Blood Will Tell, Pearl Savage and Ascent SHORT REVIEWS
Blood Will Tell by Samantha Young (Warriors of Ankh #1)
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Synopsis from Goodreads
Eden is a Soul Eater. While that hasn’t meant much to her in the past, she’s pretty sure any minute now she’s going to go all "Carrie" on her eleventh grade class.
Noah is an Ankh. As an immortal Warrior, his purpose in life is to hunt down and kill Soul Eaters.
Eden is Noah’s next assignment. Problem is… this is an assignment with a difference. Eden’s not your average, run of the mill, Soul Eater. Noah’s job? To test Eden for possible redemption.
It’s a risky business.
Especially if Noah awakens Eden’s inner monster.
It would be kind of hard for Eden to listen to the angel on her shoulder when the devil on the other is telling her, her new best friend is a lying, scheming, immortal enemy...
....betrayal is such a bitch.
So is Eden when you get on her bad side.
Amazon kindle US/UK
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Excellent writing, interesting mythology, much promise, but the characters have virtually no time to develop as the book is very short with an abrupt ending. I would certainly read more by this author, I just wished she didn't change the covers of this particular book so many times. I loved the boy on the cover, but now he's been replaced by a generic girl in a dress. Not cool.* * *
Красиво написано, интересная мифология, но персонажам не даёт развиться формат книги. Она короткая и сюжет обрывается довольно резко. Я точно буду читать продолжение, но я бы хотела, чтобы автор не меняла обложки так часто. Мальчика, который мне так понравился, теперь заменила типичная для YA дээвушка в платье. Незачёт.8.5/10
The Pearl Savage by Tamara Rose Blodgett (Savage #1)
Synopsis from Goodreads
Seventeen-year old princess, Clara Williamson, lives an old-fashioned existence in a biosphere of the future.
When her sadistic mother, Queen Ada, betroths her to an abusive prince of a neighbouring sphere, Clara determines to escape Outside, where savages roam free.
Clara escapes tyranny only to discover the savages are not the only people who survived the cataclysmic events of one hundred forty years prior.
Once Outside, Clara finds herself trapped, unable to return to the abusive life of the sphere while facing certain danger Outside.
Can Clara find love and freedom with the peril that threatens to consume her?
When her sadistic mother, Queen Ada, betroths her to an abusive prince of a neighbouring sphere, Clara determines to escape Outside, where savages roam free.
Clara escapes tyranny only to discover the savages are not the only people who survived the cataclysmic events of one hundred forty years prior.
Once Outside, Clara finds herself trapped, unable to return to the abusive life of the sphere while facing certain danger Outside.
Can Clara find love and freedom with the peril that threatens to consume her?
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Unfortunately I had too many problems with this book as in with its world-building and characters alike to actually enjoy it.
It seems to me this dystopia was a clash of too many ideas, which together created a great mess.
The world is separated into savages and so-called aristocratic society stuck in Victorian era under the protection of steam-powered domes. However in the centuries since the domes creation this society hasn't bothered to monitor changes of the outside world so it comes as a great surprise for them that it's actually now livable. What kind of disaster made the atmosphere dangerous for humans in the first place is not very clear.
The savages have a confusing tribal system, but they have a president (presidents?) and they are not really savages. There comes the line about their genetic modification, specific breed of warriors and special mates for them... Eh, too much.
Clara's willingness to go through abuse of her perpetually drunken mother and a potential abuse from her fiance didn't make sense to me as well. Her people were behind her, most of the aristocracy was behind her. The elimination of the queen who is incapable of ruling properly should have been in the works, maybe not by Clara herself, but by certain groups among the aristocracy. Clara's plot to just escape and hide wasn't going to work anyway.
Oh, well. I know a lot of people loved this book, but sadly it wasn't for me.
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В общем, классический пример того, как хотели как лучше, а получилось как всегда. В этой дистопии навороченно столько идей, что их излишество и непроработанность мира просто привели меня в ужас.
Тут вам и аристократическое общество, застрявшее в икторианской эпохи под работающими на пару защитными сферами. Тут вам и дикари, живущие снаружи, но они совсем и дикари. У них есть президент(президенты?) не смотря на племенную структуру, некоторые из них генетически модифицированы в расу воинов, и им нужны специальные женщины в пару...
Клара - та ещё жертва с мамой-алкоголичкой на троне, которая её постоянно бьёт и унижает, а теперь ещё и пристраивает в жёны к садисткому соседу принцу. Вместо того, чтобы давно свергнуть непособную править мамочку с престола, так как за Кларой стоит и любящий её народ и аристократия и армия, она терпит все унижения, а потом решает сбежать вместе другом, как будто эо решит проблемы её королевства.
Короче, бред, от которого в восторге многие, но не я.
6/10
Ascent by Amy Kinzer (The Party Series #1)
free read
Synopsis from Goodreads
For three teens going back to the past is the only way to save the future.
After years of recession a new political party is ascending to power. To control the United States they must offer leaders people will vote for. The Party has chosen a select group of teens to attend the Institute for Youth Development (IYD) for training to become the nation’s next leaders. But no one has a perfect past and in a world where every moment is captured on film it has become increasingly difficult to find future politicians. Everyone has something from their past they wish they could change.
Marvin Winn, a casino billionaire and Party founder has funded a device that will take the chosen back in time to alter their past. But not everyone is attending the Institute because they want to join The Party. And while everyone returns to their past, one person will choose not to come back, putting everything The Party seeks to achieve at risk.
After years of recession a new political party is ascending to power. To control the United States they must offer leaders people will vote for. The Party has chosen a select group of teens to attend the Institute for Youth Development (IYD) for training to become the nation’s next leaders. But no one has a perfect past and in a world where every moment is captured on film it has become increasingly difficult to find future politicians. Everyone has something from their past they wish they could change.
Marvin Winn, a casino billionaire and Party founder has funded a device that will take the chosen back in time to alter their past. But not everyone is attending the Institute because they want to join The Party. And while everyone returns to their past, one person will choose not to come back, putting everything The Party seeks to achieve at risk.
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Again the concept of time-travel is fascinating, and this book reads like a screenplay and reminds me of Quantum Leap. I could really see it as amazing TV series, but again it's way too short, and there is no information about a possible continuation of the series. Overall, thumbs up.
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Интересная концепция путешествия во времени, но эффект бабочки не очень здесь разработан. В общем, читается как сценарий к хорошим сериям на ТВ, и несмотря на краткость и отсутствие информации о возможном продолжении, читать рекомендую.
8/10
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