He, of course, defended her and beat up the other kids, but his double standards are such that he admired her for not fighting back?! The romance with him would have been more believable if there was some actual development, but considering it is all silence glances in the start and very little conversation on her part, I\’m declaring this as insta-love and a case of I-need-human-touch-STAT.
Adam is this hero complex guy who liked Juliette when she was younger because she acted soooo good, lay down while other kids were tormenting her and stuff.
(It is not my imagination – there are literally scenes where the making out just happens, due to Circumstances That Just Need to Insert a Hot Makeout Scene) The world-building is sorely lacking in this book – there is barely an explanation given for how the Reestablishment came about, how it is all co-ordinated, how the resistance is not able to do any damage. AND I LIKE LOVE TRIANGLES! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?! Also, how in this messed up world where people don\’t have proper living conditions, is the romance the main conflict of the story? It is not even a dystopia-that-looks-like-a-utopia kind of plot that love triangles are usually featured in! The world is dying, there is a fascist government ruling over them, and the first thought of these teens is whether they can get some. No, what my main problem was with this book sticking its toe out of genre boundaries, is that it does it in the name of the most irritating love triangle. Bad boy with (probably) a heart of gold trope (We\’ll come to that LATER OH BOY). There\’s the childhood friend who is now a hottie trope.
But the \’new elements\’ in this weren\’t exactly new. Buckle your seat belts, darlings, because this one is going to be gif-fed up! Firstly, I gotta ask – WHY? Why the focus on the romance in a dystopia? I am not one for sticking to genre conventions – heck, I love when books subvert them and introduce some new elements. Honestly, this book takes the love triangle to a cringe-worthy level, and WAIT I KNOW YOU MAY HAVE LOVED THIS BOOK BUT I GOTTA GET MY FEELINGS OUT IN A RANT before I can even continue with what I actually liked. Maybe it was the time in which it released – the era of dystopias, but this is more like a romance set in a dystopic world than a true dystopia. This book made me question a lot of things – firstly, about why it is so hyped, and secondly, what are others seeing that I am missing out? I genuinely had to ask some of my friends what they thought of the book, because I saw so many high-rated reviews for it (not from my friends but others I follow on GR) and I mostly got \’eh I didn\’t like it much either\’ kind of answers.
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