Review: Futuristic Novel, Interesting Collaboration
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 2, 2013
I'm so happy to be a part of the tour for The Experiment. I'm always intrigued by new ways of writing and these three authors have done something very interesting. They have each written their own parts through a character but have collaborated together with each other to bring together a very interesting novel. I think it's pretty cool.I really enjoyed this book. The plot was always forward moving and didn't drag at all. The characters were all distinct and definable. They are on a quest to save their parents and along the way they discover more than they ever thought possible. There is romance, adventure and intrigue all set in a futuristic other world but a world full of oppression and inequality which are things we all can relate to. The morphing thing was cool. I like how it all came down for the triplets and how they all worked together to understand and make the morphing work for them.This was a book that I wish actually had a sequel. I know, crazy, right? Usually I am so bothered by having to wait for a sequel but I'll tell you why I say that. The ending for me was just off. The Epilogue (five years after the end of the story) was long and honestly felt just out of sync with the rest of the book. I would much rather have had it end and then picked up with more of the in between in another book. I don't know. It felt less thought out and more thrown together. If I could get rid of the epilogue and just end the book with another book to come I would have been happier. BUT, I did really enjoy this book. It was a great read and I'll be handing this one off to my older teenage daughter.Content: a couple instances of mild swearing, a lot of nakedness. (morphing leads to naked and there was an awful lot of morphing, therefore, a lot of nakedness. And they say it over and over. It got a bit repetitive. Emiah seems to enjoy the nakedness more than anyone)*Just as a side note, my daughter read this book as well and said the EXACT same thing as I wrote in my review. She really liked it, did not like the ending (epilogue) and said that the talking about the naked stuff got old. We both found the same inconsistencies in the epilogue. I didn't even say anything to her at all about what I thought about the book.