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Awaken by Katie Kacvinsky
2.0

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I went into this book thinking that I would love it. I’ve had this book on my list since the beginning of my goodreads career. So, I thought that I would put it out of it’s miserable waiting game and read it. Unfortunately, this book was a miss for me.

I felt like this book was trying to tell two stories. The first being a romance and the other being a story with a theme analyzing how our society it too dependant on technology. I think that these two stories could have worked together, but they just didn’t for me. Unfortunately, the romance felt a little too instalove for me to enjoy it; especially on the side of the main character.

The one thing I really enjoyed about this book was it’s commentary on gun violence in schools because I think it’s really relevant in our society right now. The events that happen in the book that surround gun violence are really scary because I could totally see this happening to our society in the future. Unfortunately, I can’t talk too much about how it fits into the story because it’s a spoiler, but I do think that it’s really important to talk about things like these and bring attention to the topic.
Overall, I didn’t really enjoy this book, but I do think that it could start really important conversations that need to be had about gun violence.