There are no men in Claysoot. There are boys—but every one of them vanishes at midnight on his eighteenth birthday. The ground shakes, the wind howls, a blinding light descends…and he’s gone.
They call it the Heist.
Gray Weathersby’s eighteenth birthday is mere months away, and he’s prepared to meet his fate–until he finds a strange note from his mother and starts to question everything he’s been raised to accept: the Council leaders and their obvious secrets. The Heist itself. And what lies beyond the Wall that surrounds Claysoot–a structure that no one can cross and survive.
Climbing the Wall is suicide, but what comes after the Heist could be worse. Should he sit back and wait to be taken–or risk everything on the hope of the other side?
Nope. Didn't like this one at all. It's been a while since I've disliked a book so much that I didn't really care what happened at the end. And unfortunately this book just didn't provide enough action for me to be invested in any part of it.
Gray is really boring. I am personally not a fan of male character leads to begin with and Gray is the perfect example. He is all talk and no action. Even when there is action it is just a means to get to the next 'plot twist', a.k.a. sitting and talking about this one thing a character said 30 pages ago that is somehow significant now.
This book had all the ingredients of a classic dystopian novel: post-war towns rising from the ashes of battle, a single leader running the rest of civilization into the ground, and of course the rebellion against said leader. This book didn't give me anything new to think or get excited about. As soon as we learned the town was surrounded by an impenetrable wall, we KNEW Gray had to cross it. And OF COURSE he'll live, he's the main character!
Nothing in this book was suspenseful for me, I could see every big reveal coming a mile away. So about halfway through the book I no longer had any desire to read about Gray and his so-called 'adventures' and that was the most disappointing part. If I'm not motivated to read, then why bother? But I did bother and skimmed the rest of the book to see if I was right...and I was.
I will not be reading any more of the Taken series, I just can't bring myself to do it. 1 star
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