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The most recent novel Rebellion - which is the fourth in the series - sees the continuing to survive on Earth as they content with a group known as the Protectors, whom they have to overcome. In contrast, the season five finale saw Earth destroyed for good by the villainous and maniacal McCreary played by William Miller launching a nuclear bomb on the Shadow Valley. Once away from the Earth, they all went into a cryo-stasis with Clarke and Bellamy awakening years later to find out that their ship was heading to a new planet and continuing the human race.

The final scene saw the couple holding each other as they gazed out at their new home complete with two suns before the scene cut to black and the caption appeared on the screen reading: Season six will mark a new era for the show and see the characters leaving behind a decimated Earth once and for all as they try to build a new life on an alien planet. The characters are likely to be meeting new friends and foes as well as continuing to deal with tensions and divisions within.

The season 5 finale was a game-changer Image: How do The books differ from the TV series? The season 6 is currently in production. The season 5, episode 12 promo: What will happen next in Damocles? The season 5, episode 13 release date: The idea is so new and unique its perfectly plotted and the characters are well developed and not TSTL.

Clarke is strong and badass, Bellamy is The chemistry between them is so adorable. I liked Wells too. And the tv show is soo good! Jun 05, Giselle rated it liked it Shelves: With a fantastic premise and an overall interesting plot, I can see why The has already been signed on by CW as a TV series. If only it was tightened up with better character development and a stronger dedication to world building instead of establishing the romantic angle, it could have been a real page turner. Nevertheless, it's interesting enough to warrant a read.

I believe its success will lay in the TV series, however. After only a brief introduction, we embark on this unnerving trip to a now foreign planet. While I enjoyed this quick drop into the big picture, I was left feeling like I'd missed the chance to get to know these people beforehand. We do get flashbacks throughout the book, which I first assumed would give us insight into the world and its characters, but it merely expands the romance with nothing but minor glimpses at the happenings inside the ship.

Consequently, The left me with endless questions from the events that led to life on this ship, to how life has been sustained for three centuries, to how they have evolved and adapted, especially technologically speaking. I find it hard to believe they haven't been able to use satellites or other technology to keep track of Earth's condition to some extent. Furthermore, when they get to earth, aside from it being regrettably unexciting for a while, I was unconvinced at how they could adapt so easily - they don't seem to be affected by the sun or foreign bacteria like those found in all water sources for instance.

This leads me to problems in terms of character development.

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First and foremost, four POVs is not an easy feat, so it was not unexpected to find little to no variation between character voices. I kept needing to pay attention to recall which POV I was reading. And don't forget my mention of flashbacks on top of it! If we speak individually, whether due to the number of perspectives or simply poor character building, the characters are hard to grasp.

It's difficult to see them as real people, or as anything other than plot devices. How can a kid raised in a ship be an instant pro at hunting prey, to the point of being able to shoot a bird with a bow and arrow in a matter of days or maybe a couple of weeks, either is unrealistic with minimal effort? Additionally, being the first humans to arrive on this planet in centuries, who then must depend on each other to survive, we get a group dynamic that remains mostly superficial.

I would have expected this to be the driving force of a story with such a setting. It may sound like I have a lot of negative to say about this book and thus telling you you should not read it, but this is not the case. In the end I have to admit that it kept my interest from start to finish due to its fascinating premise and my love of survival stories. The book's short chapters makes it a quick read, add some frightening turn of events on top of an ending that stirs up the pot and we have ourselves an entertaining read despite its flaws.

A lot depends on the sequel at this point. If the author puts effort into making her world solid and her plot sustainable, I think it could be one of those that's better rated as a series than its individual installments. I would recommend this one to fans of the TV series Lost and sci-fi romance.

For more of my reviews, visit my blog at Xpresso Reads Feb 13, Stacia the club marked it as did-not-finish. The top of the review space says: What did you think? What did I think? I think I'm out. That's what I think. There were too many PoV's. As well, there were too many flashbacks for too many PoV's.

