It is time to abandon ship me mateys!

Another book I just couldn’t bring meself to finish. This is a young adult dystopian novel. The book has a interesting premise of young teens and children fighting against the establishment so that they can have basic rights like a less dangerous workplace, food, and better salaries. Basically the children are trying to start their own union. It’s a world reminiscent of the factory settings of the turn of the century where bad things like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire occurred. Except instead of making clothes, the children are making weapons of war. Oh and there are interesting diseases because of genetically modified corn. That was cool.

The world building was fun and the I liked two of the main characters. Basically this story is told from the perspective of three different children. Ty (a girl) and Colin (a boy) are best friends who work in the factories. Lena is the daughter of the rich dude who runs that area of the country.

Ty was tenacious and feisty and fierce. I loved her. Colin was overall a decent character. I didn’t adore him by himself but his relationship with Ty was lovely. Lena was basically a fluffy headed naive moron. She meets Colin. Insta-love kinda happens and then the book derails.

The major problem was that I just become bored. I felt that the story was too slow and got too involved in the romantic ideas between Lena and Colin. The beginning of the story and set up was fine. But the plot was agonizingly slow. I stopped reading at 52.1% and the major movement of forming the union hadn’t really begun.

Overall the politics of forming the children’s union just seemed too simple and the relationship between Lena and Colin seemed to have taken center stage, So I gave up.

It is a shame that an interesting premise and some great characters could not save this book for me.

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