Review: Carve the Mark

Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I will start by saying I loved the Divergent series so assumed I would love this. A pretty good read but not super memorable book to me.

I think the problem this book faced was too much world building. The reader basically gets thrown into 100 pages of this fictional world description, which makes the book much too slow, and it was too much for me and left me mostly confused for a good portion of the book.

I wish they had introduced us slowly into the world. The story was a pretty good one when it finally all started to come together with lots of twists and turns. One thing I did enjoy about the story was Cyra the female lead wasn’t completely good and honorable. She had killed people, whether willingly or not she put her survival above others which is unusual for this type of book where the female lead is always some selfless heroine. I enjoyed the romance and I liked the unique situation that brought them both together.

Still, I’m excited to read the sequel to this so it was pretty good.


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