A review by daisha101
Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle Korn
dark
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Yours for the Taking is set in the future and spans the years 2050-2078. Climate change has devastated the planet which sparks the need for new ideas to save humanity. The “Inside” project is supposed to do just that, but there’s more to it than the public knows. This climate change based story is a good read for dystopian fans and those looking to read stories with a strong cast of women characters.
I had high hopes for this book, but it didn’t quite reach them. The premise of this book is interesting and I did enjoy the story for the most part, but there were several moments that would have more powerful if they were left for the reader to reflect on and not immediately explained away. This tendency for over-explaining made me question who was the intended audience of the book and took me out of the story. There were a few specific parts in the story that also irked me including a line about having children to fill a void and a character bed-sharing with an infant.
This story spans two decades so there’s a fair amount of time that’s quickly described in a couple paragraphs and not detailed which makes sense, but I do wish there were more scenes in the book in place of some of these descriptions so that I could get more engaged in the characters and their interactions. The ending also felt anticlimactic and I wish there was more there. Overall though, this was a book I did mostly enjoy reading and would recommend to others as I can see this being something that some people really love even though it wasn’t that for me.
I had high hopes for this book, but it didn’t quite reach them. The premise of this book is interesting and I did enjoy the story for the most part, but there were several moments that would have more powerful if they were left for the reader to reflect on and not immediately explained away. This tendency for over-explaining made me question who was the intended audience of the book and took me out of the story. There were a few specific parts in the story that also irked me including a line about having children to fill a void and a character bed-sharing with an infant.
This story spans two decades so there’s a fair amount of time that’s quickly described in a couple paragraphs and not detailed which makes sense, but I do wish there were more scenes in the book in place of some of these descriptions so that I could get more engaged in the characters and their interactions. The ending also felt anticlimactic and I wish there was more there. Overall though, this was a book I did mostly enjoy reading and would recommend to others as I can see this being something that some people really love even though it wasn’t that for me.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Child death, and Drug abuse