I decided to start my audiobook experience with this book. Audiobooks are not my favorite means to understand a story. Personally I need something to concentrate on and I would find myself staring off in the distance as I imagined the happens of the story. I found out that if I am really interested in the story I must physically read the book. If the story is something I am only reading for a guilty pleasure, something I don’t really need to focus on (i.e. smutty romance…), then I can listen via audiobooks.
Onto my evaluation of the story. I was hooked right away. Marie Lu weaves an excellent world. Her narrators, Adelina in particular, is an excellent story teller. Lu’s usage of figurative language flows and, like Adelina’s powers, creates images in the readers head. The characters are flawed both physically and in their character. All of the characters are motivated by ulterior motives or their own fears and ambitions. This made me invested in the characters, in Adelina and Taren’s skewered vision of the world. Adelina has fears and doubts just like everyone else. Her fear of what others think about her is something we all struggle with and that makes her relatable. The concept that Lu introduces in not really new, young adults have powers and the government wants to eradicate them, but her execution of that plot is wondrous and takes on a new spin. I am so excited to read the second book.
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