Member Reviews
Rogene C, Educator
Not my style and I was not able to fully commit to this book at all. I did love the artwork, though.
Laura T, Reviewer
This book deserves maybe one or two stars, if I had not read it all the way through. For the first 60% of the book I had to force myself to read this book with boring characters trying to win a contest to go to an elite school, where they would learn all the things, instead of just one of the main subjects.
Because, ohhh, if they don't win, then they will be "programmed" into only one subject, and ohhh, the main character, KK, or whatever her name is, just can't stand to do, because then she can't invent her underwater bicycle, which she reminds us, oh, I don't know many times, but enough that we get the fricking idea. Yes, you are so so special, and you need not be programmed. You need to go to your special school.
For the first sixty percent of the book, the group works on a stupid project to try to win the competition. And it is not just me saying it is stupid. One of the other protagonaists feels the same way.
If the book had been the last forty percent of the book, it would have gotten four stars, and I would be eager to read the rest of the series. As it is, I will probably forget all about this book once I finish writing this review.
As for world building, yuck. This is the near future, where all children have only numbers when they go to school, they have flying vehicles and if a child wants to go to a school that will let them be creative and have a special education they have to compete for it in sixth grade, and only a lucky few can make it.
But there is no explanation, or anything else that is odd. There are still cell phones, that do what cell phones these days do. Oh, there are other futuristic stuff, but cell phones still take pictures, and you still make calls with them.
If you can make it to the existing bit in the final third, I would say go for it, and perhaps the next book will explain some of these things, otherwise, give this book a pass.
THanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
