Review: Pretties
EricMesa
- One minute read - 142 words
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is the middle book of a trilogy (I think….maybe a quadrilogy? Because there’s another book called Extras). Therefore, not much happens narratively. I think it continues to have pretty good metaphors for teen life revealed via this dystopia, but it was slightly disappointing to not really move forward very much compared to the first book. In fact, it takes the entire book to do what they planned at the end of the first book. Like the middle book in a trilogy, there is a lot of fleshing out of the world, and that’s neat.
Some of the SF also goes a bit wonky for narrative reasons. Explaining it to the wife revealed how silly it can sound.
Anyway, it’ll be interesting to see where this thing goes.