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A review by alongreader
The Warning by Kristy Acevedo
4.0
BE AWARE: this novel was originally published under the title Consider in 2016.
I was lucky enough to get both books in this series, so I was able to read them one straight after the other, which doesn't often happen with series. I'm reviewing them as their own things, though, as I think the tone is quite different from one to the next. Even within this volume, the tone shifted quite a bit from one section to another.
First: it's an amazing representation of anxiety. Alex's attacks made me feel nervous, and I was only reading about them - I can't imagine going through them on a regular basis! Her thoughts at the end that, while everyone around her was panicking and didn't know how to deal with it, but she was practised at this, hit me very hard. I had to set the book aside and think about that. (but not for too long as I wanted to see what happened!)
I'm glad I had the second book to hand, as that cliffhanger ending is cruel.
There were a few spots I felt the pace dragged, and Alex seemed to have odd priorities...I can excuse it as a form of wilful blindness, considering what was going on, but it was odd to go from 'GIANT EARTH KILLING ASTEROID' to 'which college are we going to? (none they'll all be destroyed shush)' in the same chapter. It didn't put me off reading, though, I really enjoyed these.
I was lucky enough to get both books in this series, so I was able to read them one straight after the other, which doesn't often happen with series. I'm reviewing them as their own things, though, as I think the tone is quite different from one to the next. Even within this volume, the tone shifted quite a bit from one section to another.
First: it's an amazing representation of anxiety. Alex's attacks made me feel nervous, and I was only reading about them - I can't imagine going through them on a regular basis! Her thoughts at the end that, while everyone around her was panicking and didn't know how to deal with it, but she was practised at this, hit me very hard. I had to set the book aside and think about that. (but not for too long as I wanted to see what happened!)
I'm glad I had the second book to hand, as that cliffhanger ending is cruel.
There were a few spots I felt the pace dragged, and Alex seemed to have odd priorities...I can excuse it as a form of wilful blindness, considering what was going on, but it was odd to go from 'GIANT EARTH KILLING ASTEROID' to 'which college are we going to? (none they'll all be destroyed shush)' in the same chapter. It didn't put me off reading, though, I really enjoyed these.