For this week's Mark This Book Monday I have the first book of a dystopian duology that I had my eye on and then was approved for the second and final book on Netgalley.
This one is my first book for the Dystopian Reading Challenge 2014!
Starters by Lissa Price
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Starters is the first dystopian I read this year, and it was quite about time, since it's my fave genre and I hadn't read any dystopian yet so far!
Starters shows us a world that's changed after the "Spore Wars" and the society that's arised from the aftermath of it. The vaccines were made and distributed but since there weren't enough for everyone, the priorities were kids and elders. That means that now most of society are kids under 19 or Starters and people over 60 or Enders. There are barely any Middles and society has worked on extending life as long as possible.
How skewed this society was towards confort and priorities towards the Elders and how mistreated and dehumanized the Starters were, that was the biggest shock for me in this book. Seems that society has stopped caring about the future and the future generations, and they're treated more and more like a burden or a bunch of slaves, and it also seemed like there was no sense of responsability towards the future generations at all, except for the exceptions of family members. Unclaimed minors were considered and treated as barely human.
Callie is one of those unclaimed minors, living with her lil brother on the run from the government since their parents died, and trying to find a way to make sure she can get money to provide a better life and care for him. She decides to try Prime Destinations, an agency that rents Starters bodies to Enders to enjoy feeling young again. Now that has to be one of the creepiest premises ever! Someone else being you, in your body? *shudders* At first she decides against it, but the situation gets more and more dire, so she finally goes for it. What she wasn't expecting is that her renter will be attempting murder using her body!
The storyline was quite interesting, the plot quite engaging and with plenty of wonderful secondary characters that I really enjoyed. There was plenty of action and the whole when will I be myself again while trying to prevent an assassination plot kept me flying fast through the pages.
The romance bit was a lil uncomfortable for me at the end, it was quite creepy when the final revelations came, and I'm not sure how I'd deal with that if I'd been in Callie's shoes. There was never a proper triangle, thankfully and I felt that it was well done otherwise. I'm not saying anything else to avoid spoilers though.
I liked how the ending solved the main plot line and gave us enough closure but also left enough of a trail to look forward to the second and final book on the series! No cliffhanger in this one was quite a release!
Quick read and engaging enough but there was a certain something missing for me, so I'm giving it 3 to 3.5 stars.
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This one is my first book for the Dystopian Reading Challenge 2014!
Starters by Lissa PriceMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Starters is the first dystopian I read this year, and it was quite about time, since it's my fave genre and I hadn't read any dystopian yet so far!
Starters shows us a world that's changed after the "Spore Wars" and the society that's arised from the aftermath of it. The vaccines were made and distributed but since there weren't enough for everyone, the priorities were kids and elders. That means that now most of society are kids under 19 or Starters and people over 60 or Enders. There are barely any Middles and society has worked on extending life as long as possible.
How skewed this society was towards confort and priorities towards the Elders and how mistreated and dehumanized the Starters were, that was the biggest shock for me in this book. Seems that society has stopped caring about the future and the future generations, and they're treated more and more like a burden or a bunch of slaves, and it also seemed like there was no sense of responsability towards the future generations at all, except for the exceptions of family members. Unclaimed minors were considered and treated as barely human.
Callie is one of those unclaimed minors, living with her lil brother on the run from the government since their parents died, and trying to find a way to make sure she can get money to provide a better life and care for him. She decides to try Prime Destinations, an agency that rents Starters bodies to Enders to enjoy feeling young again. Now that has to be one of the creepiest premises ever! Someone else being you, in your body? *shudders* At first she decides against it, but the situation gets more and more dire, so she finally goes for it. What she wasn't expecting is that her renter will be attempting murder using her body!
The storyline was quite interesting, the plot quite engaging and with plenty of wonderful secondary characters that I really enjoyed. There was plenty of action and the whole when will I be myself again while trying to prevent an assassination plot kept me flying fast through the pages.
The romance bit was a lil uncomfortable for me at the end, it was quite creepy when the final revelations came, and I'm not sure how I'd deal with that if I'd been in Callie's shoes. There was never a proper triangle, thankfully and I felt that it was well done otherwise. I'm not saying anything else to avoid spoilers though.
I liked how the ending solved the main plot line and gave us enough closure but also left enough of a trail to look forward to the second and final book on the series! No cliffhanger in this one was quite a release!
Quick read and engaging enough but there was a certain something missing for me, so I'm giving it 3 to 3.5 stars.
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