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The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1)

Alexandra Bracken

Start date: April 1, 2018

Finish date: April 30, 2018

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Aug 02, 2018 Suzzie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Why did I seriously wait for movie to be advertised before reading this? It was awesome! I thoroughly loved the world building and characters in this book. I am so glad I have the next two books on my bookshelf to get to very soon. The world building and plot was so intriguing and an amazing concept and the author hit a home run with these characters! So enjoyable.

My quick and simple overall: fun and exciting read!

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Apr 19, 2018 Karen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ya-dystopian, ya-favourites

I was surprised how much I liked this book!

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Oct 28, 2019 Melissa Richardson rated it liked it

I enjoyed this book. I have read a lot of horrifying reviews but they seem pretty baseless and geared more toward personal preference. These books were written for teenagers, not adults. The thought process of a teen is drastically different. Their decisions are more basic and hormonal rather than systematic. I thought the plot was pretty tight and the characters were realistic. It was a good start to what I hope will be a good story. Looking forward to starting book2.

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Aug 04, 2018 Vulco1 rated it liked it

Shelves: strong-women-characters, science-fiction, science-fiction-contemporary, fantasy-contemporary, woman-protagonist, apocalypse-post, ya, authors-black, author-minority, 2018-should-reads

What - Dystopian society where kids have super powers and are in concentration camps

X meets Y - Lord of the Flies meets some road trip book

Who likes - people that like YA, dystopia and scifi

Pros: Pretty good writing about a group of kids on the run from most of society, trying to find kid Eden. Prose was good. Fine edition to this particular genre.

Cons: I didn't really believe how well adjusted and knowledgeable the kids were. It seemed like they should have been less well educated and certainly ...more

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