Review: The Unwanteds

The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

(2.5 Stars) If you take all the boring parts of Harry Potter and compile it into a book it would be the Unwanteds.

I'm sorry that's so mean but it's true. The book wasn't bad by any sorts but it just lacked a lot.

Granted this book is too kiddy for me but still.

Also it reminded me too much of the Divergent series with it's politics on the higher up creative people or smart people and then you have the rejects/Unwanted's. It had a very similar political plot to it that I never enjoyed even in the Divergent series.

I don't like how they put creative people on a pedestal and the smart rational people as lesser beings. They're both good and needed in a society but one's no better than the other.

The writing also lacked a lot, I barely even knew what characters looked like.

I won't be continuing this series.

sort of spoiler, but not really because it's at the very beginning:
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In the beginning it didn't feel realistic that there's a bus full of kids heading into death row and no one's freaking out. Some are tearing up but come on... even though the whole death row thing is normal to the community it's still terrifying and there would be a fight or flight response. So right off the bat I was kinda off put. Another thing unrealistic was how Alex missed his twin so much and Aaron didn't really miss him... their twins, they would totally miss eachother.
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