Top positive review
4.0 out of 5 starsStarted off really good
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2019
This book started out so promising. I love dystopian type novels and was really excited to read this one. The first 60-70% of the book was really, really good, in my opinion. I couldn’t put it down. The world that was created inside the Hole was different than anything that I had read before. The pages were action packed, disaster striking often forcing Cole and Lexie to work together to make sure they both lived. I loved it! But then it’s like the tone of Lexie changed in the last half of the book. Yeah, in the first half she was clumsy, and would cry often, which was expected because of the situation she was in, but you could also see her getting tougher, wanting to learn self-defense so she could take care of herself. In the last 30-40% of the book, it felt like everything single think made her cry. She would be tearing up or bawling her eyes out over the slightest thing: Cole looked at her wrong, Cole looked at her right, she missed her Dad, her Dad wanted her to be tough, she wanted to fight and be strong and yet curl up and just cry, Keegan was too tough on her, Keegan didn’t like Cole, etc. Every little thing at the end of the book made her cry. It got exhausting keeping up with her mood swings. I liked her character in the beginning, a lot, but I felt like the ending just didn’t do her personality justice. She got physically stronger, but emotionally, I feel like she went backwards.
The other part of the book that I didn’t like was her interaction with her brother, Keegan. The banter and conversations between them were just awkward to me. I feel like the author was trying so hard to make it seem like they had this great bond from childhood, but the conversations and interactions just didn’t fit for me.
Overall, I enjoyed the book. I just wish Lexie’s character as a whole hadn’t fallen flat at the end of the story. I'm still voting 4 stars because the first half of the book was that good.
