+LGBT
+boys-who-love-boys romance
+characters/characterization (including their flaws)
+world-building (including the race/socioeconomic allegory)
+representation (race, religion, sexuality)
-dystopian
-predictability of plot/plot-twists
-the ending
-the ending
So yes, I sped read the end of this yesterday...when I finished it. I was sooooo pisssssed offfff. So much. So much so that I almost immediately put it into my Donate pile. I told myself I was tired and that I needed to sleep it off. Slept it off. Still pissed (just maybe less, maybe).
I love plot twists. I love unpredictability. But unfortunately a lot of the plot twists were predictable (that Dara could ___; that Lehrer was ___; that Noam would ___; that Sacha was ___); all of it I saw coming (then again, that could be the writer in me, I don't know).
But the end where ___ did the thing to ___, and when ___ and ___ didn't do that other thing?? God, I was...I still can't.
And apparently its a series. Maybe the next one will make things better. Make me feel better. But listen, if it doesn't....
Also, apparently, a few other people (GoodReads Reviewers are also equally as pissed/disappointed at the end).
Here's a quick summary for you still willing to give it a chance (I mean do it, the writing was good and the pros outweighed the cons when I did that just now):
["In the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam Álvaro wakes up in a hospital bed, the sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath. His ability to control technology attracts the attention of the minister of defense and thrusts him into the magical elite of the nation of Carolinia.
The son of undocumented immigrants, Noam has spent his life fighting for the rights of refugees fleeing magical outbreaks—refugees Carolinia routinely deports with vicious efficiency. Sensing a way to make change, Noam accepts the minister’s offer to teach him the science behind his magic, secretly planning to use it against the government. But then he meets the minister’s son—cruel, dangerous, and achingly beautiful—and the way forward becomes less clear."]
Trigger Warnings: genocide, murder/death, rape, suicide, forms of abuse, etc
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