Whoa!Kickass!

What was that?Was that lika a-?like a-?
I don't even know.
Wow!

That is all I can say about this book!Every single person on this planet should read this book.It's a requirement.It is so awesome that I don't even make sense now.I don't know whether or not I'll continue the series....only time can tell.This was definitely not one of those dystopian books with a girl in a ball gown on the cover!Loved it!This is going into my ultimate favourites list!

Bye!Sorry for the bad review! ( )

Ugh.

I don't like post-apocalyptic fiction. I hate it when the world has ended and every day is a struggle for survival, I hate it. I want to see people save the world, I want people to have hope, I don't want everything to suck to a point where it can never get better again. So, um, this is a not good book for me.

It doesn't help that the first page (basically) starts out by insulting the reader. I'M SO SICK OF THAT. Yeah, yeah, I get it, these aliens/vampires/monsters/accountants are soooooooo much worse than everything we've seen on TV and we, the readers, are stupid sheep who will never understand the struggle of the protagonist because they are facing THE REAL DEAL. Like shut up, you're fictional, your struggles are fake as fuck. If you want me to like you, don't address me on the first page and insult me for not having to deal with your superior enemies.

Then of course, after 150 pages we have our first POV switch, which I thought was a little late for that. But it worked, we definitely did need the POV of two people to get the full story ... but to also include and third and a fourth person's POV, written in THIRD person instead of first? NO. I HATE THAT. STOP MIXING FIRST AND THIRD PERSON FOR FUCK SAKE. I can tolerate Stephen King doing that because it's fucking Stephen King and he makes up for it with other stuff, but not here. I can't accept it here.

Plus, if you are going to have two first person POVs, maybe make sure that they actually sound like different people? It took me like a page or two to realize that it had been a switch the first time it happened, because the voices of the characters were so similar.

Honestly, my biggest problem is that this book was so "meh" to me. It didn't make me feel anything, not for the characters, not for the plot, not for the relationships ... it didn't even make me hate it. I did hate the little brother plot point because UGH, I'm so over cutesy younger siblings as motivation in YA fic, but that's honestly the only real emotion I felt reading this. It didn't do anything for me.

I did, I guess, kinda like Cassie, at times, but I don't like how she's ALWAYS right. Like, she has such great instincts that her first guess is almost always correct and she manages to guess a little too much of the bigger picture without any great evidence of it. I guess I would've liked to see her be completely wrong at one point, but she never really is. Things only go wrong when other people don't listen to her.

I will read the sequel, because werdly I do want to know what's gonna happen (and it is a quick read, it has that going for it) and I already own it, but I must say this book mostly had me aggressively underwhelmed. People seemed to love it, and I just don't see it. ( )

4.5 stars. Told from different points of view. The story moves along well and all the voices used are authentic. I'm looking forward to the sequel. ( )

CW: Death of parent. ( )

I'm giving it three stars because it was entertaining but way too predictable. The world building was SO promising but didn't live up to its full potential for me. Also the conflicted love interest was kinda pointless, and felt forced and unrealistic :( Might give a chance to the second book. ( )