Year One

The beginning of this book was amazing, and that's about it. I haven't read many dystopian books, and liked the few that I have, but this is a very stock urban fantasy novel disguising as a dystopian. The sudden shift from ‘plague' killing billions, how it effects people and how it starts to witches, fairies and elves is so jarring. Maybe, if I knew before hand it was going to be more like a fantasy novel my expectations would have been different. Instead it was disorientating discovering that 90% of it was very different from the set-up. Seriously, my copy's description had nothing about the fantasy element it was leaning more towards Sci-fi. Honestly, though I don't think I'd would have liked it much if I did before hand, would have just given it a 3. I found the writing style distracting and difficult to know who's talking at times. The main characters Jonah, Lana, Max and Arlys were very boring, bland characters. There were many other characters (good or evil) were just as bland and I already forgot about them all. I really liked the beginning and I'm disappointed it turned into a boring story with unrememberable characters.