Pulse

Well, at least I tried. I had initially gotten this book because I liked it's interesting premise. I thought that it would be full of action and suspense, but sadly, that has turned out to not be the case. This book is simply filled with unrealized potential that make it a forgettable read at best, and a worst a slog to get through.


Now, I should state that I have only gotten through about 51% of this book, but that is all I can handle. This book is just a series of disappointments, one after the other. One of the first places to start with this is the writing style. It is merely serviceable. It tries to get me in, but all I found were basic descriptions of characters, and the actions that they took. And when I say action, I don't mean riving action, like the book promises, I mean simple actions like, how a character took a shower, or walked to school. They are all told with a merely serviceable function, with little life to it whatsoever. This makes for dry reading at best.


This leads into the description of the characters. Their description is null at best. We essentially get a small paragraph's worth of an info dump on their description, and then that s it. But everything about them is so dull that I could not care about any of them. The dialogue is something that doesn't really stand out either. These characters we just written in so poorly that I could not help but get names and people mixed up, which, for me, happened often. I don't think I'll be remembering anyone from this book any time soon.


And this leads me into the world building. It is there, with this being a dystopian fiction, but with everything else written so poorly, I did not care enough to stick around and find out what it was all about. There are some politics with the Eastern States and the Western States of the former US, and our characters caught, literally, in the middle, but that is really it. I did not stick around to wait to have it explained to me what it all meant, and I don't think you should either.


Overall, this book felt like a waste. I was in over 50% and we haven't even gotten to the part about the main character and her super powers yet. All I've experienced so far is a petty high school drama, and that is not what I signed up for. For this reason, at 51%, I'm putting it on my Could-not-Finish shelf and giving it a two out of five. Now if you'll excuse me, I have what I assume, are better books to start reading.