![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Dark Parties by Sara Grant
Jan. 30th, 2012 10:33 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
Every tiny act of defiance adds up. Maybe this one snowflake can start an avalanche.
Neva keeps a list of The Missing – people like her grandmother who have vanished. The people that everyone else pretends never existed.
In a world isolated by the Protectosphere – a dome which protects, but also imprisons – Neva and her friends dream of freedom.
But a forbidden party leads to complications. Suddenly, Neva’s falling for her best friend’s boyfriend, uncovering secrets and lies that threaten to destroy her world – and learning the truth about what happens to The Missing …
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Sara Grant’s debut YA novel is an interesting standalone dystopia with vivid world building and told via an excellent first person voice. The style is more literary than some other YA dystopias out there and Grant has some wonderful turns of phrase. However I found the plot too contrived at times and rather rushed in the final quarter and didn’t really buy into the central relationship between Neva and Braydon although I do very much look forward to reading Sara Grant’s next book and think that she will become an author to watch.
Neva keeps a list of The Missing – people like her grandmother who have vanished. The people that everyone else pretends never existed.
In a world isolated by the Protectosphere – a dome which protects, but also imprisons – Neva and her friends dream of freedom.
But a forbidden party leads to complications. Suddenly, Neva’s falling for her best friend’s boyfriend, uncovering secrets and lies that threaten to destroy her world – and learning the truth about what happens to The Missing …
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Sara Grant’s debut YA novel is an interesting standalone dystopia with vivid world building and told via an excellent first person voice. The style is more literary than some other YA dystopias out there and Grant has some wonderful turns of phrase. However I found the plot too contrived at times and rather rushed in the final quarter and didn’t really buy into the central relationship between Neva and Braydon although I do very much look forward to reading Sara Grant’s next book and think that she will become an author to watch.
