Atlantia - Ally Condie
- Jul 7, 2016
- 2 min read
Book Synopsis: Can you hear Atlantia breathing? For as long as she can remember, Rio has dreamt of the sand and sky Above—of life beyond her underwater city of Atlantia. But in a single moment, all her plans for the future are thwarted when her twin sister, Bay, makes an unexpected decision, stranding Rio Below. Alone, ripped away from the last person who knew Rio’s true self—and the powerful siren voice she has long hidden—she has nothing left to lose. Guided by a dangerous and unlikely mentor, Rio formulates a plan that leads to increasingly treacherous questions about her mother’s death, her own destiny, and the complex system constructed to govern the divide between land and sea. Her life and her city depend on Rio to listen to the voices of the past and to speak long-hidden truths.
Seriously, what a let down. I'm not quite sure where the author got this idea to make a fictional world of sirens and mermaids (merpeople, mermen, merfolk?) Anyway, it was quite the disappointment - I finished it in one sitting, probably about 25 minutes passed before I reached the ending. I have high hopes for her Matched trilogy, hopefully I am not going to be let down like I was reading this book.
Firstly, the names, they are so bizarre, I have no clue why the names were so hard to remember and why the uniqueness? Honestly, this felt like reading really bad fan-fiction. The Above and the Below are just so problematic and Rio has enough problems to deal with already: that her twin sister betrayed her, her aunt is crazy, her mom died mysteriously.
This just was not my cup of tea. Usually, I like books about mermaids, but this one was just too out there for me. My younger cousin recommended this book to me, but I found out later that she didn't even understand or like the novel (money wasted on literature like this.)
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
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