Flawed

By Cecelia Ahern

3/5

I am a big fan of dystopian fiction so I knew I was going to enjoy this book before I even started to read it. I also knew I would enjoy it because I am a big fan of Cecelia Ahern and Where Rainbows End (Love, Rosie) is one of my favourite books. I read this book in one sitting as the suspense made it pretty impossible to put down. The ending also left me highly anticipating the sequel, Perfect, which comes out next year.

Unfortunately, this book had a lot of things I didn’t like. Firstly, it threw you straight into the story with very little backstory and I actually found myself skipping back a few pages because I felt as if I’d missed pages. Despite this very fast-paced introduction, the story itself actually took place over a very small time period and again, I felt as if I must have missed pages. As it took place over such a small time period, there were many chapters about the same day or same moment which I felt was a bit excessive. For example, if I remember correctly, there were three chapters just on the bus and I understand that this was a pivotal moment in the book but the actual event took place in the third of these three chapters and I felt as though the others were a bit unnecessary.

Despite this, I am very much looking forward to the sequel and will be purchasing it shortly after it comes out.