REVIEW: Schism By Britt Holewinski {4 Stars}

REVIEW: Schism By Britt Holewinski

Series: It is going to be a trilogy!

Published By: Delirious Pixie

Genres: Dystopian, Young Adult

Format: Paperback

Pages:  264 pages

Release Date: March 15, 2016
RATING: 4 STARS

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Synopsis from Goodreads:
"Schism" is the first book in a new dystopian trilogy that tells a tale of survival, of good versus evil, and of constructing a future with only memories of childhood.

A government-created virus is accidentally released before testing is complete and within weeks it kills six billion people, children are the only survivors. Andy Christensen and her two friends travel across the country searching for a safe place to live, but nowhere, it seems, is capable of resurrection

         The moment I opened this book and started reading, I was hooked. The entire story is so thrilling and compelling to the point that I never honestly wanted to put it down. The point of view in this book is third person which I am not very used to. I feel like it is very rare in Young Adult books, or it's just the ones I am reading. At first I wasn't so sure about it, but I ended getting used to it and didn't mind. One thing I really like about Schism is that it didn't dwell forever on useless or unimportant things, and right from the beginning it got to the point. Which, I absolutely love by the way. One other thing that really stuck out to me in this book was how well Britt Holewinski made this feel like it was actually happening. It all felt so real! From how the characters conversed between each other to how the entire world building felt like it wasn't fiction. It was amazing, and it blew my mind! I have never really experienced that with a book to that extent, and I loved every second of it (as I may or not have already mentioned). ;D

        Before I read this book, I had read a couple of reviews about this book to just see others opinions on the book, and there was one common complaint that I had come across. That was that it was apparently unrealistic on how at that young of a age (around 13-18)were that smart and how much the children know about certain things. The characters in this book are extremely smart by the way. This book takes place after a virus had broke out that pretty much killed anybody except for those who were under thirteen. The three main characters, when they aren't fighting for survival, are reading and building up their knowledge. In my opinion, I don't think it is unrealistic at all about how much information the children had obtained and learned over the years. I think people forget that children are like sponges and that they soak up all the information that surrounds them. They learn stuff from their surroundings, and as explained from the book, some of the characters had learnt certain things because their parents would do stuff related to their career around them. The kids picked up from what their parents had shown them. So yeah, in my opinion, not unrealistic at all! 

        Overall, I loved this book! I really look forward to what will happen next! My rating or this book is 4 Stars out of 5! I totally recommend you all to check this one out! It's awesome!

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REVIEW: In The Afterlight By Alexandra Bracken

REVIEW: In The Afterlight By Alexandra Bracken

Series: Darkest Minds

Published By: Disney-Hyperion

Genres: Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction,

Romance, and Post-Apocalyptic

Pages: 535 pages

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Synopsis (from Goodreads)

     Ruby can't look back. Fractured by an unbearable loss, she and the kids who survived the government's attack on Los Angeles travel north to regroup. With them is a prisoner: Clancy Gray, son of the president, and one of the few people Ruby has encountered with abilities like hers. Only Ruby has any power over him, and just one slip could lead to Clancy wreaking havoc on their minds.

           They are armed only with a volatile secret: proof of a government conspiracy to cover up the real cause of IAAN, the disease that has killed most of America's children and left Ruby and others like her with powers the government will kill to keep contained. But internal strife may destroy their only chance to free the "rehabilitation camps" housing thousands of other Psi kids.

           Meanwhile, reunited with Liam, the boy she would-and did-sacrifice everything for to keep alive, Ruby must face the painful repercussions of having tampered with his memories of her. She turns to Cole, his older brother, to provide the intense training she knows she will need to take down Gray and the government. But Cole has demons of his own, and one fatal mistake may be the spark that sets the world on fire.

MY THOUGHTS

           First of all, I would just like to say that I am extremely happy with how this series ended. I loved the Darkest Minds, but I honestly hated the second one, Never Fade. It was very slow and was just overall a boring read. So after I finished Never Fade, I was pretty much 99% sure that I wasn't going to finish this series. As time went on and the memories of plot kind of disappeared, I became more sure of it. However,  I decided that in 2016, I was going to pick up the series I never finished and try to finish them. Which I'm freaking glad that I did.

             The story picks up after Never Fade: Ruby, her friends, and a few others are finally searching for The Ranch. Cole, Liam's brother, and Ruby with the help of others start to plan how to free the children locked in the horrendous Camps. They have only weeks to come up with a plan, finding any source of help they can find, and alert the world about what is really going on up in that place because it sure as heck not what the world was thinking was going on in there. They also face other problems along the way, and have to figure out how to deal or cope with it
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           In the Afterlight was honestly a little slow in the beginning. Even though it was a little slow, 30 pages in and I was already hooked. It was sooo good! Literally nothing big happened in the first 250 pages. Nothing. Zilch. Nada. But, it was still interesting and I didn't want to put it down. That's how freaking awesome Alexandra Bracken is! She puts so much detail into the story to make it feel like it is actually playing out before your eyes. Like I said, she's freaking awesome.

This was a great ending to the series. If you are wondering about whether you should finish the series or not then I recommend that you should definitely continue the series. I can't get over how good it was. I'm sooo happy! Anyways, thanks for reading! What did you think of this book?



This book was also part of my 2016 Finishing the Series Reading Challenge

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RATING: 4 STARS