Wildcard (Warcross, #2)

by Marie Lu

[Kat @ Novels & Waffles]

I wasn't particularly in love with Warcross, but I liked it enough to pick up the second book. I thought maybe Wildcard might turn things around for me – but the result was the same as the first installment. It was a vanilla ice-cream sort of book: Nobody is going to say no to a big bowl of vanilla ice-cream, but it’s probably not going to be anybody’s first choice for a desert either. Similarly, this book was good but not great. Enjoyable, but not particularly memorable.

The things I liked:
-Emika's RAINBOW HAIR. I will never stop shouting about this
-That it was set in Japan (though sometimes the authenticity was questionable)
-There were no clear-cut "good" or "bad" guys. The bad guys sometimes did good things and the good guys sometimes did bad things. Marie Lu is the QUEEN of morally grey characters and I love it. She explored these same sort of themes (but more successfully, in my opinion) in her series The Young Elites, which is one of my recent favorites.

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