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Arbitrate (2013)

by Megan Thomason(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1492958395 (ISBN13: 9781492958390)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

series

Daynight

review 1: **Spoilers**So when I started this book, I was upset. Really upset. What I thought was going to happen did not happen and I couldn't believe that the characters were making the choices they made. But now that I've finished the book I am just totally in love and everything makes perfect sense. I loved everything about Daynight, the love triangle, the warped society and the idea that there is an inverse world. Obviously in Daynight everyone roots for Ethan, and in Arbitrate I found myself trying desperately to hold onto the perfect image of him. I was so angry when he turned into a different person. I felt that is was very inconsistent with the character portrayed in Daynight...but then I had to remind myself. These are teenagers. I'm 22 and I don't pretend to have anything ... morein my life figured out. Kira is around 17, Blake is around that age too, Ethan and Jax are both around 20-21. These are just young people that were put through some seriously messed up things. I think it would be more unrealistic to have them come out Daynight completely unscathed. At first I felt annoyed with Kira in this book. But then I started to think about how I would handle all the things she was put through. I would have a mental breakdown too! And having been separated from Ethan for a year, it makes sense that they would grow apart. I read too many novels where the first guy they meet is "the one" and they automatically would risk their lives for each other in the name of "true love". I think this book has a major underlying meaning and message: "True love isn't always immediate. It takes time. You have to build trust and break down walls". That is really why I loved this book. The characters are so much more real than in other books!
review 2: Arbitrate gets an A for awesome! Although it has most of the same characters as daynight, the books are as different as day and night—both in characters changing and in new ideas. Even with the summary, at first I couldn’t remember some of the details. So I felt like I was missing something until I found out about and read clean slate complex. It gave me a much better grip on the characters Alexa and Joshua along with his parents who play important roles in arbitrate. Their motivations made a big difference to my feelings about their roles and their decisions, emphasis on the consequences.In arbitrate, it’s a year later than daynight. Kira’s babies have been born, Jax has been her protector during numerous close calls, and both Blake and Ethan are facing consequences of Kira's and their own decisions, all prodded by the SCI’s plotting for power. Arbitrate is all about decisions and consequences, mostly bad. Things are not going well except for evil. Foreshadowing the coming sacrifices, the religious symbolism is great. My favorite is the blood-red office of Dr. Christo at the Cross.Bonus for me, arbitrate focuses more on the action and mystery than on the romance. The latter certainly drives the plot, but there is less sensuality than in daynight, and I appreciate the shift. Still, these books are not for young teens due to the subject matter and violence, including rape and torture. The author’s new ideas take arbitrate and some characters to a higher level while others sink to new lows, and some fluctuate like people I know in real life, unable to make up their minds until almost too late. Then when the moment comes—boom! They decide. And everything changes.The clean slate complexes and the government’s evil machinations prove again that Megan Thomason has an excellent feel for dirty politics and intrigue patterned after the real world as well as great creativity throughout the SF/fantasy aspects of Earth and Theran society. There’s a lot of interaction between the two worlds in arbitrate, but almost any other details I could give would spoil the surprises. There are lots of those, lots of excitement, and a few things you’ll expect due to an obvious buildup. Before it’s over, you’ll want to cry and/or cheer regarding multiple characters’ choices and the deadly or life-giving consequences—sometimes both for the same person. I think I’d better I leave it at that—awesome! less

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