and most of the scraps come out of the shadows and stand with him, and they form their own gang, the loners.Īs an added complication, the virus seems to only affect teens until they turn 18. and that is where we meet our hero david, and his younger brother will.Īnd there is an incident that catapults david into the center of awareness, and makes him a hero.
it's pretty gross.īut apart from all these groups, there are the outcasts.
varsity gets the most of the food - all the asshole jocks shoving the freaks and the skaters and the geeks and the nerds out of the way, and claiming lovers from the pretty girls. and these gangs protect their own, fiercely, and compete for the food and supplies that are air-lifted into the courtyard by helicopters. the virus has made their hair fall out and then grow back white, and in order to differentiate themselves, they dye this white hair into different colors, with available materials, signifying their gang affiliations: yellow for the pretty girls, red for the sluts, black for the nerds, blue for the freaks, etc etc. and the kids have arranged themselves into factions. all of a sudden, a teacher was puking out his insides, and then - bam! - helly-copters and quarantine. i understand the mechanics of the quarantine - tent, guards with rifles, etc, but not how quickly the response was carried out. So this high school (somehow) gets quarantined. and every adult that goes near them will start to twitch and then BLOODILY VOMIT OUT THEIR ORGANS. Quick breakdown - so there is a virus, yeah? and it turns teens into weapons.
That is the only time i will use a kitten to demonstrate a "flaw."ĭid you like Divergent? were you able to enjoy the pacing, the action, the characters, the rainbow of violence, without falling into the "wait, but why." intellectual knee-jerk mode that is so natural, but detrimental to the enjoyment of dystopian YA lit? if you did, you will have no problems enjoying this one. because as much as i love these kinds of books, plenty of them are lackluster and very samey: Trapped, The Way We Fall, No Safety In Numbers, etc.Īnd this one is not without flaws, but they are the kind of flaws where the sheer fun of the book dwarfs the flaws. this is not the same as expecting to dislike it, mind you, i was hoping to like it, but i was bracing myself for it to be bad, because i am a realist. I was very prepared to dislike this book.
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