So, bee in my bonnet and this not working for me aside, let's just get into the more useful, readers' advisory bits. there are just too many variables, too many moments where i was like "well, but if they can do that, why wouldn't they just do that instead of going all roundybout?" and "how does this system prove anything when this and that can happen to so easily undermine it?" basically, everything i mention in my review for the first book plus more, new confusions. and this book also offers explanations to sort of mitigate the head-scratchers from dualed, but even these didn't work, for me. but even there, veronica roth eventually, in the second and third parts, explained some of the things that made no sense. and i have read and enjoyed plenty of books whose world-building was implausible. and that's fine - these books have an intended audience and i am way older than that audience and just because many books geared towards teens have gotten very sophisticated and challenging these days, it doesn't change the fact that they were written with a different age group in mind, one which is still rosy with youthful glow and able to accept certain things without question.īut for me, this world just doesn't make sense the way it is written. So this might just be one of those YA books that doesn't make it into the crossover appeal basket.
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