melbsreads's review
3.0
Trigger warnings: death of a parent (in the past), death of a family member, violence, explosions.
I picked this up because a) it sounded super intriguing and b) it's not often you come across YA books with a 14 year old protagonist and I thought it might be a good one to recommend to younger YA readers.
And while I loved the concept of this, I think ultimately it just wasn't long enough to deal with things in any sufficient level of depth. I mean, this is a fraction over 200 pages and in that time, we jump from England to Greenland to England to Malta to Italy to Greenland. Like...that's a lot of travelling and a lot of adventure-y stuff to cram in when you also have to set up a dystopian world and introduce a whole host of characters. So I wanted to love this. But ultimately, it was just too short and so it came out at a middling read.
I picked this up because a) it sounded super intriguing and b) it's not often you come across YA books with a 14 year old protagonist and I thought it might be a good one to recommend to younger YA readers.
And while I loved the concept of this, I think ultimately it just wasn't long enough to deal with things in any sufficient level of depth. I mean, this is a fraction over 200 pages and in that time, we jump from England to Greenland to England to Malta to Italy to Greenland. Like...that's a lot of travelling and a lot of adventure-y stuff to cram in when you also have to set up a dystopian world and introduce a whole host of characters. So I wanted to love this. But ultimately, it was just too short and so it came out at a middling read.
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