Dream Shatter

I really wanted to like this one, but it just left too many questions unanswered and took the easy/predictable way too often.

I think it's a cheap trick of the author to say “we'll test you during your regular day” and then never say what the tests were.

I thought the overarching dilemma was too one-sided. Of course Logan will make the choices that he did, because his parents' side is never presented as being the right/attractive one. When one side is lying and evil and the other side is misunderstood and noble, there's not much conflict left for a decision.

The chronology was confusing. “We only have a week of school left,” but then they keep going to school and going to school and going to school...

Frankly, Reina is a pain. It's not enough that Logan, new to the whole situation, is doing the right thing, but he has to do it “for the right reasons.” eye roll Give him time, chica! And then abandoning him to the police was cruel.

Every obstacle was overcome so easily, except Jonas. And I'm pretty sure I know what happened to him...

And seriously, hiding in the open because “they won't expect it” is not intelligent. Expected or not, if someone sees them, they're discovered.

And so many questions... If the chipped people are being tracked by their chips, how are the unchipped people tracked? If they can be tracked even without a chip, then why doesn't the army already wipe them out? How can Reina hide her blip from other people, and why does she let Logan see it? Or what allows Logan to see it when other people can't? How can Reina tell what all the stolen medicines are without a label? I mean, have you ever TRIED to identify all the different meds when your elderly parent drops them on the floor?? If Anyone can't even afford food and meds, how did they get a rocket launcher? And then there are questions that might be answered in the next book but really should have been answered here. Like, who keeps waking up Logan??