Review: Makes You Think About Humanity
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2014
This review had to be shortened to fit within Amazon's maximum word count. For the full review and more, please visit markedbybooks.blogspot.comWe all have that one "thing" that makes a book click with us. For some, it might be action and adventure, but for others, it might be romance and the fight for true love. Some people might be history fanatics and others might be feminists who believe in the power of the "weaker sex." This book has all of those qualities in abundance and even more of which there are too many to say.Hope's Rebellion has something about it, some spark, that makes a reader not want to put it down, not even when finished. What would you do if you lived in a world where you were taken away from your mother at the age of three, then sent to either be educated or to learn the trade of being a slave? What would you say to a world that picks who would get to give birth, who would work what job, and who would be part of the elite city guard? To a world where all is based on the color of your hair? This is the world Drexi, Rinna of the Gold, and Prelly live in.Drexi is made into a slave because of her black hair and is only saved by her quick wit and sharp reflexes. Rinna of the Gold is precisely that: Gold. One of three blondes in the world of Godenor, she is valued as a prize and her fate is decided as that of being a Mother, a woman chosen to give birth to the future generation, all because of her hair color. And Prelly, the shy, timid young girl who has nothing remarkable about her - until you see her eyes.The book is refreshing because it gives a person ample room to consider what will happen next, or if anything will happen at all. At first, it goes slowly. Characters are introduced, the plot is somewhat understood, and we are thrown into the everyday lives of three children who are under the rule of a world corrupt, even if they themselves don't yet see it. There are instances when we sympathize, laugh, and cry along with the three protagonists, and that was a major highlight for me.Something that set the book back a few notches for me, however, was the ending. It was too... quick for me. The beginning was slow, precise and detailed. But the end was slapped down in a "This happened, then that, BAM! Book over," sort of fashion.In general, however, the book is certainly enjoyable. Not something I would pick up one day from the library when I've plenty of other selections to choose from, but certainly something I'd re-read on a slow, hot day.Gabby