justjaqueline's reviews
617 reviews

Funny, cute and quirky. I am not a romance girlie so I got bored three quarters through, but it is not the book's fault, obviously.

I need another twenty of these. These characters were so alive, they have to be based on people the author knows. I want to know what happens next!
What a book.

I was going back and forth with my rating simply because I loved Kindred so much I felt this didn't hit quite the same, but it is a perfect book, it is a perfect dystopia.
We're thrown in a world that's on the brink of collapse. Everything is falling apart and people live how they can manage to, some of them more fortunate than others.
We follow Lauren, a girl, almost eighteen, who was born with a condition called 'hyperempathy' so she can share the pain and pleasure of other people. Considering the world she's in, that seems like a curse.
We start with change, because everything changes or nothing ever will ("God is change", Lauren tell us, and what is that if not the enoxarable truth): the gated community in which she lives is attacked and she has to go, she has to find a new home, and us along with her. We're carried in Lauren's pack, among the seeds and food and gun, in this world in which there is so much brutality, so much violence and yet, we can't help to hope: for a better future, for community, for love.
Along this dangerous journey we gradually meet people, we feel for them; we're the hyper part of Lauren's empathy, echoing the sorrows and joys of everyone around her. Lauren has to choose between the safety of numbers and the safety of trusting noone at all.
Keep them, we whisper, when she's on the fence about someone, please keep them and plant them and let them grow.  
 There will be thorns, there will be drought, there will be birds to take us away, but some of us, in this world that wants us destroyed and alone, will prevail. Love will prevail.
We are heartseed, after all.

I was bored for half of it. It's a pity, because the beginning and end were so interesting! Elphaba is such an intricate and flawed protagonist, I really liked following her and seeing just what made her "wicked". All the political themes were also interesting, but explored in such a way that made them tedious, after a while. I really hoped I would like it more.

🎶 I will fall in love with you over and over again, I don't care how, where, or when, no matter how long it's been, you're mine 🎶

I read half of this and realized I could not care less. The sections of the book are interesting, but the overall story just didn't grip me.