I suppose the whole point of a dystopian novel is that it's a bit disconcerting, but it doesn't really make for a comfortable read. I felt there was a bit too much violent detail when Arthur was fantasising about killing Dana - you could have left it to the imagination and added a bit of suspense by leaving it at 'I had the opportunity to kill her' in the first chapter, but instead there's a whole other paragraph about how he could have killed her - 'pushed down until her windpipe cracked and buckled', 'punched her in the face over and over until her brain was curdled in her skull'. Seemed like unnecessary imagery to me.
The storyline about Arthur being unhappy and trying to join the resistance helped the book along and added some suspense, but I felt the ending was a bit lacking - I expected there to have been more of an official ending, but it just felt like the same dystopian world was going to carry on indefinitely.
Certainly gives food for thought about the world as it is at the moment, but takes it too far into the 'women are the superior sex' category for me.
The storyline about Arthur being unhappy and trying to join the resistance helped the book along and added some suspense, but I felt the ending was a bit lacking - I expected there to have been more of an official ending, but it just felt like the same dystopian world was going to carry on indefinitely.
Certainly gives food for thought about the world as it is at the moment, but takes it too far into the 'women are the superior sex' category for me.