Åsa Avdic

I, too, won this book from a Goodreads giveaway. i was super excited to actually read this even though it is outside my normal genre. I was sooo bored with this book. I am the type that likes to put herself into the story line so that I feel like I am part of the story. There was no background to this book in my opinion. I didnt really relate to any one of the characters. It has no "oomph" to pull me in. To me, it was scattered all over the place. Even the ending was bizarre. Not sure I would recommend it.… (mehr)

This is one of those times where the premise is better than the actual story. I thought I was getting into something that would be intensely thrilling and packed with action. Instead, this book was slow paced, with tons of little anecdotes on Anna's life before this competition. The author switched between different points in time and different characters. While this was interesting and appreciated, it made it super easy to guess what happened and what was going to happen in terms of the competition. That was a bit of a let-down because I was hoping it would be something of a mystery or a twist ... and there wasn't one. The novel may be set in 2037 but there really wasn't too much that made it different than 2017, so that was a bit useless in my opinion. Overall, this novel just let me down. I was expecting a thriller but instead, I got an okay novel about a competition where I had already guessed the main points of the story.

Thank you to Penguin Random House and First to Read program for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.… (mehr)