This is painfully, painfully bad, and as such I only got half way through it. Almost every page has rhetorical questions the characters ask themselves in the author's attempt at super-thinly veiled foreshadowing and suspense building. How many times can one person wonder: will she ever come back? Is he going to betray us? What did this person mean by that thing? Will I ever remember this thing I asked about remembering two pages ago? Is this tool getting a little obvious? Who am I talking to? And when I say that's on every page, I'm being literal. And I was reading it on my phone, so the pages were smaller than those in the physical book. The narration is broken up by character, and every chapter from the main character's POV is about whether or not she should fall in love with her love interest. Not about, ya know, how they're going to survive, or about world-building. The author uses precious page space that could've been used for better-crafted sentences or a more fully-realized post-apocalyptic landscape to continue to debate on and on about the merits of following your heart or your head in survival situations.Guess which one she advocates? The one that made me roll my eyes so far into the back of my head that I might need surgical correction.I enjoyed the first book, but this one was just phoned in. I saw this book and decided to buy it because it looked interesting but I didn't know it was the second book in a series so it was a miracle that I actually finished it! There were alot of things that were happening all at the same time, and making the book from a different person's POV didn't help at all. It's very disappointing that I didn't get what happened in the previous book, I got bits and pieces but I still can't get the big picture. Something I know for sure, I am not reading this series again!
What do You think about Fuse (2013)?
Still really enjoying this trilogy. Hurry up, the third one!
—vannguyen
