Originally posted on Squirtoon's Bookish Blog  

How many books can I say I started at 10pm, and finished at 3am? Not that many. For that reason alone, it’s 5 stars. I value sleep like little else, but this made me forgo sleep to see what would happen next.

At first, when I first read about this, I was unimpressed. It seemed like every other YA, dystopian novel out there. How many books have the classes separated by something? Whether that be numbers, colours, looks or something else? It’s now a new concept. This was a breath of fresh air for this genre for me.

I was more invested in the characters than I’d care to admit. Darrow, Mustang and Servo were just great characters. If you don’t like Servo, then I think there’s probably something wrong with you. He was my favourite character because he wasn’t perfect like the other golds. He wasn’t traditionally handsome and tall, but boy was he smart.

To be honest, most of it I wouldn't class as YA. This is a quote from the first few chapters, and when I really started paying attention to this novel:

On Mars there is not much gravity. So you have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.

Like, bloodydamn, that’s terrible. Why have hanging as a method of death, if the act of hanging doesn’t even work? This was the first hint that this form of society had big problems, and the problems only grew more severe from there.

I definitely want to read on. Perhaps I won’t start the book at 10pm at night, so that I get some sleep the day I read it.

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