Author: Shannon Hale
Publication Date: March 4th 2014
~A copy was provided by Bloomsbury via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review~
~A copy was provided by Bloomsbury via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review~
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Maisie Danger Brown just wanted to get away from home for a bit, see something new. She never intended to fall in love. And she never imagined stumbling into a frightening plot that kills her friends and just might kill her, too. A plot that is already changing life on Earth as we know it. There's no going back. She is the only thing standing between danger and annihilation.From NY Times bestselling author Shannon Hale comes a novel that asks, How far would you go to save the ones you love? And how far would you go to save everyone else?
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While Dangerous was fun and hilarious in a lot of places, and
while I loved that our MC was a one-handed half Latina, and our main cast were
mostly multi-cultural, and above all else, Sci-FI, I had to DNF at 45% because
I honestly couldn't take much more it. Besides the little Knicks and knacks
here and there, the two main reasons I didn't it was the pacing and constant
bitchy/sarcastic thoughts.
I thought I was going to love it, I really did. It started
off great, and Maisie immediately sucked me in, she was level headed, knew what
she wanted and wasn't letting her disability get in her way. She was
home-schooled, but she wasn't hidden from the world because of her disability
or what people would think. She knew what people would think, and I don't think
it bothered her at all, or at least, not that much, she was focused on what she
wanted. she was self-sufficient really,
and while she may not have been as confident as she seemed, she was a
strong character for her age, and used
her humour to charm people.
The downside?
That humour got pretty damn annoying after 30%, seriously,
it really did. Now, I love funny characters, absolutely love them, but in places it can be fun, and certainly adds to her
characteristic, but it also gets pretty damn tiring.
She also became that person
when the inevitable boy drama comes into it. You know how it goes. The
self-sufficient , level headed MC becomes a mess, yay.
The second main reason I mentioned was the pace. Yes, that
lovely pace. Now, colour me YA, we all
know some are fast paced, especially when it comes to the romance. And while
this wasn't Instalove it was kind of worse because it was Instanothing. No
feelings whatsoever. Maisie and the ever
infallible Wilder, meet, swap files, keeps each other's files for no apparent
reason, and then are kissing up, up, and away.
Speaking of...
I don't mind a fast paced book, I don't. In fact, I really
do sometimes enjoy them a lot more, and especially when it comes to a 200+ but
under 300 paged book, like Mind Games by Kiersten White. Since Dangerous is 400
pages in the HB, it had the time to flesh things out, and it didn't.
We're introduced to Maisie, her parents, her best friend,
then she's off to space camp, from a competition on the back of cereal
box. Blah, blah, blah, a little boy
drama with Wilder and his daddy issues, speed forward, Maisie, Wilder and the
other 3 misfits are up in space, get infected by this alien bacteria thing that
attacks their system and suddenly were playing on a Fantastic Four Five level.
And then the pace slows...slows...zzzz...oh, run away...
drama...run...slows...slows...zzzz...oh, here's Wilder
again...slows....slows...zzzz...oh, here's Wilder again, and...oh look, he's all...
(Okay, not really, but all my loves in one place)
Wilder
get's carried away and Maisie say's no, and then he basically begs her. Way to
go. :/.
"My brain is infused with billions of clever-making nanites. You'd think I could come up with a strategy to get a pretty girl to sleep with me"
Uh, no. That shit isn't funny. Goodbye.
