/lit/ - Literature

The other day, I asked what this series was like. I didn't get a response by anyone who actually read it. Only a couple of guesses from pessimistic anons who called it YA slop. And I have to say, those were good guesses. It's YA slop.

This is the first book I've read that actually lives up to all the YA stereotypes. The love triangles, and the generic "resistance", and drama based on poor communication between characters, and all that kind of stuff. It was an entirely unremarkable book. At times it almost reached good status. And at other times it was very cringe. But it was never so good or bad that I felt like dropping it. It was just serviceable enough that it filled time, so I stuck with it, just because I have nothing better to read.

I was a little confused in the beginning, because it seems like the main character and her brother than communicate telepathically. Except that's never addressed outside of the first chapter. Her brother's voice is often heard throughout the book. But it's not really explained if he's actually talking to her or if she's suffering some kind of delusion. So I'm seriously wondering if her brother is even real, or some kind of fight club type of deal, where her personality split, and she doesn't remember doing everything her brother did. But that can't be the case, because other characters remember her brother too. So I'm just very confused by this weird telepathy thing they introduced early on.

They do try to write a cohesive plot, where a lot of seemingly random events that happened early on, are explained near the end to make a whole picture. Which I actually appreciate. Because I'm kind of sick of stories written to be forever-mysteries. Though, they did leave a few things unanswered for sequel bait of course. Fair game.

I really hate it when characters have to posture about how emotional they are, by acting stupidly and ruining their own plans on impulse. They do some of that here. They also do that thing where a character doesn't understand the feelings of another character, just to force a misunderstanding between them. Like be fucking for real, anyone can read those signals. Stop the show. Just talk it out.

Would not recommend, unless you have absolutely nothing else to read like me, and just want to fill some time. Now I'm going to start the sequel for the same reason.