A review by ladyseven
Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle Korn

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.