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This cleverly written book was a fast and interesting read. All right, it's not on par with some of it's contemporaries, but it IS written for a younger audience, so I was willing to overlook a few of it's weaknesses. In my opinion the strengths made up for them. Plus it's the first in the series, so I'm hoping some of the holes will be filled in later...
Likes: Well, I was drawn right in by a society that brands each member of it as either Wanted, Necessary, or Unwanted. The main character Alex is Unwanted and is being taken from his family and transported to his supposed death. It reminded me of The Giver, only even more cruel and unimaginable. It turns out the Unwanteds are actually taken to a wonderful fantasy land where they are free to indulge in all the behaviors that got them to be unwanted in the first place: creativity and emotions and thinking and being normal. I wish some of the emotional trauma of what it would have been like to be forced to live without love and compassion and friendship would have been better explored, but for the most part the kids seem pretty normal considering their experience. They are taught creative things like art and music and story telling, and taught how to use magic. The magic in this world can weaponize art and words if necessary. There are also numerous awesome magical creatures. There was an interesting plot and the pacing was good... I definitely wanted to know what would happen next. Character wise, I really liked Mr. Today although I didn't always understand all his motivations on not acting to stop the bad guys sooner.
Dislikes: ******Some possible minor SPOILERS below!!!
Some of the horribleness of the bad guys was just completely unbelievable to me. I can't believe that no one rebelled against never thinking, feeling, having emotion, or even dreams. It seems like there would be some sort of underground where parents cared for their children or something. That's a pretty hard emotion to just ignore or stamp out. Especially parents killing their children, that was awful and hard to believe. But ok, it's fine, it's a dystopian society. It was just weird that even the victims of that society did little if anything to protest the horror of it, even when they had nothing to lose. Also, I didn't understand why the leaders of Quill would care if the Unwanteds were killed or left to live in peace. Either way they were out of their society, so why did they want to kill everyone? And why did Justine stop using her magic? And how come the Unwanteds have magic but no one in Quill does? Or did they all have magic and no one told them? And what made Justine so evil, controlling, and vile? Her character has no depth, and neither does Aaron. I can't figure out why Aaron doesn't capitulate and join his brother at the end, after Justine threatens to kill him and after Alex sacrificed everything to save him even knowing he was a tattle-tale and a huge jerk. By his own admission he has nothing left in Quill but instead of changing he's just as malevolent as ever with no apparent motivation. And why was Mr. Today content to allow all the other people in Quill live such a horrible life?
Anyway, good book I'll be willing to read the next one.
A fun and Harmless adventure, Unwanteds follows Alex and Aaron Stow as they both realize that their world that they grew up in all their life is a lot bigger then they could have imagined...
The writing style of the book is, for someone like me who is a older reader and thusly not in the age range for this book, can be a bit quick; A plot element presented only to shoot back to a character developing some other part of the story and back again. If the author had decided to stay on one part of the story at a time, rather then give a kind of "Big Reveal" scenario at the end, it would have been more interesting to follow. As an older reader, I can say that older readers will figure out parts of the plot long before a character even has to say anything about it. But that's not saying that you'll hate the book, rather that it may seem a bit slower then what you may be used to. Younger readers will enjoy the interesting concepts of Art and Magic, but otherwise I can only guess that this books main lead up is to bring you back for more adventures in it's next parts. All in all, it's simple and sweet to read but I'd only really recommend this to older readers as something for in between larger books and to just enjoy the fun and colorful world that Lisa McMann has written for a younger audience.
I was excited about reading this book with my 9 year old daughter. Dystopian is my favorite genre and based on the description I thought this would be a good way to introduce it to her. Silly me. The only thing that was good about this book was the premise. The story line, the character development, the dialogue, the plot twists, everything else was terrible. It is painfully obvious the author was writing this in hopes of getting a movie deal. Faces protruding out of blackboards?? Scatterclips? Platyprots? The real killer was the squirrelicorn! The squirrelicorn made me want to put my head in the oven. To be fair, my 9 year old loved the book...so maybe your young child will too. I personally could not wait for it to be over and I am thinking about using the pages to get the grill going on the next nice day.
This book is recommended for ages 6-13 or something like that, and on the AR Reading site it says it has a reading level of 5.7 (Seven months into Fifth Grade). I am 22 and just bought a couple of copies for my fifth grade class that I aide for, but I personally LOVE this book and my reading level is much, much higher haha. I read 100 pages just on the authors website. It allows you to read an "excerpt" from the book to decide if you want to buy it, but really it's the first 99 pages. I read all 99 pages in one sitting without even realizing how much I read! I immediately bought it for my Amazon Kindle and continued reading that night. The only thing that bothers me, perhaps just because I notice these things, is that because it says "The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter." on the front, it annoys me that there is a character whose last named is Ranger and is referred to as Ms. Ranger. (Like Hermione Granger). Aside from that, the book stands on its own and I don't feel like it was copied from another book, except the general idea of the purge resembling the Reaping of the Hunger Games, only much more elaborate and drastic.
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