![]() ![]() It felt oddly slow at first even though lots of things are happening. This is one of those books that takes a while to get into. And there was just a little dash of Divergent and The Maze Runner. There are machines that remind me a little of War of The Worlds. The start of the book really reminded of the movie Minority Report with Tom Cruise. One thing I noticed about this book was the little things that made me think of me of other science fiction novels (in an interesting and not copy-cat way). If she fails, she will be shipped off to a prison island. The Forsaken is about an orphan girl who has to pass a test like everyone at her age that determines if she is prone to crime. But Alenna can’t help but stand out when she fails a test that all sixteen-year-olds have to take: The test says she has a high capacity for brutal violence, and so she is sent to The Wheel, an island where all would-be criminals end up. (the super-country that was once Mexico, the U.S., and Canada), Alenna learned at an early age to blend in and be quiet-having your parents taken by the police will do that to a girl. ![]()
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