A review by hayleyg84
The Declaration by Gemma Malley

3.0

When I first started reading this book, I loved the concept and expected to give it a much higher rating. It's an interesting premise for a book and realistic enough to have that slightly unnerving prophetic edge that a good dystopian story needs. The idea and problems associated with the human race finding a cure for death were explored within this but I just felt like more depth was needed. To be fair, I'm not the target audience and so maybe that's why I felt that events were sometimes rushed or just not developed as well as they could be. In some places characters felt more like caricatures than real people. The good people were very good (for example Peter coming to find Anna just didn't feel believable to me. For someone who has been hiding all his life, why would you voluntarily give yourself up to rescue someone you had never even met?) and the bad people did not seem to have any redeeming features at all. However, I still throughly enjoyed this easy read and will definitely read the next one.