Debora Souza

It was OK... I didn't absolutely hate it, and I think it could've been way better without all the teen romance drama, but it wasn't the worst thing I've ever read.

I felt the characters lacked true feelings and some things were just there to further the plot. I don't like how it made it seem like being genetically altered made you into a brainwashed zombie. The fact that Zoe doesn't like the investigator and he turns out to be a bad guy just out of him questioning her is way too abrupt. So is the fact that she finds a piece of paper with some word in it and then just happens to see someone with that name on TV right after and that someone turns out to be involved. There are millions of people around, and there was no reason for her brother to even have that paper with nothing on it. Also, it doesn't make sense that she doesn't mourn more and try more to convince her boyfriend to help her. Or that she doesn't set out to spy on him. Or that she doesn't simply ask Noah in the first place to help her out of money. It would have made things much easier and quicker.
Many of the things they do are hard to believe and if her parents or the authorities had been truly concerned, they would have stopped them.

But more than anything what bothers me is the romance. She starts to gradually find Noah more and more attractive, but is always comparing him to her perfect boyfriend. She has no feeling of guilt to be cheating on the boyfriend, and when she finally gets to be with Noah, she keeps questioning his love for her just because he doesn't call.

Worst of all is the ending. I can take the kidnapping, the memory returning once the medication wears off, her accepting the situation. What I can't take is ex-BF finding them, and now being a cyborg (in just a few days) and having an abrupt and absurd justification for both finding and taking so long to find them. And, worst of all, how easy it was for them to just walk away after calling the meds on him. She'd just shot him and she's been looked for! They should have run as soon as ex-BF hit the ground, not stood around to see him safely taken to the hospital so he could tell on them and track them again!

Meh...
I did expect more, I expected a totally different ending, and I'm not sure I liked the one I got.

It was ok...
I didn't really connect to Eydis, I was always hoping she'd use more of her powers, and we don't get much background from her or much description to know her personality or why she acts the way she does. She comes out very bossy out of nowhere. And I don't get where she learned how to fight.
The others are ok. I did predict the thing about the fall at the end.
Not sure I want to read further.

Gostei bastante do livro.
A história demora um pouco pra pegar, o começo é um pouco parado e só faz não querer largar o livro depois que começa a ação fora do casarão em São Paulo.
Foi muito gostoso ver cenas acontecendo em ruas e lugares que frequento todos os dias, e poder imaginar as cenas com detalhes.
Apesar de me incomodar o fato de um menino de 12 anos que não consegue nem chutar uma bola no chão de repente conseguir lutar contra monstros e sair quase sem nenhum machucado, ignorando esse fato a história é interessante, emocionante e envolvente.
Gostei bastante dos personagens, apesar de ter descoberto todos os segredos antes do tempo, mas não sou exatamente o público alvo.
Gostei especialmente do fechamento, que deixa abertura para uma continuação mas não aquela sensação de precisar ler o próximo volume imediatamente.
Provavelmente vou ler a sequência. Foi muito bom poder ler fantasia com personagens nacionais, pra variar.

I hate that this book was in Audible's Fantasy list included with the Premium Plus subscription and that just by looking over the names of books on the list I didn't see right away that this was book 24 (!!) in the series.
It was just halfway through the book that I went and looked into it's page in more detail and realized this.
That being said, the book did a great job of getting me to know and understand the world in a short time so I didn't feel as lost as I probably should have. Worldbuilding was explained very quickly but very effectively in the very beggining.
Apart from that, though, it suffered from me not being into the universe, and the reading was a bit difficult to keep up with at times.
I'm sure I would've enjoyed it better if I had read the previous 23....