Pawn by Aimee Carter

 

     I have to admit, I wasn’t the biggest fan of her Goddess Test series, which made me kind of iffy about reading this one. See, I’m not a huge fan of dystopians either. But then I saw so many people talking about how much they loved this one and that it wasn’t their typical dystopian, I knew I wanted to give it a try. And I have to say, I rather enjoyed this one.
     The plot in this one feels like your typical dystopian, but I haven’t read that many to actually be like, “Oh I’m so tired of the same thing.” It had a fresh twist with the Masking thing and all the twists and turns made the read go by fast. And by twists and turns, I mean some that will leave you with your mouth hanging open.
     My problem with The Goddess Test was I wasn’t really feeling the writing style. (In my defense, it was before I started blogging…) But this one was the complete opposite. It flowed nicely and never once left me confused or thinking, “What?”
     What I didn’t like about it though, was the fact that there was 100% no world building. I’m a huge fan of world building because I like to let the author’s words help me make up a picture of their world in my head. Especially in a dystopian when the world is completely up to the author. I was very unimpressed with this dystopian’s world, because we aren’t even informed how the world got that way. Just around what time it happened. I’m sorry, I like to know back story.
     As for the characters, they were ok….. Kitty Doe wasn’t the kick ass heroine I expected when reading a dystopian. She was very un-trusting but it made her really awkward. And as for the “love triangle,” I knew the point of it was the drive the plot, but I didn’t really care for either one of them. Both boys were just meh. Neither one of them just gave me enough “umph” to care about them.
     In short, I enjoyed this more than I thought. I’m not sure that it lived up to all of it’s hype, but it did end up at least being an enjoyable read.