I didn’t love this book, and I likely won’t finish the series. It felt really weak and expected, considering the attention it’s gotten. People are comparing it to Hunger Games, so I’m just curious what they saw here that I didn’t. I laughed some reading it, but mostly I eye-rolled. And trust me, I am HERE for YA tropes and I am in for the overly obvious love triangle that these books require. But this didn’t do it. And I don’t believe that you can make a BFF you’re willing to die for in like 8 days when that person is cagey and deliberately standoffish.
The good takeaway was the hoverboard riding, and even after reading the whole book, I couldn’t really tell you how high the thing could go or what it looked like or any rules for operating. There was just a lot of journeying (why?) and endless angsty dialogue (bleh) and decisions made WAY WAY too fast with unclear motivation. Oh, and then desperate love after no conversation or connection whatsoever. Just like “then there was a boy and I am deeply in love with him and willing to sacrifice anything.” Is that what men think about teenage girls? Ew.
I’m being mean. Sorry. I just don’t understand book popularity. This concept is creative and has SO much cool potential, and yet this book was just not my jam.
