I thought the concept of Stitch was so cool! I mean, it was totally creepy and kinda scary when you think about everything that this "government" of sorts was doing to people. Stitching them so that they would think they were living out various lives on tv dramas for entertainment for people. How crazy is that? But Stitch is more than just a cool concept. It is honestly one of the best dsytopians that I have read in a long time. And book two, Shudder did not dissappoint. It is such a kick ass sequel. So much is going on! There is action from page one.


Shudder follows five different point of views. I know that sounds like a lot, but it is not hard to keep track of anyone. The book flows really nicely. The different people are in different places during the story and the chapters pretty much all go in the same order so you know who is coming up next. I am normally not one for a book with more than two point of views because things tend to spiral and get confusing from there, but Samantha Durante did a great job of keeping everything organized and it was really easy to tell whose story we were on in any given chapter. I actually liked all the point of views with this story. It worked.


My favorite part about Shudder is that you finally get some more answers about everything that is going on. Through one of the characters we got to see kind of an inside look at some of the people in charge of the whole city, or government, or whatever they are classifying themselves as. They told their side of the story and through that we got to know more about the original virus that ravaged the population in the first book.


Samantha did an awesome job weaving in some of the backstory from the first book into this book. It really helped jog my memory about what happened in the story. I really enjoy Samantha Durante's writing style. It is very engaging. Alessa and Issac and the whole gang of characters all play big roles in this story. Alessa has some strange things happening to her and I am not 100% sure that I buy the explanations that she has been getting for what it is, but I guess time will tell. There is another big twist in Shudder that I kind of saw coming once I started reading but it was still a nice little OMG moment at the end of the book when it was revealed. And it totally made me want to get a copy of the last book in the trilogy right away! Shudder is a story that really builds. It just kept getting better and better right until the end! I think I liked Shudder even more than I liked Stitch! This is a must read for fans of dsytopian. Don't miss this trilogy.