Sadly, I'm not even sure if the show is going to work for me. When all the kids ran off the ship in a very non-cautious and jubilant way, I think my mouth dro The top of the review space says: When all the kids ran off the ship in a very non-cautious and jubilant way, I think my mouth dropped open. My husband casually remarked, "they're teenagers. What did you expect? Engaging in drunken antics which you end up regretting the next morning is not equal to disembarking a spaceship without concern on a possibly dangerous, contaminated, and uninhabited planet.

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Feb 03, Renata rated it liked it. Bueno voy a dejar de comparar el libro con la serie, pero me ha encantado. Mar 19, Courtney Wells rated it really liked it Shelves: I've been watching the show since it first aired and am ashamed to admit I didn't know there was a book it was based on. Having read this, I understand why changes were made for the show's purposes but I feel the book really did more with the characters. It was written in a style I felt was engaging and engrossing overall; however, some of the characters relied heavily on tropes and had flimsy, foolish motivations at times.

For that reason the plot stretched disbelief in some places while wearin I've been watching the show since it first aired and am ashamed to admit I didn't know there was a book it was based on. For that reason the plot stretched disbelief in some places while wearing patience elsewhere. Nonetheless, it was entertaining with a few genuine twists whether or not you've watched the show. I'll eventually read on with the series to see what comes of it but I'll say it's an exciting, interesting start so far. View all 9 comments.

Sep 03, Kelly and the Book Boar rated it it was ok Shelves: Find all of my reviews at: All I knew going in was that this is currently a television series on the CW Network. Random percentage who love not only one of the Salvatore brothers, but also love Klaus. So when the premise for The was the populous residing on a soon-to-be uninhabitable space station for the past years due to Earth being evacuated after a nuclear holocaust, and the only for the survival of civilization is in the hands of guinea pigs juvenile delinquents — I was intrigued.

When it comes to The , make sure you go in with low expectations. Okay, lower them even more until you reach something a little more along these lines: Good news is, Day 21 is also available as an instant read on NetGalley. Crossing my fingers for a little less talk and a lot more action in in the next installment. ARC provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. View all 20 comments. May 13, Krista marked it as to-read Shelves: Saw a clip for the CW show, and all I can say is that it looks awesome! Now, I'm super excited for this book. Just watch the show. And it could have been x better.

After a nuclear winter almost destroyed earth, what was left of the population had to turn to space to keep the human race alive. But their home has begun break and fall apart, and so criminals are sent on a desperate mission to earth to see if the planet is survivable. That sounded interesting enough to read about to me. But what could have been a great sci-fi and dystopian novel was instead a mushy gushy novella-like tale with no shortage of drama.

One of the things that bothered me the most was the utter lack of world building. The amount of details and information not given was ridiculous. First of all, we are told no good reason as to why humans had to abandon earth. This is for real all we get: As nuclear and biological war threatened to destroy Earth, space had been the only option for those lucky enough to survive the first stages of the cataclysm.

What happened to earth?! Second of all, the colony puts the young children and teenagers btw on a rickety drop ship and shoots them in the general direction of what was once east coast USA. They send juvenile children to a desolate, possibly radiation soaked planet with no way to communicate with them and I just had to shake my head. There are four main characters, each with their own POV: Clarke, Wells, Bellamy and Glass. Bellamy, the hot-headed rebel who always thinks he knows best was my favorite for sure. Now she was being given a second chance at life. And Bellamy was going to make damn sure she got it.

He was going to Earth with her. He has a borderline manic urge to protect his sister, Octavia. He is a part of the by his own choice and would do anything and everything to protect her. But this strong bond between them was very believable after reading their background story, and I had to admire him. These people who were given a chance at a new beginning? Yeah, they spend the book wrapped around their love lives.

I was beginning to lose it. I was the most disappointed with Glass. I saw a lot of potential there, but she was not utilized properly. All her pages were filled with the drama between her and her boyfriend. It contributed nothing to the plot and I felt that it was an absolute waste of space.

After finishing this book, I was actually extremely wary about watching the show. While I found reading the book to be funny. But the show totally wins. No surprise there though.

