A review by paperchain
The Killables by Gemma Malley

1.0

It pains me to admit that I really didn't enjoy this book, especially since I'd been looking forward to reading it for some time and because I love this genre, and I also enjoyed The Declaration. But this book felt like a dystopian fiction by numbers, and poorly executed one at that. It covers pretty much every cliché now associated with YA dystopian fiction and the ideas, whilst interesting, simply aren't done justice. The characters are flat and boring and there is virtually no character development. I didn't care about any of them and I didn't care what happened to any of them. The only character I felt anything for was Raffy and that was only irritation at his immaturity and stubbornness, which seemed to be his only defining features. I won't be bothering with the rest of the series, and I'm bitterly disappointed at how much I disliked this book.