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Unravel Me
by Tahereh Mafi
fast-paced
Juliette spends this whole book prancing around in a bright purple leotard, which seems like a highly problematic color to make an outfit when every time you go above ground you're in an active shooter situation.
Less Whiny Adam and way more Daddy Issues Warner. Does the fact that Warner is nice to a starving dog one time make up for the fact that he (from what we can tell at this point) enthusiastically participated in mass murder? Kinda enjoyed being a little despot shit? Did some other unspeakable things that were vaguely hinted at to prove to daddy he deserved the Sector 45 job, which will definitely be used as a plot device to drive a temporary wedge between Warner and Juliette in book 3 when the truth is revealed??? I mean, I guess. Plus, his daddy was like REALLY mean to him. So we're supposed to cut him a lot of slack. It's not abuse if someone else abused you first. Everyone knows those are the rules for hot male characters in books.
Adam's singular personality trait continues to be his ability to wear the heck out of a shirt.
Kenji tells Juliette she looks "sexy" in about 80% of their conversations. The people fawning over him and telling us he's such a good friend must have never had one of these guy friends IRL.
Everyone (except Daddy Issues Warner) tells Juliette to get over herself when she's clearly grappling with a traumatic history of isolation and rejection. Rather than recognizing how overwhelmed she is upon arrival they just assume she is being a big B. No one at Omega Point seems to have done a decompression period for a stressed shelter animal before, which seemed like exactly what Juliette needed. There's no time! Omega Point could be attacked any day! There is also no time for therapy in a dystopia, even though at least one character is a psychologist.
There's not really a plot - only training montages and makeout sessions.
Anyways, I rated this book higher than past books in this series. Why? Because I read another recently published YA Dystopia that held itself out as being a great feminist take on Lord of the Flies and I'm pretty sure it set feminism back a decade (real "you became the thing you swore to destroy" vibes). At least Unravel Me doesn't try to be what it's not. This book is entertainment and I was entertained. Teenage X Men existing in a poorly crafted hellscape just trying to bone while Warner's mean daddy tries to stop them. I hope they make it, you guys. And I hope Warner explains his dumb tattoo in the next book. Off I goooooo!
Less Whiny Adam and way more Daddy Issues Warner. Does the fact that Warner is nice to a starving dog one time make up for the fact that he (from what we can tell at this point) enthusiastically participated in mass murder? Kinda enjoyed being a little despot shit? Did some other unspeakable things that were vaguely hinted at to prove to daddy he deserved the Sector 45 job, which will definitely be used as a plot device to drive a temporary wedge between Warner and Juliette in book 3 when the truth is revealed??? I mean, I guess. Plus, his daddy was like REALLY mean to him. So we're supposed to cut him a lot of slack. It's not abuse if someone else abused you first. Everyone knows those are the rules for hot male characters in books.
Adam's singular personality trait continues to be his ability to wear the heck out of a shirt.
Kenji tells Juliette she looks "sexy" in about 80% of their conversations. The people fawning over him and telling us he's such a good friend must have never had one of these guy friends IRL.
Everyone (except Daddy Issues Warner) tells Juliette to get over herself when she's clearly grappling with a traumatic history of isolation and rejection. Rather than recognizing how overwhelmed she is upon arrival they just assume she is being a big B. No one at Omega Point seems to have done a decompression period for a stressed shelter animal before, which seemed like exactly what Juliette needed. There's no time! Omega Point could be attacked any day! There is also no time for therapy in a dystopia, even though at least one character is a psychologist.
There's not really a plot - only training montages and makeout sessions.
Anyways, I rated this book higher than past books in this series. Why? Because I read another recently published YA Dystopia that held itself out as being a great feminist take on Lord of the Flies and I'm pretty sure it set feminism back a decade (real "you became the thing you swore to destroy" vibes). At least Unravel Me doesn't try to be what it's not. This book is entertainment and I was entertained. Teenage X Men existing in a poorly crafted hellscape just trying to bone while Warner's mean daddy tries to stop them. I hope they make it, you guys. And I hope Warner explains his dumb tattoo in the next book. Off I goooooo!