Raiysa Zuwairiyah
WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?! What was that ending? Someone please tell me it's not completely hopeless and that eventually they meet again and do the stuff that they usually do!!!!
Can I have ONE romance book where the guy isn't a playboy manwhore with an ever increasing number of sexcapades? Please? No? Okay.
The summary of the book was unique and it caught my eye. So I started reading. Here's a review of what I think of it.
The book wasn't really THAT interesting for almost the first-half of it, and soon the excitement I had from the synopsis died. I even debated whether I should abandon it. But now, I'm glad I didn't. Because the last 100 or so pages, while they dont quite make up for the rest of the book, do make it a worthy read.
The plot of the book, the story line, it's all great. Lauren Oliver did a great job at creating this whole new world in the dystopian future and hats off to that. All the details about the Book of Shh and all of those cautionary tales and quotes and rules she mentioned in parts of the book really gives you an overall idea about the world that they live in, with it's boundaries and restrictions.
As far as the romance goes, it wasn't on that cliche level which makes it all the better. I'd give it 5 stars, but at first it seemed really boring and dragged on a bit. Though I do recommend it at the same time.
17.04.23
The first time I read this book was in 2014, I think, and I loved it so much that I made at least 5 of my friends read it.
Since then, I've reread parts of it or the entirety of it many times, and after 9 years there's still more to discover and notice that adds to the story and makes me love the writer and her vividly charged characters even more.
This book will always be a part of me.
When I bought this book I had never even heard about Nora Roberts, so I asked my cousin about her and she didnt exactly say something encouraging about her. So after reading plenty other books and putting off reading this one for a long time, I finally began reading it one rainy weekend. And I FREAKIN LOVED IT!!!
From the first page to the last, I loved every bit of it. Its the first book by Nora Roberts I'd read, and afterwards I was totally hooked. I've read about 15 more of her books by now, and I loved pretty much all of them.
I'm surprised why no one is mentioning the literal rape scene here.
Spoiler:
Someone tells the guy that she's not sleeping with him because she doesn't love him and hurts his ego and he then decides to ask her whether she loves him or not and when she says yes he penetrates her to feel better abt his ego and pride and honestly this was horrifying that he thought he could do that and the author thought he could do that and that no one in the reviews is saying anything at all about this.
i haven't finished reading it yet, only halfway through and I'm LOVING it!! i highly recommend it!
