Dare Mighty Things by Heather Kaczynski

Dare Mighty Things (Dare Mighty Things, #1)

by Heather Kaczynski

The Selection meets The 5th Wave in this heart-racing debut duology about a girl competing for a spot on a mysterious mission to the outer reaches of space.

THE RULES ARE SIMPLE: You must be gifted. You must be younger than twenty-five. You must be willing to accept the dangers that you will face if you win.

Eighteen-year-old Cassandra Gupta’s entire life has been leading up to this—the opportunity to travel to space. But to secure a spot on this classified mission, she must first compete against the best and brightest people on the planet. People who are as...

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4 of 5 stars

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Dare Mighty Things is kind of a tricky book to review. On the one hand it was a really interesting story:


  • - A classified space mission.

  • - Young adults in training/competition for said mission.

  • - Diverse characters that really stood out from each other. This was one of the big highlights of the book.



On the other hand, it wasn’t a perfect book. For starters, there was A LOT of the training/testing part—perhaps a tad too much. It’s pretty much the whole book. The whole story is building up to one thing that doesn’t happen until the last few pages. So it’s a lot of waiting.

Also, the ending was oddly a let-down for me. There was a big reveal/cliffhanger, but it was just pure words. There was no intense action if you know what I mean. I think it was just missing an X factor to bump it from “good” to “amazing”.

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Reading updates

  • 28 May, 2017: Started reading
  • 31 May, 2017: Finished reading
  • 1 June, 2017: Reviewed