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this book does many unexpected things, and it does them well.
i'm not sure if this is the first part of something, the way so many YA books are, but i really hope it is a standalone. the way the character is left at the end, with so many unresolved issues, but with a firm purpose in mind, is excellent, and i kind of don't want to see those issues resolved. those scenes would only diminish the strengths of the book, the elements that make it stand out from so many of its kind.
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i'm not sure if this is the first part of something, the way so many YA books are, but i really hope it is a standalone. the way the character is left at the end, with so many unresolved issues, but with a firm purpose in mind, is excellent, and i kind of don't want to see those issues resolved. those scenes would only diminish the strengths of the book, the elements that make it stand out from so many of its kind.
and if you're just tu ...more
Passable dystopian fiction about a post-civil war US (not the Civil War, a Civil War) that splits the country between a religious South led by a man convinced he's the Righteous Leader and a North that, well, is the North. Which was one of my bigger problems with it: why is it the South is always the seat of religious fanaticism? Wouldn't it bave been more daring to flip it, to make the North the place (as it was back, say, during the Great Awakening and the days of the Burned Over District)?
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Jul 30, 2013
Bethany
marked it as to-read
