Dialogue and more dialogue and more more more talking. I suppose, aside from lack of action, my other problem was the replacing of action with dialogue. Sorry, but there it is-my glaring problem with the story. Because when it came down to it, not that much happened. I kinda thought that was the whole point of their society? If you are deceptive, there is punishment or pain….yeah? Clearly I went in with my eyes wide open and I really needed to…close them a bit. There was deception, which I loved, but then hardly any action to follow these new found errors in people’s demeanor.

When I see someone say they were on the edge of their seat the entire time I guess I envisioned a ton of action and peril and fighting aaaaaannddd….that was minimal, at best. Now, see, call me stupid (again), but I really, really trusted the reviews. The end? Finally what I’d been waiting for. The middle of the story? Began to lose interest– quickly. The secret she was hiding in a horrible society? Loved. It went a little something like this: The beginning- Loved. The thing is, it’s quite unfortunate that I wasn’t more enthralled with the story. I thought it was also revealed in victory. There was a saying that a man’s true character was revealed in defeat. It’s come to that time where I’m reading a wide array of books and different genres and the lines are starting to blur-I’ve had to start rating (not always) more harshly and, unfortunately, this book has fallen into this current time period where I’m done sugar coating my ratings. Okay….it so doesn’t feel right to give this such a low rating when I loved the beginning and really liked the end but….why push up a rating when I don’t even know what to say? I can’t hide behind a three or four every time I have trouble deciding what to rate something. “No one can ever truly know what is in another man’s heart.”

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