A. J. Betts

This is pretty much the usual unexceptional dystopian young adult book. Character (usually a teenage girl) lives in a limited world and controlling and doesn’t know the outside world exists. She discovers something which leads her to question everything she’s been taught and with the help of a teenage boy (or two) goes on to discover that there’s more to the world than she knew.
The plot is reasonably compelling towards the end, but mostly due to the curiosity factor. The characters aren’t anything special. The world is reasonably original, but the world building isn’t particularly compelling, and the ideas aren’t original at all. It was set in Australia, which is slightly more unusual than America but doesn’t really make it any better. The themes weren’t anything special. There was no politics and not much end of the world themes. There was pretty much no action and not much conflict.
I didn’t enjoy it, but I don’t like this sort of book. People who like young adult dystopian might enjoy it.… (mais)