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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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Jan 01, 2017 Alex rated it liked it

I enjoy Alexandra Bracken's writing and I expected great things from this book. Unfortunately most of the book was pointless and boring, I was counting the pages hoping to finish it soon. The ending was nice and it made me curious about the second volume; I just hope it won't be as slow as this one. ┌( ಠ‿ಠ)┘ ...more

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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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