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A review by kstring
Defiance by C.J. Redwine
3.0
First read: December 2012; 5 stars
Very well written. I got sucked into the story line and became the character. I breezed through this book in 3 days because it was so absorbing! Love it! Can't wait for the next book to come out.
New review:
I am struggling to rate this book after reading it for the second time because I really disliked the audiobook reader and I think that's definitely got me biased. It was easy to tune out, so I missed some stuff. Coming at this book again 3.5 years after first reading it, with a lot more YA novels under my belt, I saw some flaws I didn't see the first time. The story line is not as substantive as I would have liked it to be. A lot happens, but not a lot is explained; the story jumps between plot events. What I really liked, though, was the development of the romantic relationship between Rachel and Logan. It had a history, and some serious thought was put into it by both characters before deciding whether or not they loved the other. One of my biggest pet peeves is when, in the course of a page, one character goes from having a crush on the other to feeling like they can't live without the other and all they can think is "I love you, kiss me, I can't keep my hand off you even though I have for the past 16 years of my life." Middle school romance, much? There should be a term for that--flash love? Anyway, that's not so much the case in this book, which made the romance line very appealing.
I want to know more about the Cursed One. It's a major character in the plot in terms of importance to way of living, but we don't know hardly anything about it. All I have in my head is a picture of a ginormous blind maggot. That's all I got.
I might come back later and expand this review.
Added thoughts: I think the real reason I didn't like this book was the writing style. It's sometimes hard when someone is reading it to you to pick up on things like that, but I think that was a barrier for me. I didn't find the text engaging and so I just didn't care enough to listen astutely to the audiobook and learn what was going on. Please keep in mind that it has been 3+ years since I've read this, so everything was a surprise again and it wasn't my familiarity with the book that made it unexciting.
Very well written. I got sucked into the story line and became the character. I breezed through this book in 3 days because it was so absorbing! Love it! Can't wait for the next book to come out.
New review:
I am struggling to rate this book after reading it for the second time because I really disliked the audiobook reader and I think that's definitely got me biased. It was easy to tune out, so I missed some stuff. Coming at this book again 3.5 years after first reading it, with a lot more YA novels under my belt, I saw some flaws I didn't see the first time. The story line is not as substantive as I would have liked it to be. A lot happens, but not a lot is explained; the story jumps between plot events. What I really liked, though, was the development of the romantic relationship between Rachel and Logan. It had a history, and some serious thought was put into it by both characters before deciding whether or not they loved the other. One of my biggest pet peeves is when, in the course of a page, one character goes from having a crush on the other to feeling like they can't live without the other and all they can think is "I love you, kiss me, I can't keep my hand off you even though I have for the past 16 years of my life." Middle school romance, much? There should be a term for that--flash love? Anyway, that's not so much the case in this book, which made the romance line very appealing.
I want to know more about the Cursed One. It's a major character in the plot in terms of importance to way of living, but we don't know hardly anything about it. All I have in my head is a picture of a ginormous blind maggot. That's all I got.
I might come back later and expand this review.
Added thoughts: I think the real reason I didn't like this book was the writing style. It's sometimes hard when someone is reading it to you to pick up on things like that, but I think that was a barrier for me. I didn't find the text engaging and so I just didn't care enough to listen astutely to the audiobook and learn what was going on. Please keep in mind that it has been 3+ years since I've read this, so everything was a surprise again and it wasn't my familiarity with the book that made it unexciting.