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If you find the plot interesting, I recommend for you to just watch the show. I was still entertained and others probably would be as well. I think I might actually want to read book 2 someday. Why on earth is Finn on the cover of this book? He's not in the book! Crossing my fingers this won't be as cheesy as I fear it will be. View all 19 comments.

Mar 02, Kimi rated it liked it Shelves: Edit after watching 2 seasons of the TV Show in less than a week: You guys ditch this book and go watch the TV Show like right now! It's 10 times better I kid you not. The ones I hated: He took some very questionable decisio Edit after watching 2 seasons of the TV Show in less than a week: He took some very questionable decisions throughout this novel. The ones I liked: Her whole story was just so interesting and heart breaking at the same time.

There, I said it. She was just jumping back and forth between two guys Bellamy and Wells , which is a huge turn off for me. View all 13 comments. Dec 03, Marnie rated it liked it. The tv show is one of my absolute favourites, so going into this book, I didn't actually have very high expectations. I'd heard that the book was very different to the show, and since I love the show, I wasn't too sure on what to expect.

However, this book was exactly what I needed to feed my cravings whilst the tv show is on break until later in the year! The story is different, and I liked hearing about the characters that have no appearance on the show. I mean, anything that involves Bellamy B The tv show is one of my absolute favourites, so going into this book, I didn't actually have very high expectations. For me, the story was a compelling read which I finished in one day. Although, if I hadn't watched the show before I'd read the book, I highly doubt I would've liked it as much as I did. It got 3 stars due to me recognising that I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much without watching the tv show, although, I would definitely recommend this to any 'The ' fans waiting for the show to come back!

Jul 21, Emily Obsessed Reader rated it it was amazing. I am sitting here impatiently waiting for the last two books in the series to get in my mailbox so I can marathon them both. Probably in one sitting. View all 3 comments. I wanted to love this with all of my heart, I truly did. The show is one of my favourites of all time, but the book just left me disappointed. Now let us talk ab I wanted to love this with all of my heart, I truly did. Now let us talk about two main things, plot and characters, since everything else is not really worth talking about, since I could find no redeeming qualities in this novel except the fact that the show is based off of it.

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Same plot as the show, except it takes for ever for anything to happen here, and when it does is a lot of things we do not care for, or that don't make as much sense at all. It is basically a bunch of kids truing to make a fire during the day, while in the show they encounter grounders, betrayals, a hunt for their original destination, loves and friendships are formed. Yep I must have definitely skipped that part in the book since the plot has no development. So you know Bellamy? Good-hearted but hides it because doesn't know how to deal with his feelings?

Yep, he is not in the book. There is someone with a similar name, but he is a doormat with no depth. You remember Clarke right? The boss of the show? Well versed in medicine? Leader that alongside Bellamy must make hard decisions? Nope, she is literally the cause of the problem, because some imbecile was so in love with her that he risked everyone else's life on the spaceship. Octavia is not Octavia, she is an insolent child with no distinguishable characteristics.

There is Glass and Luke but they are so irrelevant that I don't even want to discuss them. I don't even think they were mentioned, and they could have added so much to the plot. This is not the post-apocalyptic book the series presents, but rather a very weak and unnecessary way to introduce a love triangle.

There is literally so little world building that you are just left confused and with a desire to burn the book from every library on earth and stop the distribution of such idiocy. Oh and I forgot about the writing, let me summarize my opinion with a few quotes: No matter how many times she heard them words, they never ceased to make her shiver. View all 5 comments. July - 3. May - 4 stars Still: I don't know why these books aren't more popular, the plot is fantastic, the characters feel so real, it's so good!

I quite enjoyed this book. Loved seeing the different perspectives and flashbacks, those added a little something extra to the novel. It was also fun picking out the similarities and differences to the TV Show, which I love so much. I didn't feel a great connection to the characters in this book, but there was definitely something there, so hopefully it grows when I read the next 2 books! View all 4 comments. Kass Morgan is geboren op 21 juli in New York. Ze is een Amerikaanse schrijfster en redacteur. Ze is voornamelijk bekend door de serie de Het boek gaat over dat de aarde onleefbaar is geworden.

