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Couldn't put it down, despite having already watched the movie. Perfect amount of world-building, very interesting and dynamic world, cast of characters were individual and well-developed. Really liked Cinna, even better than the movies. Haymitch was also great, looking forward to learning more about him in the prequel.

Immersive, with an ending that was different and unexpected but that fit well with the storyline.

Great book, but I do agree with others about the tokenism of Jeri, a genderfluid character. The portrayal of Jeri likely did more harm than good if the author's intent was to positively introduce a new way of experiencing gender. A few well-written lines would have gone a lot further than multiple pages of why Jeri's gender changes (literally) with the weather.

But overall, just a really good story, the characters were deep and well-written, even more peripheral characters like Rand and Tyger. I would have liked to see Goddard's character given more depth (prequel maybe?). But the author really fleshed out an entire world.

This feels like an opinion piece on why we should keep secrets from our partners. She claims her views are feminist but it seems to just be a new type of misogyny, claiming women have power in how they are socialized to better communicate their feelings (true) and should give their male partners a pass and understand men express those same feelings in bed (yikes).

I appreciate a nontraditional take (hence 2 stars instead of 1), but the author seems to have her own deep-seated fear of intimacy coloring the pages and there is little to no evidence to back up her advice.

Ending was predictable but enjoyable nonetheless. The villain is a little too cartoonish and lacking in depth but that makes sense for YA.

It's a necessary book to push along the plot but it's far from a good read. A lot of boring travel chapters, too many characters, too little exposition. The first two books of the series were great reads, and I'll keep going with the next book to finish it off, but I wasn't impressed with this particular title.

Brilliant, dark, thought-provoking.

Slow-moving and trope-y but I like the universe. The characters are too one-dimensional, but the dystopian sci-fi setting is unique enough to make up for the less-than-unique characters.

Finally, we have the answer to the question we were all asking, what if Cinderella were a cyborg? I don't enjoy sci-fi, and this is very far from fantasy, but wow this is actually good? Meyer's plotlines are unique, really enjoying storylines that have never been done before.