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Saturday, January 8, 2011
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
"In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power, and about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her future—between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded in so much death?"
WARNING: Contains spoilers
I didn't have a huge problem with this book. Honestly. It had me hooked, I teared up once, and I had a hard time putting it down. I'm a sucker for dystopias, and post-apocolypses, first person-present tense, and zombies, so I should've loved this book.
But I didn't.
First, for me, all of the likeable characters ended up dead. I couldn't stand Cass, Harry was decent, and Mary was annoying as heck. Jacob and Argos were alright, on the borderline. But the two characters I ended up loving were Jed and Travis. And even Travis was fairly bland most of the time.
Hm, and let's review what happened! Travis got mauled by Unconsecrated and Jed was pulled off a cliff and fell into a river!
I mean, I don't have a problem with characters dying. My favorites ALWAYS die. But I hate it when the main character goes, "oh! I'm so sad! nooooo!!!" and then, two chapters later when the author decided they don't want the character to show up anymore, "meh, let's forget all about this person." That is the worst kind of death, for me.
Second, it seriously slowed down in the middle when they're just hangin' out at the village place. I was bored out of my mind and kept thinking, "enough with the horrible romance! Come on Unconsecrated, make this interesting again!" I was happy when they finally did.
And then, third, I hated the love triangle/square whatever. It was horribly done, and I was just sick of Mary moping around. Especially with the Bonding, when Travis didn't speak for her, it was like "QUIT YOUR MOPING!!! Come on, is the guy REALLY that bad?" And nothing annoys me more than a canon pairing where they have no chemistry. Well, Travis/Mary wasn't exactly canon, because you kinda need both factors alive for it to work and... yeah.
Ugh. The ending. That was horrible. I hate bad endings. There was next to no closure, and it just sort of dropped out of nowhere.
But I didn't.
First, for me, all of the likeable characters ended up dead. I couldn't stand Cass, Harry was decent, and Mary was annoying as heck. Jacob and Argos were alright, on the borderline. But the two characters I ended up loving were Jed and Travis. And even Travis was fairly bland most of the time.
Hm, and let's review what happened! Travis got mauled by Unconsecrated and Jed was pulled off a cliff and fell into a river!
I mean, I don't have a problem with characters dying. My favorites ALWAYS die. But I hate it when the main character goes, "oh! I'm so sad! nooooo!!!" and then, two chapters later when the author decided they don't want the character to show up anymore, "meh, let's forget all about this person." That is the worst kind of death, for me.
Second, it seriously slowed down in the middle when they're just hangin' out at the village place. I was bored out of my mind and kept thinking, "enough with the horrible romance! Come on Unconsecrated, make this interesting again!" I was happy when they finally did.
And then, third, I hated the love triangle/square whatever. It was horribly done, and I was just sick of Mary moping around. Especially with the Bonding, when Travis didn't speak for her, it was like "QUIT YOUR MOPING!!! Come on, is the guy REALLY that bad?" And nothing annoys me more than a canon pairing where they have no chemistry. Well, Travis/Mary wasn't exactly canon, because you kinda need both factors alive for it to work and... yeah.
Ugh. The ending. That was horrible. I hate bad endings. There was next to no closure, and it just sort of dropped out of nowhere.
RATING: 3 stars
Well, post numero uno!!
Hi. This is my third attempt at blogging. Let's hope it doesn't fail epicallly. :)
I'll be doing reviews of YA books soon- I have two finished and to be posted, once I finish this entry.
I'm fairly new to this, so give a writer a break! I mean, I can write fiction, but blogging? Completely different.
Well, I think that's it.
So, bye?
I'll be doing reviews of YA books soon- I have two finished and to be posted, once I finish this entry.
I'm fairly new to this, so give a writer a break! I mean, I can write fiction, but blogging? Completely different.
Well, I think that's it.
So, bye?
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