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A review by emilyusuallyreading
Perfect Ruin by Lauren DeStefano
5.0
What I Liked
This was amazing. I have a thing for dystopia, young adult or otherwise, and usually they fall pretty flat. But not this one. Perfect Ruin is a Perfect Dystopian Novel and I am dying to jump to the next story in the series.
I love the characterization here. Morgan is an amazing voice, Basil is incredible, I'm obsessed with Pen, Amy, and Judas, and even the lesser characters like Alice and Lex and Thomas and so on are intriguing and likable, and amazing. The characterization of this novel in itself left me hooked.
The world is somehow believable. Okay, obviously a floating city is not believable, but for a fantasy dystopian, it is. DeStefano makes it work, and Internment is made out to be beautiful and slightly horrifying at the same time. The Utopia/Dystopia environment is not cliche. It works. And even the queue for babies, the betrothals since birth, the idea of jumpers - all of it worked for me and left me absolutely haunted.
By the end of this book, I was left dying for more.
What I Didn't Like
The last third of this book seemed a little rushed and a little less planned. Fantastical became somewhat nonsensical.
A few plot points also fell flat to me.
But overall, I loved this. I am dying to know what happens.
This was amazing. I have a thing for dystopia, young adult or otherwise, and usually they fall pretty flat. But not this one. Perfect Ruin is a Perfect Dystopian Novel and I am dying to jump to the next story in the series.
I love the characterization here. Morgan is an amazing voice, Basil is incredible, I'm obsessed with Pen, Amy, and Judas, and even the lesser characters like Alice and Lex and Thomas and so on are intriguing and likable, and amazing. The characterization of this novel in itself left me hooked.
The world is somehow believable. Okay, obviously a floating city is not believable, but for a fantasy dystopian, it is. DeStefano makes it work, and Internment is made out to be beautiful and slightly horrifying at the same time. The Utopia/Dystopia environment is not cliche. It works. And even the queue for babies, the betrothals since birth, the idea of jumpers - all of it worked for me and left me absolutely haunted.
By the end of this book, I was left dying for more.
What I Didn't Like
The last third of this book seemed a little rushed and a little less planned. Fantastical became somewhat nonsensical.
Spoiler
For example, the royal children randomly showing up near the end of Perfect Ruin, kidnapping Pen and Morgan, and being insane... what was that about? What is the purpose of Celeste in this... at all?A few plot points also fell flat to me.
Spoiler
The giant mechanical bird was out there, even for dystopian fantasy. The clock tower where the royal children have been locked away for all of their lives. A maniacal king who lives in the clock tower and has people killed at the drop of the hat without anyone suspecting it's him, meh...But overall, I loved this. I am dying to know what happens