I'll read the next book in the series when it comes out - but I'm not at all "hooked" on the concept or the series yet. The end of the this book doesn't offer any closure though. Ordinary teenagers Whit and Wisty are taken from their house by representatives of the oppressive New Order. I think the series has some good potential to get better and to develop the characters further (and I hope they do). Patterson (the Maximum Ride books) and Charbonnet launch a new series about political and cultural oppression, which suffers from some questionable storytelling choices. Like some other reviewers I nearly stopped listening half-way through because I just wasn't getting into the story, I persisted and it did get better - but never to the level that I expect of a James Patterson novel. Some reviewers mentioned Harry Potter currents - which I really didn't find to be true - perhaps only because Harry Potter also uses the terms "witch and wizard"? In my opinion, that's about where the similarity ends. There are vibes of 1984 throughout the story - government of the people becomes a government against the people. The story line itself is slow - I didn't love the narration that added way too much teen-aged valley-girl inflection. Apparently this is the first book in a planned series.
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