As the last entry for this week's Saturday Pages I have a book that was one of my "me" reads but that also counts for my Dystopian Reading Challenge 2014!
Frozen by Erin Bowman
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Last year I quite enjoyed Taken, Erin Bowman's dystopian debut and with a rather interesting ending, I was quite excited to read Frozen and find out what happened next.
As always with a sequel you can expect some spoilers for the previous book, but I will do my best to keep it as spoiler free as possible for Frozen.
The story starts with Gray going on a mission lead by his father to try and contact another of the settlements in the Laicos Project, one that was considered a failure since the population ended up killing themselves in internal fights. But the people at Crevice Valley have reasons to doubt that and to want and try to turn any survivors into allies against the Order.
The journey brought many conflicts into view and even more after a pair of unexpected things happened. I wasn't expecting the Forgeries to be so central to the plot developments in this book, but they were. Not only they challenge the Rebels and Gray's certainity of what they know and how well they know each other, but also give some food for thought about what we consider real and human, how we separate us and them? What can we justify that way?
I wasn't sure what to expect when they reached the north settlement, but not exactly what we got for sure! I was so surprised about how a few generations could turn things back so quickly even when they had the technical advantage a while back.
Even if I had a few issues with the uneven pacing and I so wasn't a fan of Gray's inability to make up his mind between the two girls, and kept pushing and pulling both along, which proved quite a bad idea with such a dire mission underway, I really enjoyed this book and I don't think it suffers from middle book syndrome. While the love triangle isn't really resolved do to a quite brilliant plot twist near the end, we get a lot of plot progression, character growth and we can expect some really interesting things in the showdown between the Order and the Rebels (and their newly gained allies!).
Well deserved 3 to 3.5 stars for this one.
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Frozen by Erin BowmanMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Last year I quite enjoyed Taken, Erin Bowman's dystopian debut and with a rather interesting ending, I was quite excited to read Frozen and find out what happened next.
As always with a sequel you can expect some spoilers for the previous book, but I will do my best to keep it as spoiler free as possible for Frozen.
The story starts with Gray going on a mission lead by his father to try and contact another of the settlements in the Laicos Project, one that was considered a failure since the population ended up killing themselves in internal fights. But the people at Crevice Valley have reasons to doubt that and to want and try to turn any survivors into allies against the Order.
The journey brought many conflicts into view and even more after a pair of unexpected things happened. I wasn't expecting the Forgeries to be so central to the plot developments in this book, but they were. Not only they challenge the Rebels and Gray's certainity of what they know and how well they know each other, but also give some food for thought about what we consider real and human, how we separate us and them? What can we justify that way?
I wasn't sure what to expect when they reached the north settlement, but not exactly what we got for sure! I was so surprised about how a few generations could turn things back so quickly even when they had the technical advantage a while back.
Even if I had a few issues with the uneven pacing and I so wasn't a fan of Gray's inability to make up his mind between the two girls, and kept pushing and pulling both along, which proved quite a bad idea with such a dire mission underway, I really enjoyed this book and I don't think it suffers from middle book syndrome. While the love triangle isn't really resolved do to a quite brilliant plot twist near the end, we get a lot of plot progression, character growth and we can expect some really interesting things in the showdown between the Order and the Rebels (and their newly gained allies!).
Well deserved 3 to 3.5 stars for this one.
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