/5 Summary: It has been months since Day & June went their separate ways at the end of Prodigy. Though they still care for each other, Day doesn’t want to burden June with his fatal prognosis. A peace treaty is being negotiated between the Republic and the Colonies when a tragedy strikes. Plague has spread throughout the Colonies and they’re blaming the Republic. The only hope for a cure seems to be Eden, but Day has already sacrificed his whole family for the Republic, […]
I can’t. I just can’t.
This was really bad. I wish this was one of those “this was so bad, it was good” things. Like that movie The Room, or anything starring Lyndsay Lohan. But this one is just plain old bad. I know, I sound like a broken record when I say that I need to stop with the bad trilogies already. A promising first novel is great, but it rarely seems to mean that the quality will continue throughout the forced trilogy. I was re-reading my reviews for […]
Yet another disappointing third book in a YA dystopian trilogy.
I am exhausted from being yo-yoed around by this book. Up and down and back around. I was prepared for disappointment after Prodigy and the way the series seemed to be heading, but even so I was still disappointed even over that prior disappointment. The ending to this series has cemented my resolve not to start YA series without 1) High recommendations from people I trust, and 2) Having a pretty good idea that the series isn’t going to careen off a cliff at the […]