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In het ruimteschip waar de mensheid leeft, raken de voorraden langzaam op. Het lijkt een onmenselijke oplossing: Krij Kass Morgan is geboren op 21 juli in New York. Krijgen ze een tweede kans of is dit voor hen het einde? Clarke droomde al jaren van de aarde en wilde er samen met haar ouders naar toe.

Nu moet ze alleen. Voor Glass betekent het dat ze iemand moet achterlaten tegen wie ze nooit meer zal kunnen zeggen waarom ze echt werd opgepakt. Bellamy en Wells behoren niet tot de gevangenen, maar willen allebei mee om iemand te beschermen. Tegen welke prijs doen ze dit? De moeten samen proberen te overleven, maar wie kun je vertrouwen als al je lotgenoten een crimineel verleden hebben? Lezen vanaf ca 15 jaar. Ik heb de serie nog niet gezien. Ik wil eerst alle drie de boeken lezen. Ik heb mensen horen zeggen dat het boek en de serie niet op elkaar lijken, dus ik ben benieuwd.

Het boek vind ik in ieder geval goed! Ik heb weer een nieuwe serie erbij. Het leest vlot weg. Ik ben benieuwd naar de andere 2 delen en de serie. The has been billed as Battlestar Galactica for teens, and, for once, I totally agree with the marketing. Of course, it's very much season 3 Battlestar where things started going a bit off the rails, with some people on planet in weird costumes and Gaius Baltar becoming some sort of religious figure on the ships. I mean, not exactly, but that's the level of quality the book has.

It's not the first season of awesome, and it's not quite the ending where I didn't know what the fuck was happenin The has been billed as Battlestar Galactica for teens, and, for once, I totally agree with the marketing. It's not the first season of awesome, and it's not quite the ending where I didn't know what the fuck was happening anymore. What it comes down to is that The is a highly entertaining drama-fest set in space, but not especially deep. Word on the street is that The is set to be a show on the CW.

Now, I don't know if it's for certain yet or not, but I can see this making a really great teen show. The reason I'm starting this book review with this particular comment is to help you understand whether you'll enjoy reading the book. If you enjoy CW teen programming with a little bit of a plot and a big heaping helping of teen angst over the top, then The is a good choice for a quick, entertaining read. Morgan uses four third person limited perspectives in The Clarke, Wells, Bellamy, and Glass. Just try and guess their genders based on their names alone!

Actually, speaking of gender, that's one of the things that I think The did fairly well. Women are not entirely marginalized in this futuristic society, which is a nice change from so much science fiction and dystopian stuff out there. Clarke's actually one of the stronger characters and Glass, though I didn't like her, does make choices for herself. Anyway, these teens live on a spaceship and things are kind of a hot mess on board.

There are rules about who can have kids, and capital punishment is really popular with the government. All four of the main characters, except for Bellamy, are Confined, basically imprisoned until their eighteenth birthdays which are rapidly approaching. At that point, they're to have a retrial, but that's just a formality, because no one's being found innocent at retrials anymore.

So the point is that of the teens from Confinement are going to be put on a ship and sent to earth to make sure it's habitable again more on that later. Then there are some shenanigans and Glass ends up staying on the ship, allowing the reader to find out about all of the drama happening there, and Bellamy gets himself onto the prison ship.

The ship goes down to earth and the rebellious teens start in on the romantic drama and trying to set up a rudimentary society, only they're a rebellious and b basing their knowledge of how society works off of the ship. All of this means things get pretty serious fast and it's totally a popcorn read. What saves The from being merely a surface read and builds out a bit of depth are the flashbacks in every chapter. These flashbacks show how the teens ended up in Confinement, and slowly reveal how desperate the situation on the ship had gotten. They really raise the stakes and the intensity, as you realize how far each one of these teens is willing to go.

