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A review by sarag19
The Dysasters by Kristin Cast, P.C. Cast
1.0
***ARC received through NetGalley for review, much appreciated***
1. 5 out of 5 stars
This book has the possibilities to be good. There is an interesting backstory regarding messing with genetics of embryos that create people that have control of the elements. It just never pans out into what it has the potential to be and that happens for a variety of reasons, in fact at the beginning of the book I thought I may have picked up the second book in a series in error.
This comes down mainly to the characters. We are introduced to the Foster and her adopted mother Cora as they show up in a small town in Missouri or Misery as Foster so cleverly refers to it, cause thats what Foster is. That clever special above everything cause everything is beneath her. She is rude, selfish and no, shes not an introvert shes a jerk. Especially to Tate, she constantly belittles him laughing at his public education and his compassionate attitude. He watched his parents be killed, his town be destroyed and multiple people from the town hurt, which in a small town is more than likely just an extended family to him and when he expresses pain or wants to go back and help Foster blows up at him. Because only she is allowed to feel pain or experience loss cause shes special that way. She gets moderately better as the book goes along but only moderately and not by much.
I think Tate tries to be better but it would be nice, that good old boy who is a feminist yet calls Foster a bitch more than once. Nice feminist right there. I think out of all the character, I liked Charlotte the most, how come she couldn't be the primary female lead, even if she is a little one noted. The Core Four are not much better. They are all supposed to be older but sometimes they act like bickering children. I'm sure they are trying to tie their attitude to their elements but wouldn't be nice to have sometimes that controls fire to be calm and level headed, a little twist on that element but no. For all the possibilities there isn't much creativity in this. Although it is a diverse set of characters even if they are the secondary characters are a little one noted or straight up stereotypes. Even Tate's grandfather turns into a stereotype, the ruff and tough old man, who calls current football for "pussies" despite the fact that his grandson appears to be a star QB for his football team. Real nice, g-pa...
There are other parts that are just as frustrating. Things are convenient that way as they are the rest of the plot. Foster and Tate make it to Sauvie Island (please don't call it Sauvie...) and trigger a funnel cloud because of their emotions and afterwards, they just go have s'mores like its no big deal and there is no aftermath. We don't get much crazy weather like this in Oregon and the local media would have descended on that like crazy top story for days, people would have been recording it and it should have dragged the Four right to their door but no... Suspend your believes cause what you think should happen, doesn't. This is common throughout the entire book and it is so frustrating how frustratingly stupid all the characters.
A solid pass from start to finish and I have no interest in seeing where the characters go.
1. 5 out of 5 stars
This book has the possibilities to be good. There is an interesting backstory regarding messing with genetics of embryos that create people that have control of the elements. It just never pans out into what it has the potential to be and that happens for a variety of reasons, in fact at the beginning of the book I thought I may have picked up the second book in a series in error.
This comes down mainly to the characters. We are introduced to the Foster and her adopted mother Cora as they show up in a small town in Missouri or Misery as Foster so cleverly refers to it, cause thats what Foster is. That clever special above everything cause everything is beneath her. She is rude, selfish and no, shes not an introvert shes a jerk. Especially to Tate, she constantly belittles him laughing at his public education and his compassionate attitude. He watched his parents be killed, his town be destroyed and multiple people from the town hurt, which in a small town is more than likely just an extended family to him and when he expresses pain or wants to go back and help Foster blows up at him. Because only she is allowed to feel pain or experience loss cause shes special that way. She gets moderately better as the book goes along but only moderately and not by much.
I think Tate tries to be better but it would be nice, that good old boy who is a feminist yet calls Foster a bitch more than once. Nice feminist right there. I think out of all the character, I liked Charlotte the most, how come she couldn't be the primary female lead, even if she is a little one noted. The Core Four are not much better. They are all supposed to be older but sometimes they act like bickering children. I'm sure they are trying to tie their attitude to their elements but wouldn't be nice to have sometimes that controls fire to be calm and level headed, a little twist on that element but no. For all the possibilities there isn't much creativity in this. Although it is a diverse set of characters even if they are the secondary characters are a little one noted or straight up stereotypes. Even Tate's grandfather turns into a stereotype, the ruff and tough old man, who calls current football for "pussies" despite the fact that his grandson appears to be a star QB for his football team. Real nice, g-pa...
There are other parts that are just as frustrating.
Spoiler
Core dies early in the story but she lives long enough to pass on everything.A solid pass from start to finish and I have no interest in seeing where the characters go.