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Yeah, about that ten years

Orson Scott Card once said that books, fiction books, were divided into four different groups: those that focused on character, those that focused on a new world, those that focused on an event, and those that focused on an idea. This was a character book.
Every good character book needs some kind of tension for their characters, and this book provides them. Indeed two main tensions. Well, no, three:
1) First of all there is the 'wow, I have suddenly become a whole different person than I thought I was going to be growing up. I am suddenly 'marked', have magical powers, and have to become one of two different groups, very antagonistic, living miles apart.
2) I suddenly have a very deep relationship with several new people, including a sexual interest, and our relationships get torn about by the above mentioned two groups.
3) Someone is killing a bunch of people. Our kind of people. Needs to be stopped.
The author handles each of these tensions pretty well. The very annoying ten year gap in the story is a cheat: designed to keep the reader's mind on the 'how we felt about each other when we got broken up', and pass lightly over the (relatively important) new idea that 'we are part of two separate groups the hate each other' without having to actually explain why these two groups hate each other… or what most of them do most of the time anyway.
But the ten year gap works for that. If the author, or the reader, doesn't want to do the hard work of living through (or writing through or reading through) that ten year gap while the tension rises even while the nostalgic 'remember who we were then' fails to fade… then one needs a ten year gap.
But my problem with this book is I happen to like books that actually explain the world, and where the world makes sense. And this book, and this world, do not. Two groups which can fight extremely well due to the above mentioned magical powers: cool. These two groups in a world where no fighting goes on? Weird.
So, anyway, I want to see in the ten year gap, and I want to learn about the world. Oh, and I hate this whole 'sacrifice' thing. Go on a quest and do great things, cool. Condemn to non-existence your potential family? Not at all cool.


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Division of the Marked The Marked Series Book 1 eBook March McCarron Reviews

I totally did not like the ending, because I HATE cliffhangers of this type. Continuations are one thing, but an outright cliffhanger is intolerable. The book was pretty good until the last quarter, when it became very tedious, as if the author was just trying to string it out for the next book....which it seems is exactly what she had in mind. A book should come to some kind of conclusion, even if there is a sequel.
Pacing was a bit off and at times you saw the "tricks" the author used trying to show and not tell, like having a character read a book about the history of the "marked" to get a lot of world building information out quickly. Some spelling mix ups such as "poured" instead of "pored" over a book, which editing would have fixed. Seriously I could smell the sequel coming from about a 5th from the ending, That'sthe negative

So it has familiar themes etc, but I wanted to finish, some characters were better developed than others but all were developed and thank god, I was beginning to despise Bray after a while. It's a solid 3 out of 5.
Excellent first book introducing readers to author March McCarron's world where on a specific night each year exactly 50 fourteen year old's from assorted societies suddenly develop a brand -like mark on their neck. The mark identifies theses teens as future members of a mysterious caste called the Crisanta. Each young future Crisanta are retrieved from their childhood homes travelling by horse and carriage to be tested; all will join either the distinctive shorn warrior faction or the equally distinctive long-braided scholarly class. During young Yarrow's ride,he unknowingly meets others, including young Bray, who will share his life. However, despite forming bonds during their secretive ride to the testing, Yarrow learns he and Bray along with many of his new friends will be separated forever due to an obscure prophecy foretelling the two factions of the Crisanta will battle one day. For this reason each faction mistrusts the other and must remain separate. Years of training later, a new rising enemy brings these friends back together as they work to save their way of life. Can ancient prejudices be overcome and old friendships prevail in the wake of an unexpected enemy? This book is appealing if you are a young adult as the characters develop from teens to adults. It is equally appealing to older readers who will appreciate the intrigue, inter-woven friendships and rivalries. And yes, ,even romantics will enjoy Yarrow and Bray's star_crossed love story .
Yeah, about that ten years

Orson Scott Card once said that books, fiction books, were divided into four different groups those that focused on character, those that focused on a new world, those that focused on an event, and those that focused on an idea. This was a character book.
Every good character book needs some kind of tension for their characters, and this book provides them. Indeed two main tensions. Well, no, three
1) First of all there is the 'wow, I have suddenly become a whole different person than I thought I was going to be growing up. I am suddenly 'marked', have magical powers, and have to become one of two different groups, very antagonistic, living miles apart.
2) I suddenly have a very deep relationship with several new people, including a sexual interest, and our relationships get torn about by the above mentioned two groups.
3) Someone is killing a bunch of people. Our kind of people. Needs to be stopped.
The author handles each of these tensions pretty well. The very annoying ten year gap in the story is a cheat designed to keep the reader's mind on the 'how we felt about each other when we got broken up', and pass lightly over the (relatively important) new idea that 'we are part of two separate groups the hate each other' without having to actually explain why these two groups hate each other… or what most of them do most of the time anyway.
But the ten year gap works for that. If the author, or the reader, doesn't want to do the hard work of living through (or writing through or reading through) that ten year gap while the tension rises even while the nostalgic 'remember who we were then' fails to fade… then one needs a ten year gap.
But my problem with this book is I happen to like books that actually explain the world, and where the world makes sense. And this book, and this world, do not. Two groups which can fight extremely well due to the above mentioned magical powers cool. These two groups in a world where no fighting goes on? Weird.
So, anyway, I want to see in the ten year gap, and I want to learn about the world. Oh, and I hate this whole 'sacrifice' thing. Go on a quest and do great things, cool. Condemn to non-existence your potential family? Not at all cool.