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This title always catchs my eye... then I read the description...and realize I've read it! This has happened 4 or 5 times! I don't know why this book was so unmemorable to me. Only the names of the characters and the backstory of the slave rebellion stick in my mind.
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Re-reviewing based on most recent read (I reread this series every couple years).
This book is such a page turner! Keyes has written the chapters so that there is a climax at the end of nearly every chapter. The POV will then switch to another character (with another climax!) so there is always a reason to keep reading. They are also good stopping points if you really need to go to bed because you have been staying up too late to read the book. The overall flow of the book really gets you to keep ...more
This book is such a page turner! Keyes has written the chapters so that there is a climax at the end of nearly every chapter. The POV will then switch to another character (with another climax!) so there is always a reason to keep reading. They are also good stopping points if you really need to go to bed because you have been staying up too late to read the book. The overall flow of the book really gets you to keep ...more
Fair to middling. There's entertainment to be had. Not sure if I'll read the rest of the series. Maybe.
This ebook had a serious formatting problem. Scene cuts, or whatever they're called -- where there's an extra space between two paragraphs and usually a shift of some sort, in POV or space or time -- were not marked. One very different scene slid clumsily into another. It wS very disorienting, and there's just no way it could have been deliberate. I expect and forgive these kinds of problems wi ...more
This ebook had a serious formatting problem. Scene cuts, or whatever they're called -- where there's an extra space between two paragraphs and usually a shift of some sort, in POV or space or time -- were not marked. One very different scene slid clumsily into another. It wS very disorienting, and there's just no way it could have been deliberate. I expect and forgive these kinds of problems wi ...more
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couldn't really connect to the characters. there were too many of them in the first place, acting as narrator.
the author eliminates the characters so quickly and mercilessly that i didn't even try to pick favorites, afraid that i'll be dissapointed. :p
might buy the second book, just out of curiosity what will happen next, the first book is already rather devastating and tragic, i don't know if i need more of it. ...more
couldn't really connect to the characters. there were too many of them in the first place, acting as narrator.
the author eliminates the characters so quickly and mercilessly that i didn't even try to pick favorites, afraid that i'll be dissapointed. :p
might buy the second book, just out of curiosity what will happen next, the first book is already rather devastating and tragic, i don't know if i need more of it. ...more
Sep 12, 2009
Amber
marked it as to-read
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Gaijinmama
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Apr 24, 2010
Jia
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Sep 04, 2010
Steven
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Sep 19, 2011
Roberta
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Nov 14, 2011
Evaine
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Jun 22, 2014
Daphne
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Feb 09, 2020
Tani
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