Review: Another Serial Lacking a Satisfying Conclusion
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2014
Lush was a young adult dystopian aimed at the younger end of the market. It features a very well thought out future society, focusing on the story from the perspective of a teenage girl, Bluebell. At first the society seems unrealistically naive and pacifistic, but all makes sense as the book continues. Bluebell is plagued by nightmares, which are one of a number of bread-crumb like clues dropped along the way for us to follow. I worked out the mystery to be revealed well in advance, but still thought the journey to get there was well done.I found the novel to be very slow going, it was not until around the 35% mark that anything dramatic actually happened. And the ending revealed the book to be yet another serial - it was not really an ending at all, but revealed the book to be merely part one of a series that goes nowhere unless you immediately buy the next book to find out where it is going. My personal opinion is that books should be complete entities of themselves, with satisfying conclusions - part of a series, sure, but not serials designed simply to make you read the next one. And on that score, I did not buy the next one.