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desiree930 's review for:
The Cage
by Megan Shepherd
I’m still not sure what the heck I just read. I did not like this book. I loved the concept, but the execution was so incredibly poor that I don’t even understand exactly what was going on.
Five teens are kidnapped by aliens and put into this elaborate zoo-like environment...to procreate? It’s totally bizarre.
Things I liked.
The concept. I read the synopsis and the idea was really intriguing.
Things I didn’t like:
Characters. They were poorly written. Cora, who is essentially the main character, gets this idea that they are going to find a way out and escape. How on Earth (pun intended) would that even work?! They have been taken to a planet who knows how far from Earth, and have zero knowledge of how to get back. Even if they were to somehow steal a ship, are we supposed to believe that they’d be able to pilot it? Ridiculous. The other characters are no better.
Plot. There’s really no plot to speak of. Not much actually happens in this book. I still don’t understand what the aliens in this book were trying to accomplish. Yes, it was somewhat explained, but it wasn’t a satisfying explanation. At all.
Romance: 🤢
Can you say ‘Stockholm Syndrome’? Because this book has a big heaping pile of it, and it’s not okay. I do not understand people falling all over themselves because of Cassian. He’s got no depth, and he’s a freaking KIDNAPPER and ENSLAVER. He also justifies his actions throughout the book by saying that it could be worse. WTAF?!
Unanswered questions. I get that first books of series have to leave things for later books, but I felt like that is all this book was. There were so many things left hanging that just did not get addressed.
The structure. This book is written in third person, and most of the characters are given chapters from their perspective. However, I felt like this was completely unnecessary to do. It was probably 90% Cora chapters, and the others didn’t add anything to the table.
I literally almost DNF’d this book at the 95% mark because I did not care in the slightest what happened. I will not be continuing with the series. I looked at reviews for the next two books and don’t see anything that would compel me to pick them up.
Five teens are kidnapped by aliens and put into this elaborate zoo-like environment...to procreate? It’s totally bizarre.
Things I liked.
The concept. I read the synopsis and the idea was really intriguing.
Things I didn’t like:
Characters. They were poorly written. Cora, who is essentially the main character, gets this idea that they are going to find a way out and escape. How on Earth (pun intended) would that even work?! They have been taken to a planet who knows how far from Earth, and have zero knowledge of how to get back. Even if they were to somehow steal a ship, are we supposed to believe that they’d be able to pilot it? Ridiculous. The other characters are no better.
Plot. There’s really no plot to speak of. Not much actually happens in this book. I still don’t understand what the aliens in this book were trying to accomplish. Yes, it was somewhat explained, but it wasn’t a satisfying explanation. At all.
Romance: 🤢
Can you say ‘Stockholm Syndrome’? Because this book has a big heaping pile of it, and it’s not okay. I do not understand people falling all over themselves because of Cassian. He’s got no depth, and he’s a freaking KIDNAPPER and ENSLAVER. He also justifies his actions throughout the book by saying that it could be worse. WTAF?!
Unanswered questions. I get that first books of series have to leave things for later books, but I felt like that is all this book was. There were so many things left hanging that just did not get addressed.
The structure. This book is written in third person, and most of the characters are given chapters from their perspective. However, I felt like this was completely unnecessary to do. It was probably 90% Cora chapters, and the others didn’t add anything to the table.
I literally almost DNF’d this book at the 95% mark because I did not care in the slightest what happened. I will not be continuing with the series. I looked at reviews for the next two books and don’t see anything that would compel me to pick them up.