Dragana’s Comments (group member since Dec 06, 2020)

Dragana’s comments from the SOS: Serious Overload of Series group.

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Sorry I delayed writing the review so much. I read the book for six-pack shelf too and this time I will be quicker. :)

Shelf: S is for ...
Date read: 27. Mar. 2015.
Rating: 2 stars

The Cage caught my attention with it’s intriguing summary. Here’s what I LIKED:
* An interesting concept. The idea of an alien race who keeps humans on exhibit in a cage sounds like a thought-provoking topic for a novel. It makes you wonder how no one thought about it before (at least I haven’t heard about a book that has this subject).
* Animal rights awareness is what immediately jumped into my mind. We close animals in cages every day. There are excuses like danger of extinction or ‘for their own good’. By twisting roles and putting people in a zoo, Megan Shepherd shows us that being in a cage is not fun.
* Diverse cast of characters. Alien’s habitat for humans is a mix of different environments: desert, jungle, mountains, farm and town. And six humans trapped in the cage are an interesting ethnic mix too. We have Maori, Thai, Northern-European, Americans, …
* Time jumps and POV switches just put more life into the story. Chapters alternate between all prisoner’s and have flashback recollections of the things that happened on Earth, before they were captured.
* Mysteries will keep you guessing. As we learn that aliens are conducting some kind of experiment, we wonder what is their real plan with humans. Are Cora and her friends going mad or are aliens provoking them into dissatisfaction and turning them against each-other?
* So many plot twists! My brains felt the same as theirs, going crazy from all the manipulations. I could never be sure who can be trusted, what is true and what is a lie.

But the details of the story in The Cage really irritated me. There were a lot of specific elements I DIDN’T LIKE:
* Too many POVs made the story stretched out and didn’t help in making me feel like I really knew any of the other characters. Cora was obviously the star of the story. She got more chapters in the book, just like she got more tokens when she solved puzzles in the cage.
* Stockholm syndrome in books rarely works for me. I know it’s proven to exist, but I can’t understand a person who falls for her captor. So, whenever Cora talked about Caspien’s beauty, it was really off-putting to me. He’s an alien for Pete’s sake!
"The metallic sheen to his skin had a way of absorbing the low light so that he almost glowed in the darkness—a man made of starlight. A man from her dreams."
* Love triangle as the main romance. Lucky, the human guy who was in love in Cora, was even worse than the alien. So many wrong motives and delusions… He gave me the creeps.
* There was no escape plan. Cora keeps pestering everyone that they need to escape, but she does not have any plan what they will do when they get out of the habitat. They are somewhere in space, how will they go back to Earth? I could not admire her bravery, because I thought it was suicidal.

As you can see, I really liked the general idea and the setting of The Cage. The list of annoyances seems deceptively small. Those little things that bothered me kept repeating and repeating… I could not really enjoy The Cage, despite the fact that I applauded to the general message and the idea.

I doubt I will continue reading this series. I didn’t like Cora and her way of thinking. I had enough of Cora’s crazy impulsiveness. I might check out other books by Megan Shepherd, since she has a non-pretensions writing style that is easy to read.

IN THE END…
The Cage is a book that will not work for everyone. If you are not bothered by love triangles, Stockholm syndrome type of romances or impulsive heroines that have no plan, you might enjoy the mysterious atmosphere full of twists.

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Thanks for the tip Heather. :)

Haha I grabbed Fate Book as freebie some time ago too. :) So far it's an entertaining quick read. :)

I'm looking forward to your review of Allegiance Sworn Rachel, I've got that book left in series, but I did not like book #2 very much. Still, my compulsion to finish all series is eating at me lol.

I've read my book for previous shelf, I'll write a review soon.

I'm going to read: for shelf #7.

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I'm going to read by Megan Shepherd.

I have read The Shadow Reader and it's pretty solid uf. I think I gave it 4 stars.