First up a big big thank you for allowing me to read this. But after 20% I gave up.

-I found it just too weird someone was bullied because she had blue eyes.
-The bullying scenes just went too far for me and I felt highly uncomfortable.
-You're beautiful, says the producer whatever person and then says she has to shed her whole self which just doesn't make sense. And the following scene was just not for me but on the other hand also had me laughing as apparently there was A LOT that had to improved about Emilee.
-The worldbuilding. One too much info dumping. Two, what happened to Africa? To Asia? To the rest of Europe? To Australia? To New-Zealand? I just found it too odd that it was America and Spain/Italy/Greece (since it was Southern Europe). Plus, found it odd that no one apparently took the effort to search for better spots in the world.
-But then the elite had airplanes?
-The revelation about the Famoux was just a bit too much and felt too weird and out of place. Especially given how Emilee is treated and how no one else seemed to have a glitch.
-I found the scenes in which the siblings treated the Famoux as shit not fun to read especially given that they knew Emilee was a fan of the show. It just felt very hurtful.
-On that note, I pronounced it the way I would do it as it has an x, but apparently it is FameX??? Which just doesn't make sense and my mind just broke over that.
-I found it weird that in what, 19 years?, no one actually found out why each kid born in a new year had something new (like eye colour or other things).
-I hated how everyone treated Emilee/Emily. Just because she has blue eyes everyone hated her and treated her like she was some kind of abomination. Her sister even told her that it was because she was a glitch that their mother left which had me WTF-ing very loudly.
-Spelling errors/sentences just seemed weird at times.
-Make up your mind about gray or grey. Even one time she tells us that The Greyhounds (note the e) have that name because their eyes are gray (note the a).
-It got to the point that I was talking, well, venting, about this book towards my hubby who asked me why I was still reading. To which I replied that it was an ARC and I at least had to try. But yeah, him saying that made me see that maybe I should just not continue as I kept being unhappy about the book.And so here we are. I am quitting. The book sounded amazing but I just don't want to continue reading. :(

i honesty really tried to get into this book. and i’m not sure if i just confused this book with a completely different book, since i thought this was gonna be like big brother but in a fantastical world, which it wasn’t. there was so much petty drama and so much relationship issues that made me honestly skim read some pages. and i really thought the whole DEFED thing was stupid, and just so much drama. but, i did like that the mom came back into the book.

I feel awful because I always support my fellow Wattpad authors, especially those who have been successfully published but this book just didn’t work for me. Fifteen year old me would have loved this but I guess this book was a mixture of not the right time & trying not to cringe.

I love a good dystopian and this book was honestly a throwback to some years ago when this genre was the only thing I read. I can appreciate Kassandra’s world building and the way she developed the world was creatively done. I admired the obvious time she put into the plot of the book and I liked her writing.
Which is why I am sorry to say that it was a mixture of the poorly done pacing (slowest book I have ever read and obscenely long for what it is), and the characters. I didn’t like any of them. Emilee/Emeray was a boring protagonist without a backbone and the rest of the Famoux house just drove me up the wall. I didn’t have any time for the characters and with a book that was led by the characters this just sucked for me.
I found the concept interesting but the execution of this plot just didn’t work for me and I found myself cringing at some of the chapters.

I’m finding it hard to sum up my feelings for this book but I will say I wish Kassandra all the luck and well done for being published!
I received this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.