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Finished on 3/17/16
I actually really liked this! Once you get past the fact that the setting on Mars is completely tangential to the story (because Mars has been terraformed to the point that it could be any other planet, and all the author was really going for was a futuristic setting for a Hunger Games-like fantasy), then it was actually pretty fun. The key is to read it with the same expectations that you'd have for Hunger Games or a similar YA book (the same way that you'd watch a movie like Mission Impossible with entirely different expectations than you would an art house documentary and yet could thoroughly enjoy both for different reasons). Looking forward to arguing in favor of this book at my sci fi book club (since I know one of my friends already hated it). And I'll pick up the next one.
I actually really liked this! Once you get past the fact that the setting on Mars is completely tangential to the story (because Mars has been terraformed to the point that it could be any other planet, and all the author was really going for was a futuristic setting for a Hunger Games-like fantasy), then it was actually pretty fun. The key is to read it with the same expectations that you'd have for Hunger Games or a similar YA book (the same way that you'd watch a movie like Mission Impossible with entirely different expectations than you would an art house documentary and yet could thoroughly enjoy both for different reasons). Looking forward to arguing in favor of this book at my sci fi book club (since I know one of my friends already hated it). And I'll pick up the next one.
