I loved UGLIES, but IMPOSTORS feels too young for the adult I am now. It relies enough on knowledge of the first series, but I think I’d be confusing for someone who tried to start here without reading the original quartet. The new stuff that it adds feels very coincidental. Early on there’s a thing that happens to Rafi where's she's thinking about something that she predicts is totally gonna happen. It ends up forcing the moment instead of building any kind of anticipation, messing with my thoughts and chilling the meta-narrative level in a way that pulled me out of the story. There are also references to technology that were thoroughly explain in the previous books, but doesn’t really show how they work this time around. All of this makes it feel like an awkward middle ground between not wanting to rehash things explained before, but also by referencing most things based on them being different this time. Also I don’t like how the romance plot seems very forced.

I'll keep my fond memories of the first three Uglies books and I don't plan to read this new series.

Immediately disliked the style.

The opening pages have a bizarrely dense infodump between two enemies which seems entirely performed for the sake of giving info to the reader, not because the characters actually need to say these lines to each other.

Vivid descriptions of what everyone is wearing and how they look, not my style.