thegreatmanda's Reviews (459)

This series is provoking the same response in me that the Twilight series has:

- The writing is awful.

- I wish modern authors of young adult fiction would take a page out of JK Rowling's (metaphorical, not literal) book and realize that a story that holds interest for young people does not need to be so massively dumbed-down (or as I like to call it, stupided-up) to get them to read it. The interesting story is the hook. Make the young people think while they're reading for once. Inferences and context clues do not suddenly leap into being at age eighteen.

- In spite of these complaints, I am inexplicably compelled to follow it through and learn what happens to the characters, even the ones I can't stand. *cough*SHAY*ahem* As much as it perplexes and thoroughly annoys me, I just can't tear myself away. I think it's my inner thirteen-year-old girl taking control. Scary. :)

I really, really wish that this were an inspiring series capable of teaching young people to be individuals and think for themselves, but if you remove the thin veneer of futuristic fantasy and spectacularly over-simplified social problems and solutions . . . It's pretty much about teenage girls arguing over boys.

Meh. Whatever.