Book Title: The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Author: Carrie Ryan
Series: The Forest of Hands and Teeth #1
Date Started: April 28th 2014
Date Completed: April 30th 2014
Genres: Romance, Dystopian
Rating: Two stars
Review:
The Forest of Hands and Teeth had such great promise, but it was just poorly executed for me. I'm quite upset actually, because I really like the idea, and some of the ideas in the book are really interesting. But it just wasn't for me.
Mary has lived within the fences her entire life, save from the Unconsecrated that moan metres from her life. But when her mother is bitten, and decides to join the dead on the outside, Mary is thrown out by her brother and sent to live with the Sisters. But there's more behind the Sisterhood than first seems; and the village she has grown up in can't hold its defences forever.
I don't have anything to say about the writing. It was average to me, and fast to read. It didn't make me feel for the characters or explain what was really going on.
As a reader, I was thrown in far too fast; even though I love being thrown into the unknown, the themes used in the early part of this book are completely new and needed a little more explanation to make sense to me at that time. This didn't stop at the beginning, and carried on throughout the whole book - it felt very rushed and almost like a draft that hadn't been completely edited.
Another bad point for me was that the romance dominated any hope of a mixed storyline. In addition, I didn't care about Mary's relationship problems and how upset she is that everyone loves her but not in the way she wants. Again, it could have been really good is properly developed throughout the story rather than being shoved at the reader straight away.
On the other hand, the consistent idea and goal of reaching the ocean that Mary was relatable and actually really nice. The way the ocean was described brought out the good side of Mary. (Though, it didn't have the driving force I thought it would at the beginning.)
I, unfortunately, don't have anything to say about any of the characters really, because I don't care about any of them. Things were happening too fast for the reader to get to know the people in the book before they were put in situations where the reader needed to like them to get on with the story.
Mary was a disappointing protagonist, since she started off with some promise. She was overlooked by everyone, and if I were her I'd just want to shout at all of them. However, as the story went on she became more and more annoying and I felt less and less sympathy for her. It wasn't until the last few pages when I completely gave up hope: until then Mary is somewhat detached from her situation, which is fair enough, however when she finally cracked I didn't care because she was so dismissive of the experiences of her friends.
The pace of this book is very fast moving. But, for me, there just wasn't anything that interested me enough to grab my attention. The parts where the group were moving around, finding their way and fighting for their lives were great - but everything else just plummeted for me.
I'm really, really disappointed, because I was expecting to love this book. It was just too fast in the places where detail was needed, and too slow in the downplay of the book. Even though I didn't enjoy this book, some people might, so if you like zombie novels and conflicting romances, then you might get along better than I did.
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth had such great promise, but it was just poorly executed for me. I'm quite upset actually, because I really like the idea, and some of the ideas in the book are really interesting. But it just wasn't for me.
Mary has lived within the fences her entire life, save from the Unconsecrated that moan metres from her life. But when her mother is bitten, and decides to join the dead on the outside, Mary is thrown out by her brother and sent to live with the Sisters. But there's more behind the Sisterhood than first seems; and the village she has grown up in can't hold its defences forever.
I don't have anything to say about the writing. It was average to me, and fast to read. It didn't make me feel for the characters or explain what was really going on.
As a reader, I was thrown in far too fast; even though I love being thrown into the unknown, the themes used in the early part of this book are completely new and needed a little more explanation to make sense to me at that time. This didn't stop at the beginning, and carried on throughout the whole book - it felt very rushed and almost like a draft that hadn't been completely edited.
Another bad point for me was that the romance dominated any hope of a mixed storyline. In addition, I didn't care about Mary's relationship problems and how upset she is that everyone loves her but not in the way she wants. Again, it could have been really good is properly developed throughout the story rather than being shoved at the reader straight away.
On the other hand, the consistent idea and goal of reaching the ocean that Mary was relatable and actually really nice. The way the ocean was described brought out the good side of Mary. (Though, it didn't have the driving force I thought it would at the beginning.)
I, unfortunately, don't have anything to say about any of the characters really, because I don't care about any of them. Things were happening too fast for the reader to get to know the people in the book before they were put in situations where the reader needed to like them to get on with the story.
Mary was a disappointing protagonist, since she started off with some promise. She was overlooked by everyone, and if I were her I'd just want to shout at all of them. However, as the story went on she became more and more annoying and I felt less and less sympathy for her. It wasn't until the last few pages when I completely gave up hope: until then Mary is somewhat detached from her situation, which is fair enough, however when she finally cracked I didn't care because she was so dismissive of the experiences of her friends.
The pace of this book is very fast moving. But, for me, there just wasn't anything that interested me enough to grab my attention. The parts where the group were moving around, finding their way and fighting for their lives were great - but everything else just plummeted for me.
I'm really, really disappointed, because I was expecting to love this book. It was just too fast in the places where detail was needed, and too slow in the downplay of the book. Even though I didn't enjoy this book, some people might, so if you like zombie novels and conflicting romances, then you might get along better than I did.
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