I'm very particular about my dystopian reads. Like I hated [b:The Handmaid's Tale|38447|The Handmaid's Tale|Margaret Atwood|http://images.gr-assets.com/books/1489652243s/38447.jpg|1119185]. But I loved [b:The Hunger Games|2767052|The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)|Suzanne Collins|http://images.gr-assets.com/books/1447303603s/2767052.jpg|2792775]. The more a dystopian leans towards fantasy, the more likely I am to enjoy it. This was okay. I didn't really enjoy it but it wasn't bad either - just wasn't my thing. It was a very long book as well. Too long. Tighter editing and structure could make this a lot more exciting. I tend to lean towards more suspenseful reads and this was more emotional and character driven. As I said, not bad, just not my thing. I generally liked the friendship between the girls and the developing relationships with their betrothed. The parents were more of a presence at the start and then disappeared as the book progressed. The ending was very abrupt. Not necessarily a cliffhanger but still very abrupt. I have whiplash from the ending. The ideas on mental health though were very on point and contribute to mental health awareness and understanding. ( )

This is one of the ones from earlier this year, when my write-up didn't go through and I left it *forever* out of being super crank about that write-up being super long and happy, in-depth about a ton of details. I really loved the new world this series took place in, the mysteries behind, the friendship between the two main girls (and how that, and the family relationships, were always more important than the girl-boy relationships).

While there were some too-convenient pieces in the ending for me to watch without some cringing, I'm quite excited to see where this world and all of these people end up. ( )

Mmmmm. My favorite out of the gate for January was my first book read even, which is not surprising entirely given it's sort of habit but I was blown away by this book. Blown away, and blown away, and blown away. It's a YA book, but the central topic of the book is not the YA Romance. There is a boy and a girl (and even another boy and another girl, and several couples in different directions) but none of these is the story of the book.

The book is about Morgan and Interment, and Morgan & Morgan's Family & Interment. It doesn't pull its punches. Its true to the things it starts and ends with, and I actually only have one argument with a happening in the book I found a little too convenient, but I'd really only dock that one half a star at the most because it's not as thought the cast isn't already large enough at that point as it is.

I almost don't even want to talk about it. Because it's that good and I don't want to spoil anything for people, the way it slowly opens, while you're chasing the world into the fog and oh, oh, oh, over the edge. I am not surprised in the slightest given this it the lovely lady who gave me The Chemical Garden trilogy, but I am on pins and needles already to see where this book will go.

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A bit boring for me, but it cost a dollar so there’s that, and I have the second book that was given to me. Also for some reason this was in the adult fiction section but it is clearly YA, maybe teen ( )

loved this! I can't wait till the next book comes out. ( )