Reviews

Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle Korn

smilesgiggle's review against another edition

4.0

What I loved most - ended with hope.
Realistic dystopian examination of gender selection - women, intelligence, purposefully selected. A very biased selection by one woman with a massive agenda. Told over decades to allow for plot building and experiencing life in the dome. No outside windows - totally cutoff from the outside world.
Smart. Terrifying. Very creative. Great read!

bc7ate9's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

3.5

wordnerd99's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

carrieemoran's review against another edition

4.0

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC of this book. I often find it hard to get into sci-fi / post-apocalyptic fiction because it takes a minute to wrap my head around what the world is in this scenario, and sometimes that can feel heavy handed, where the world is developed more strongly than the characters. That said, I think the author did a good job of balancing the two. I loved how queer this book was and how much it centered on gender and the way it is enforced in societies. I wanted to keep going and see what would happen, and was surprised by the length of time covered in the span of the storyline. I'd read a sequel!

holliewong's review

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

megabees's review against another edition

3.0

yeah shit it would be fucked up if all that happened, wouldn’t it? 

anyways. 

feels like the author had an agenda and I definitely would love to push her on some of those takes 

cmcryst's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.5

ladyseven's review against another edition

2.0

I can see that the author had a message she wanted to convey. I just wish she would've done it with better plot. Most of this was build up on concidences, love and a non-existence of a goverment or regulatory system.
The fact that this kind of projects could be entirely run by civilians is more of a fantasy plot point than a sci-fi one.
If climate change eradicated goverments... okay cool I guess? But by the end of the book, there's mention of some entity that might intervene now that things have happened, so... there is something, what tho? We don't know. Also, where the fuck was the military? Only in dialogues mentioning that they exists... but not a single mention of anything useful they´ve done.
We have a megalomanic civilian lady and no other power structure to compare her to?

So in the end, this book is not plot driven but character driven, am I right? uh, kinda but not really. For me, to be a character driven book your characters need to be properly fleshed out and have a distinctive evolution curve. Here, some characters remain stagnant through the entire book, others, like Shelby only react to things. I feel sorry for her, Jaqueline treated her like a token and this book did the same. Take her out of the book and things would've been the same, she contributed nothing to the overarching scheme of things.

I came into this book with low expectations because I had read some reviews before but the last time I selected a random audiobook from libby it worked out fine since I really enjoyed it, this time I cannot say I didn't enjoy reading it but I was constantly rolling my eyes at this characters and their childish naivete.

courtneybswanson's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

cashewenemy's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

pretty entertaining but the writing is ABYSMAL. it's very buzzfeed and netflix-ified. id watch the tv show of this but thats not what im looking for in a book