lonelylizards's review
4.0
Hailey is overall an okay character it just sucks that at the beginning she is only focused on fitting in and being popular and not worried about the fact that she isn’t being herself.
Trevor is a cute character and I love his relationship with Mr.H and his relationship with Hailey near the second half was adorable.
I wish Mr. H was in the story more. Other than the fact that Trevor basically trained to save him... I love the character and I just think it would’ve been cool to have seen more from him and learn more about his past and what else he’s up to now.
Every time Preston’s name popped up I was filled with extreme hatred and disgust at the character. He is such a jerk and I can’t imagine how lonely a life of trying to destroy others must be. All of the Juventus really pissed me off, I understand the appeal of being young forever (I guess) but forcing it upon people and making laws to execute people who don’t agree with it is so messed up! Ugh Halcyon seems like it could’ve been a cool place before the Juventus took over.
4 stars because the parts I wanted to be more descriptive and longer were shorter than I’d like, and the parts that didn’t need as much description were longer than they needed to be. But I overall loved the story and will probably read more from these authors.
Trevor is a cute character and I love his relationship with Mr.H and his relationship with Hailey near the second half was adorable.
I wish Mr. H was in the story more. Other than the fact that Trevor basically trained to save him... I love the character and I just think it would’ve been cool to have seen more from him and learn more about his past and what else he’s up to now.
Every time Preston’s name popped up I was filled with extreme hatred and disgust at the character. He is such a jerk and I can’t imagine how lonely a life of trying to destroy others must be. All of the Juventus really pissed me off, I understand the appeal of being young forever (I guess) but forcing it upon people and making laws to execute people who don’t agree with it is so messed up! Ugh Halcyon seems like it could’ve been a cool place before the Juventus took over.
4 stars because the parts I wanted to be more descriptive and longer were shorter than I’d like, and the parts that didn’t need as much description were longer than they needed to be. But I overall loved the story and will probably read more from these authors.
gingerblack's review
3.0
The story was actually wonderful. It is not part of my normal type of book that I read. I was surprised at just how fast I was pulled in. Mostly out of sheer curiosity of what would happen next. Whole reason that I gave it three stars was because the end was quite a bit of a let down. Too abrupt for me.
aconitecafe's review against another edition
5.0
This book is Mean Girls meets Hunger Games. It kept me intrigued throughout the whole story. I loved that Hailey wasn't your typical YA main character. She followed the crowd to be popular, didn't accept the out of the ordinary just because someone told her it was so, and second guessed everything about herself and her decisions every step of the way. Typical teen. The "plastics" of this story were brutal, and screamed real high school experience for anyone of a Clique like that. I also appreciated that at the end of the day, no matter what was going on in the bigger picture, for these Sophomores it always came back to arguing about day to day school drama, like who's hot and who's not, who likes who, and who is smart. The world may be ending but 15 year olds will always be 15 year olds. LOL
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