Review: A fresh take on the over-saturated dystopian genre!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 31, 2013
This review is courtesy of topoftheheapreviews(dot)comIn a world where genetic advancements mean only perfect children are born, what happens when it's discovered that you are an accident?  Check out the review from this new voice in the Young Adult Dystopian genre.Troop is less than he seems. Teachers love him. Colleges want him. Students revere him. There's even a hot girl after him. Life couldn't get any better than this, right? So, why doe she feel like he's a devil in disguise as an angel?Ever since The Hunger Games the dystopian young adult survival genre has exploded.  It happened so fast that the genre was quickly filled with with the same thing over and over again.  Little was done to separate one book from another.  Fortunately in the book Imperfect, Tina Chan creates a world that is not only different, but with recent advents in genetic technologies, very very plausible.So how does she do it?  Well for one, there is quite a bit of science involved.  Real science, not stuff just made up for the book.  It doesn't go into specifics so as not to go over the heads of the intended reader, but the research is there.  Next she creates a new United States that aren't so united anymore.  She hints at a second Civil War when the idea of making sure only perfect children could be born came out, a war which divided the country into four different regions.  Unlike a lot of other books, you don't get all of this information at once.  This information is dispersed when you need to know it through the dialogue of the characters, you don't feel so overwhelmed that you want to stop reading.The story revolves around four central, Accident, characters.  Kristi, Troop, Chelsa, and Finn.  The chapters are broken into who's perspective you are getting the story from, either Kristi or Troop.  In the beginning they will bounce back and forth more so you can get a back story on both Kristi and Troop.  The rest of the back story with Chelsa and Finn you will get as you go along.The characters are fleshed out enough that you care enough about them that you don't want anything to happen to them, but the traits aren't shoved down your throat.  The romantic interests are there, but again, it's more tension and expectation rather than forced.This book sets up much more to happen in this world, and I'm looking forward to the next installment in this series!The Bottom Line:  This is a fresh take on the genre, and it's a welcome change.  While the government being all powerful and divided into sections has been done to death, the genetic perfection adds a much more realistic view on a possible future.  The prose is sharp and intelligent, and it's easy enough for the target audience to understand while being accessible and not insulting the intelligence of adult readers.  The book comes highly recommended by me.