Nocturnal Book Reviews

You know what? I want to avoid bashing Acid, because a lot of you loved this book, so in my third attempt to review it I'll try to keep it short so it won't dissolve into a rant.

I felt disappointed in this book because Emma started as this strong young heroine who fights against all odds despite the improbability of succeeding in all male high security prison, but as soon as she is whisked away that drive goes out of the window.

Emma is impulsive and makes stupid mistakes throughout the whole book (the ending especially pissed me off). The resistance is, pardon me, slacking to a point where I just couldn't take it seriously.

Max, the romantic interest (because of course there has to be one!) is a constant damsel in distress that needs to be saved.

The Commander is a cackling villain, and I have no idea how this farce of a government was allowed to continue imposing its regime on England when all they've done is made the poor poorer and built a lot of walls around. They somehow managed to get rid of all books and wipe out the past and shut down the Internet, while the rest of the world continues as normal just across the Channel and is waiting to intervene.

There are some brilliant moments in world-building, but overall it's just meh. I look for inspiration in dystopias the likes of which I found in The Hunger Games, V for Vendetta and The Book of Eli, but I could not see it here unfortunately.