Saturday, November 27, 2010

XVI by Julia Karr

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I liked it but felt like it was just short of being really good or great. I always felt there was something missing. That it could have been that much more exciting.

**Spoiler Alert**

Nina's mother tell her something on her deathbed and she immediately goes off and tells her grandparents as well as friends, old and new. He mother's been keeping this secret for 16 years. Being brutalized by a man who's looking for answers, and Nina tells 7 people in a matter of days.

Sandy is a self involved airhead and Nina giving her any information into their plans and what they are doing was ludicrous. All the girl can think or talk about is being part of the FeLS. Knowing that Ed beat Nina's mother and is threatening her, Sandy still asks Nina to help her with Ed and being Chosen. So when Nina tells Sandy what's going on with the book, I'm flabbergasted. Knowing she has no filter and says whatever is at the top of her head just make me think the author is trying to push the story along.

I understand that Nina's mother was undercover for all those years, but being beaten by a man and your daughter seeing the results. What could be worth that? I understand they were trying to show a government run conspiracy, but the author never lets you know if all of it paid off. Yes, Nina knows the truth, but we never know if her father got the information, how it was used or if it even changed anything.

The only reason I say it was okay is because there was a cornel of a good idea there. I kept expecting more, but it just didn't deliver.



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