A review by gabs_myfullbookshelf
External Forces by Deborah Rix
3.0
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A free copy was received from the author in exchange for an honest review.
While I liked External Forces, I felt that at times this book resembled Divergent. Not just the main plot, but also specific scenes. The knife throwing scene in particular; basically the only thing that differentiated that from Divergent was the fact that it wasn't the MC whose ear was knicked by a knife, it was someone else. That is the biggest reason I didn't give this a higher rating.
Let's start with the positive aspects of this book. First off, I would like to clarify that not everything in this book was Divergent-esque. There were a lot of aspects that weren't. I thought that the ending was definitely different than Divergent for sure.
This was a fast-paced Dystopian, and so I had no trouble reading it. There weren't a lot of slow moments in this book, if any. The author really kept the plot moving throughout the story.
Now, there were a few things that I didn't love very much. Number one was, I didn't really ever connect with Jess. Or Matt, for that matter. I liked the secondary characters a lot, but Matt and Jess weren't my favorite two people, which is a bit problematic when they're bascially the main characters...well, Jess is the main character, but Matt was very important as well.
The Divergent similarities were also something I wasn't in love with. These similarities were most prominent in the beginning. The main things that bothered me were:
-Deviant=Divergent. They resembled each other a lot.
-Matt=Four. Matt is Jess' mentor, and his personality reminded me a lot of Four.
-The knife scene I mentioned above.
All in all, I liked the book, though there were things I also didn't like. I would recommend this to Dystopian lovers, because it still is a good book.
A free copy was received from the author in exchange for an honest review.
While I liked External Forces, I felt that at times this book resembled Divergent. Not just the main plot, but also specific scenes. The knife throwing scene in particular; basically the only thing that differentiated that from Divergent was the fact that it wasn't the MC whose ear was knicked by a knife, it was someone else. That is the biggest reason I didn't give this a higher rating.
Let's start with the positive aspects of this book. First off, I would like to clarify that not everything in this book was Divergent-esque. There were a lot of aspects that weren't. I thought that the ending was definitely different than Divergent for sure.
This was a fast-paced Dystopian, and so I had no trouble reading it. There weren't a lot of slow moments in this book, if any. The author really kept the plot moving throughout the story.
Now, there were a few things that I didn't love very much. Number one was, I didn't really ever connect with Jess. Or Matt, for that matter. I liked the secondary characters a lot, but Matt and Jess weren't my favorite two people, which is a bit problematic when they're bascially the main characters...well, Jess is the main character, but Matt was very important as well.
The Divergent similarities were also something I wasn't in love with. These similarities were most prominent in the beginning. The main things that bothered me were:
-Deviant=Divergent. They resembled each other a lot.
-Matt=Four. Matt is Jess' mentor, and his personality reminded me a lot of Four.
-The knife scene I mentioned above.
All in all, I liked the book, though there were things I also didn't like. I would recommend this to Dystopian lovers, because it still is a good book.