In a world where Thinkers control the population and Rules are not meant to be broken, fifteen-year-old Violet Schoenfeld must make a choice to control or be controlled after learning truths about her "dead" sister and "missing" father.
What bothered me was the complete lack of clarity. The narrative was from Vi’s point of view, yet there were times it seemed to shift to Jag’s. There was no warning, no indication, no nothing. There was no header, change in font or in the very least a lead-in. It was only a couple of pages later that it turned out that Vi had invaded Jag’s dreams. Prior to that there was no indication that she even had that capability. It greatly annoyed me that the narration continued in first-person as though his thoughts were actually her thoughts. Perhaps that was supposed to be a literary device to show just how much her thoughts were consumed by his. I didn’t care for it. Yes, I appreciate it when authors believe in the readers’ intelligence but I highly doubt anyone would have been insulted if his dreams had been italicized.
At first I wanted to hurl the book in one corner, give it a single star rating, and then forget about it. But I managed to reach the 180th page with THE twist of the story and that made me finish reading the book just to know what would happen. I figured making me want to read more warrants a second star. But the ending made me wanna go into another fit of rage but this is the first book of a trilogy, so I suppose the not so desirable ending was necessary to give reason for the subsequent two books. I doubt I’ll stick around to find out what happens after this though.
