Published by: Gallery Books, March 10th 2015
Genre: Adult, Dystopia, Post-Apocalptic
Pages: 284
Format: Ebook
The Hunger Games meets Cormac McCarthy's The Road in this richly imagined first novel in a new postapocalyptic trilogy by award-winning poet Francesca Haig.
Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that laid waste to civilization and nature. Though the radiation fallout has ended, for some unknowable reason every person is born with a twin. Of each pair one is an Alpha - physically perfect in every way - and the other an Omega burdened with deformity, small or large.
With the Council ruling an apartheid-like society, Omegas are branded and ostracized while the Alphas have gathered the world's sparse resources for themselves. Though proclaiming their superiority, for all their effort Alphas cannot escape one harsh fact: Whenever one twin dies, so does the other. Cass is a rare Omega, one burdened with psychic foresight. While her twin, Zach, gains power on the Alpha Council, she dares to dream the most dangerous dream of all: equality. For daring to envision a world in which Alphas and Omegas live side by side as equals, both the Council and the Resistance have her in their sights.
I've been reading this book a full week. I'm at 50%. And I swear nothing has happened yet. There was a slight burst of plot when the main character rescued a guy from a tank in a laboratory, and while that sounds pretty exciting and cool (it was!) NOTHING ELSE HAS HAPPENED. They've walked, and walked, and stopped for a bit in a town where they made food and sat around and did nothing then started walking again. I'm halfway through the book and literally nothing is happening, so I don't see the point of continuing. I could carry on reading and all the plot might happen in the next 10%. Or I could read until the end and still nothing will have happened. There's a bit of hinting about a rebellion, but that's non-existent at this point. The dystopia of it all has essentially dropped off. It's become just everyday life and walking, which is not something I want to read about.
Slow and bland, and I didn't like how the "bad" and "infected" twins were all disabled. Way to be insulting.
(Sidenote: WHAT IS WITH THE UK COVER? Because of that I thought this was early YA, almost middle grade???????? The cover is so juvenile, not adult at all.)
DNF at 50%
Ugh slow books are the absolute worst. I usually know if I can put a book down for 2-3 days that it's not gonna work out for me. At least you made it half way, no one can say you didn't try!
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