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Nadine in NY Jones
Apr 11, 2015 rated it did not like it
Shelves: dystopian-and-post-apocalyptic, everyone-loved-it-except-me, fantasy-and-sci-fi, young-adult
“Say nothing. Hear nothing. Speak to no one, for they will not speak to you.”


This. Was. So. Bad.

First person present tense!! Smirking anti-hero!!! Tell-don't-show!!!!! Continuous info-dump!!!!!! It's the Quadfecta of Badness!!!!!!!! I pledged to myself to give it 90 pages to get better.

So here's a thought experiment: what if the oppressors in the Hunger Games were X-men, who had powers similar to the characters in Percy Jackson? What if these X-men held their own gladiator contests among th ...more
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Renata
May 23, 2016 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fiction, fantasy, ya
Update: upon a second reading I still think this book is pretty dumb, byeee

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This book was pretty dumb and felt like a slightly cynical mashup of a few other popular YA books, but like, it really made me appreciate The Hunger Games even more because Suzanne Collins made the world of Panem feel so real and you really understood the stakes for Katniss so deeply and so quickly, and here it was kind of like....oh they're poor I guess? some of them have super ...more
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Andronike
Nov 17, 2015 rated it liked it
I enjoyed the story that the author is trying to create and quickly got sucked into the book, but she seems to lose steam somewhere, and draws it out longer than necessary. Still, there's enough action and twists to keep me wanting to read the rest. ...more
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Jessica Haider
Feb 26, 2015 rated it really liked it
Shelves: fantasy, young-adult
Nic
Apr 13, 2015 rated it really liked it
Shelves: 2015
Ina
Apr 21, 2015 marked it as to-read
Martha
Aug 17, 2015 marked it as to-read
Linnea
Nov 11, 2016 rated it really liked it
Shelves: dystopian, fantasy, young-adult
Jennifer
Nov 07, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Kirsten
Sep 20, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: audio-read
Nadine
Dec 09, 2015 marked it as to-read
Nicole
Dec 20, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Natalie
Dec 27, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Alex
Dec 30, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Cathy
Apr 21, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Michelle
Jun 24, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
LT
Sep 06, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Lori
Nov 12, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Jill
Feb 17, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Emily
Apr 13, 2017 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Maggie
Dec 22, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Gina Heil
Jul 17, 2020 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Kerry
Jul 26, 2020 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Min
Oct 20, 2020 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Amy
Oct 22, 2020 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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