The Measure

I feel like I've been duped. The premise of this book sounded infinitely more interesting than it actually was and the ratings I've seen for this book seem disproportionately high. I was bored for most of this. I had to force myself through and narrowly avoided a reading slump. I played through the entire trilogy of the Spyro games just to avoid reading this book... I love dystopian science fiction. It's in my top 5 favorite genres, but this was mostly sad and depressing. Ordinary people waiting for their deaths. There were way too many perspectives to follow and any one of them could have been swapped out and it would still be the same book. One of the characters talks about other dystopian books that I feel like the author tried to pull from, but this book doesn't stand up to The Hunger Games or The Handmaiden's Tale. Yes, there was an opressive government, but no overturnng of said government and we don't even find out where the boxes come from. I feel like I've read enough political fiction from actual disenfranchised groups that I'm just not interested in dystopian versions from non-disenfranchised groups anymore. Ugh. I'm sad because I really thought I would love this.