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Apr 11, 2018Redheaded_Reader rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
I read the first few chapters and thought the book had promise. Cassie's growing concern for her absent sister and the hinting at the dystopian nature of the setting were intriguing. Then... they switched to Becca. Who proceeded to spurt (fairly hardcore) obscenities every other word, if not more frequently. This would have been bad enough for an adult title, but this is billed as a "teen" book. Yeah, I get it: Becca's the rebel, the one who thinks outside the box. And yeah, I get it: she's in a situation where most people WOULD swear, and this is a future version of our world, so it makes sense, yadda yadda yadda... I really don't care. Hunger Games was that way, too, yet Katniss managed to keep her language fairly tolerable, and the story lost nothing by it. Adding swear words for "authenticity's" sake just shuts the book off from a large swath of potential audience. Including myself. I opted not to finish the book. There are plenty of other books out there - teen and otherwise - that are just as good as this book seemed like it could have been, and without profuse swearing.