rizahw's reviews
393 reviews

My favourite out of the series so far

Ahhh, this book was very cute and charming.
I did enjoy the world, the characters and the plot, though it does start a little slow.
The little fandom references weee very sweet and I can feel the amount of love poured into this book.
There was a phrase that I found a little annoying on how repetitive it was (no, not the “good-looking giggles” I actually found it charming and relatable, as someone who runs into a similar issue around attractive people).
But overall, I loved this book. Can’t wait to read the next one in the series!
On a side note, I do agree that Zhara’s sister and her disability wasn’t handled greatly. So about .5 star off of that.

Ah, I can always trust Marissa Meyer to stick the landing for the ending of the book. This one nearly brought me to tears.
Extra kudos on finding a loophole on not writing pregnancy (as a pregnancy averse person I appreciate it)
Lost about .3 stars for me due to excessive animal cruelty and violence.
Also the plot twist, the plot twist was cool. Made me audibly gasp.

We all chose something to latch onto in different stories, for me it was what I saw was an allegory for conversion therapy and specifically conversion camps.
Where the adults force you to forget what makes you you to fit into the proper society.
With the cast so largely queer it makes sense to me.
And it’s a heist story, I love a heist. (I meant jailbreak, I just couldn’t remember the word)
Age is the experience and not a number is also an attractive concept.
All in all one of my favourites in the series.

I’d love to see this book updated for our current times, while it had a lot of interesting and valuable information, I feel like the research in this area has progressed a lot since 2012.
It’s also more on the informative and anecdotal side of non-fiction.

I love this upcoming genre of witty mystery and I need more of it