Yeah, another Amazon cover in which I'm too lazy to remove the "Click to look inside!" thing.
I read this book a month ago but never posted a review, so here it is.
Summary:
Vi, a teenager who's arranged to marry her match Zenn, is a goodie. She isn't a dreaded Baddie. She however breaks rules by cutting and dying her hair, walking with her boyfriend, and not listening to her transmissions. She's put in prison for a guy she falls in love with a baddie named Jag.
Reasons I Didn't Like This Book:
1. Started well, stopped around page twenty-five. At first I thought the mind control was creepy, but then it lost its effect.
2. The Romance. Boring, the whole plot of the book.
3. Better Brainwashing. Some people just wouldn't plug something into the wall, really. Aldous Huxley used a better method in Brave New World where children listened to rhymes over and over while they slept peacefully. It couldn't be unplugged, but put in a bad rhyme and you're doomed to an island. Huxley clearly knew what he was doing in 1932.
3. The Rules. Don't people need vitamin D from the sun and can't cover everything? Most of the rules are unexplained like most teen "dystopias" and therefore are useless.
4. Anyone Gay? When it mentioned girls walking with girls and boys with boys I thought it meant they were gay, but instead they were "civilized". This ticked me off and of course gays aren't mentioned.
5. The Names. Greenie, Goodie, Baddie, really.
6. Vi's Dad. He was a boring "antagonist". Vi mentions her mother had a loveless marriage to him. To be honest, most arranged marriages through history involved neither of the spouses loving each other, it's sad and simple.
7. The Action Was Boring. And the book really confused me, it was too hard to understand.
8. How Did This Happen? Elana Johnson on her own blog admits she hadn't bothered with a backstory for Possession! I mean it was confusing enough, but really? This was too hard to believe considering there are sadly far more believable forms of mind control.
9. Not Having Pets. This reminded me of a scene in the movie Equilibrium (Christian Bale!), as in way a lot.
10. George Orwell much? The ending made me think of 1984, only cheesier and with no rats.
Really, I can't think of any part I liked about this book. I remember seeing it in the store and thinking it sounded great, I almost even bought it (thankfully I bought Hate List and Julie Anne Peter's She Loves You, She Loves You Not instead, which are also two of my most favorite books, this one definitely not one). So I'm glad I spent the cash instead on Jennifer Brown and Julie Anne Peters!
Thank you Pulse it! http://www.simonandschuster.com/specials/pulseit/index.html
1 tiny little star.
What do I reccomend instead of this?
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1984 and Animal Farm (yes, a book about pigs) by George Orwell
The Giver by Lois Lowry since it also shares similar themes
Christian Bale's Equilibrium (yeah, it's a movie, but hey it's better)
7. The Action Was Boring. And the book really confused me, it was too hard to understand.
8. How Did This Happen? Elana Johnson on her own blog admits she hadn't bothered with a backstory for Possession! I mean it was confusing enough, but really? This was too hard to believe considering there are sadly far more believable forms of mind control.
9. Not Having Pets. This reminded me of a scene in the movie Equilibrium (Christian Bale!), as in way a lot.
10. George Orwell much? The ending made me think of 1984, only cheesier and with no rats.
Really, I can't think of any part I liked about this book. I remember seeing it in the store and thinking it sounded great, I almost even bought it (thankfully I bought Hate List and Julie Anne Peter's She Loves You, She Loves You Not instead, which are also two of my most favorite books, this one definitely not one). So I'm glad I spent the cash instead on Jennifer Brown and Julie Anne Peters!
Thank you Pulse it! http://www.simonandschuster.com/specials/pulseit/index.html
1 tiny little star.
What do I reccomend instead of this?
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1984 and Animal Farm (yes, a book about pigs) by George Orwell
The Giver by Lois Lowry since it also shares similar themes
Christian Bale's Equilibrium (yeah, it's a movie, but hey it's better)
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