As much fun as The is to read, I had some issues with the world building, in that I would like more of it. I mean, the reader does learn that there was some sort of nuclear something or other and Earth is now irradiated. While they're waiting for the radiation to dissipate, they're chilling on this ship. Supposedly the radiation is maybe down to livable levels.

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What I want to know is roughly how long they've been on the ship and how they got there. Was there a plan in place to escape before things went haywire like in Phoebe North's Starglass? There's really no inkling of that. Also, most of the characters are pretty terrible people, which means that I really don't care if they live or die. Even the nicest of them is such a terrible judge of character that I don't really care what happens to him either.

I still had fun reading about them, but there's definitely no emotional investment here. The is the bookish equivalent of a teen TV show, complete with romantic drama, shirtless boys and action scenes. It's fun and a nice choice for when you don't want to have to think too hard, and sometimes that's just the kind of book you need, you know? Aug 21, Neil or bleed rated it did not like it Shelves: And I note to myself that I will love this one. But maybe you can't just force yourself to love something you don't find loving. I like the concept of The yet almost the whole book was all about love-- kissing, saying "I love you" and whatnot.

Really characters, this is supposed-to-be a story of survival and discovery, not love. But love conquers all so that's why. Not that I had issues about love but this love engulf or slay the promising premise and left the world of the book hanging and uninteresting. Despite of that, I like the idea when the characters remembered their past supplying me knowledge about them; about why they acting like that, and somehow completing the puzzle. I also like the idea that nobody or none was perfect after all. Still, you annoy me so much. The door slid open, and Clarke knew it was time to die.

Too many POV's for my taste Clarke and Bellamy's POV was perfectly fine for me, but Wells and Glass was okay in the start, but then I started losing interest in them, specially Wells.. Though, I had expected a love-hate relationship between Clarke and Bellamy like in the TV-show, but I guess you kinda have to separate the book and the show, The door slid open, and Clarke knew it was time to die. Though, I had expected a love-hate relationship between Clarke and Bellamy like in the TV-show, but I guess you kinda have to separate the book and the show, because the were A LOT of different from each other..

But at least we got at many Bellarke scenes, which was the only reason I decided to read this book: Wells is so in love that he is crazy that's what I think at least.. Some might think it's cute, but I think it's a little too much. He could be a cool friend if he cooled down a bit, and.. I don't mind him being in love with Clarke, but what he did? Man, that was insane!

Bellamy leaned back with a sigh and closed his eyes, wondering how long it would take until she stopped being the last person he thought about before he fell asleep. Specially, Bob Morley as Bellamy.. Damn, he's just the perfect one.. In the TV show, he's dangerous, sexy, badass and a bad boy.. But in the book though, he all that, but he also not? I don't know how to explain.. He's just too kind to be a bad boy yet, I think.. Perhaps it will come.. I sure hope so! I do love a bad boy!!! Because you get to decide who lives and who dies.

You destroy everything you touch. She's just a girl trying to save her best friend. I felt no hatred, no dislike toward her at all, though I was afraid I would because of the love triangle I know was going to be in the book. But she handled it well, I must say: Clarke is a really strong girl, who's been trough a hell of a lot. She's a independent 17 years old girl who knows how to take care of herself, yet help other at the same time. I just love her.

Some people had never left. This book was better than I thought it was going to be, and I can't wait to see how the journey will continue. Though there was quite many writing mistakes, making it hard to read at times, it was an enjoyable reading, and I cannot wait to continue reading the series: Since the TV show really aren't following the book series as it seems after reading this one , then I seriously have NO idea what will happen So I'm genially curious on what will happen!

D On to the next one!! View all 18 comments. Jun 24, Kaya Dimitrova rated it really liked it Shelves: The have you read? The TV Show 48 Apr 14, Kass Morgan studied literature at Brown and Oxford, and now resides in Brooklyn, where she lives in constant fear of her Ikea bookcase collapsing and burying her under a mound of science fiction and Victorian novels. Other books in the series. The 4 books. Books by Kass Morgan. Trivia About The The , Quotes from The