![]() ![]() By the end, the pace does pick up enough to where the writing issues can get ignored (or, perhaps, the reader becomes inured?) so that reading the story is not a complete loss. Coupled with very pedantic writing using nearly every cliche metaphor in the book, and it becomes obvious that the reader would have to have a huge lack of sophistication in order to overlook the glaring issues. It’s logic, inconsistency, and character issues that are a problem throughout the book. It was hard not to roll my eyes every time it happened. It just translates as weak writing to me, all for the sake of DRAMA. And do we have to have the cliche of a parent not telling the child the whole story just so the writer can ‘surprise us’ later? Because that is a recurring motif – someone about to import important information to the protagonist but then being interrupted so all they do is hint. But then to add the cliche that the father never explains WHY the government wants twins – to torture and experiment upon – and that he seems to think they have a choice to stay together and die is ridiculous. I don’t know of many people who are terrorized and watching their last parent die who will be so flippant. In the above abridged dialogue, as soon as we have the sarcastic answer from the daughter, the writer has lost me. She realizes she has ceased to breathe.Īnd then they are interrupted by her sister entering and he says no more – just dies. Either stay together…which means you’ll be hunted the rest of your life…” Where’s her father going with this? Is he delirious with fever or is this for real? “I don’t get it. He continues on, “.and the government wants twins.” What is he about to tell her? And why does she feel a sudden dread? ”Yeah, because you didn’t sign the loyalty oath.” “One Thing,” her father says, “You have a choice to make.” …”There’s a reason the government’s after us.” We get a dialogue on his death scene as follows: Following is a scene where two girls have lost their mother earlier, are on the run and desperate, and their father is dying of an infection. All the while being hunted.įor me, it was within the first few pages that we have an example of the problem with the book: illogical scenes and lack of realistic character building. From there, they will have to survive a dystopian landscape deadly with all kinds of perils – both human and animal. Book will fall instantly in love with Hope at a visit to her camp and gets an urge to rescue her. For Book is a Less Than, and along with twin girls at a neighboring camp, they are unneeded and serve only as experimentation or hunting options. Book soon learns the truth about his camp when a new boy shows up – one who knows what’s really going on. Hope and her sister Faith have been on the run with their father but when he dies, they are quickly captured and sent to a special all-girls camp. Story: Book lives at a camp for boys – inmates are called LTs and they are sure it means they are in training to be lieutenants in a dystopian American army. ![]() But as a time waster, there really are so many better options out there. Which isn’t to mean this is a terrible book rather, a reader has to be very undemanding to fully appreciate the story and take it fully at face value. Those who are looking to avoid yet another sloppily written, illogical YA dystopian with copious amounts of meaningless action culminating in a soppy insta-luv romance should avoid The Prey. It’s the sort of book you want to quote to make fun of, which is surprising considering how many really poorly written books are inexplicably fangirl’d these days. Writing chops can make or break a book and this felt shallow, flat, and cliche’d from the very start. Somewhere about the 4% mark, I began to realize that this was not going to be the book for me. ![]()
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