They weren’t unique enough, and they felt like the same narrator. WARNING: This review is not necessarily “spoiler-free.”įirst off, I have to talk about the thing that I hated the most about this: the first person perspectives. And I will concede that she does… something with her retelling. I’m also somewhat familiar with it, and I brushed up a little on it after reading Roth’s novella. I’m very aware that this is inspired by Antigone, a Greek play written by Sophocles around 441 B.C. I was genuinely excited to read it.Īlas, it fell short for me in several regards. And Arch-Conspirator sounded like the best of both worlds. I’m also a sucker for a well-written, post apocalyptic, science fiction story. I also wanted to read this because I wanted to read this. I’m not gonna lie part of the reason that I read this novella was to see if Veronica Roth grew at all as a writer in the past ten or so years. Everything felt empty and strange, like the world had ended and we had slept through it.
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