Slated: Book 1: 1/3 (SLATED Trilogy)

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Ich glaube, ich habe das Buch jetzt nur so schnell gelesen, da bereits ein anderes auf mich wartet und ich nicht möchte, dass mir dort am Ende die Zeit zum lesen fehlt, weil ich mich hiermit zu lange aufgehalten habe. Want to meet up with us on Sunday?" Ben looks at me, his arm still across Tori's shoulders. "We're going to the county show." Kleine Vorabinfo: Es ist irgendwie traurig, dass dieses Buch das letzte war, das ich für meine Reading Challenge noch habe lesen müssen. 🥳 You see, if you sit down and think about it, it begins to make sense. But while reading the novel, the experience was so juvenile and tripe that it didn't make sense. I was frustrated by the simplicity of the narration, the simplicity of all the characters; they did not give me any insights on this dystopian world they lived in. Teri Terry, author of the bestselling Slated trilogy, tells us why she decided to write her latest book Fated…

The "puzzle" that Kyla must solve throughout the course of this book was a little bit of a let down for me. Hmmmm, if I was being fair, I would'be given it a 3.8 stars rating and rounded it to four, but the ending just killed everything to me, so it's a 3.5 star rating rounded down. Whatever. A copy of this book was kindly provided by the publisher, Hachette Children's Books UK, for review purposes. I was, however, pleased with the way Aiden and Kyla's relationship evolved. He was the guy I was rooting for as a love interest, and although Kyla was pretty much oblivious to his feelings until the very end I am glad that the book hinted at a future for the two of them. One thing I appreciated about Aiden was that he completely supported Kyla, without being pushy or condescending. In contrast to Ben, he was a fully developed character. Shortly after arriving home, Kyla meets Ben Nix at a group therapy meeting for Slateds. Ben also attends the same high school with Kyla, where he is in some of her classes. Ben encourages her to come running with him and Kyla discovers that running counters the effect of the Levo, allowing both of them to be more like their real selves. Kyla finds herself attracted to tall, handsome Ben but thinks that maybe another Slated girl, Tori is his girlfriend. Kyla like all Slateds has been told to stay away from boys until she is twenty-one.Aiden hält vor dem heruntergekommenen Gebäude. Er sieht mich an. "Du brauchst keine Angst zu haben, Kyla." Kyla is special and the book does not let us forget this for a minute, which made me care less on the outcome of any confrontations as, hey, Kyla probably gets out of it relatively easily. Not to say that she is unsympathetic or unrealistic in her handling of things. Often it more or less feels like the other teenage characters, including love interest Ben, are just dumbed down or really apathetic, so that Kyla can shine. Especially Ben felt a bit stupid, something even the author noticed: Terry explains away his susceptibility as being a side effect of Slating. I would have been more interested if Terry had spent that time world-building. It took me a while to figure out that this was in the future, way past 2030 (the year Mum was in her teens?), and I get that there's a normal wold and the hospital, but that's about it. MUCH later, Mum tells us a little bit about the political campaign that kind of brought everything on, but it was very brief and didn't tell us much.

Seri bu kitapla son buldu ve 8 belki daha çok da ödül almış. Kötü bir seri değil kendi sınıfında ama bu kadar ödül almasına da şaşırmadım değil. Serinin sonuna gelecek olursak yazar biraz oldu bittiye getirdi her şeyi, hani hızlı biten dizilerde son bölümlerde her şey bir anda olur, her şey açığa kavuşur ya bunda da öyle oldu, çarçabucak onlarca soru cevaba kavuştu. Yazar sonu genel anlamda peri masalına çevirmiş, ancak sonda esas kız ve esas oğlan ile ilgili yaşanan gelişme konusunda gerçekçi davranmıştı. So overall, I think the premise is great. I just think it took way too long to get into the story - without good reason - and I think once I was in the story, I had more questions than I got answers. By the end of the book, I'm left knowing what happened but bursting with more uncertainty. I know Terry is planning to leave some of that for book 2, but I just feel like the hours I just spent on a book that FELT long, I was just hoping I would have had more answers. Her consciousness appeared. She has two past. One is up until she's 10 years old named Lucy. Lucy was a happy girl living with her dad (and mom actually but the memories of her mom didn't appear at all). Then one day she was kidnapped by Anti Governor Terrorist ( AGT). AGT was an organization that attempted to take down the Governor today. The Governor today was awful. It's leaded by a prime minister and helped by so many Inspectors . The Inspectors was feared by people in country as they always seemed to take people out then the people theirself gone. So the AGT took little Lucy for being the terrorist, the key of its success. Lucy was taught to be a left handed. This personality wasn't SLATED . So she gradually knew about her past when she was in AGT in 11-15 years old. When her memories gradually revealed. She met this man named Nico. Nico was likely the AGT 's leader. So Kyla joined to AGT to follow its plan to make a better England without Inspectors . Then in the end, she found out she was being used by AGT. She wished to be a suicide bomber. As the book description states; Kyla's memory has been erased - slated, is the term used in this dystopian England. It's a process the government uses on people below the age of sixteen, who are guilty of heinous crimes, most commonly terrorism.And everyone begins to move their chairs around into twos and threes, without discussion: they all know where they belong. I hesitate, unsure what to do, then jump as a warm hand rests on my shoulder: Ben. He leans over.

She freaking jumped. I can't even imagine that. How did she jump, I wonder? Half a meter in the air? With both feet up? Who knows? But she keeps on doing it anyway. Diese Reihe war ein Auf und Ab der Gefühle und insbesondere der letzte Teil ging drunter und drüber, denn mal gefiel mir das Buch richtig gut, manchmal langweilte ich mich zu Tode und manchmal konnte ich nur die Augen verdrehen und mir einreden, dass es ja bald vorbei war und ich es bald geschafft hatte.Kyla was a name of a girl that was SLATED . She didn't know about her past at all. Then gradually, the memories she had was appeared. First of all is when she found out that she is a left handed rather than a right handed. Well, she could use both hands actually. But when she underwent the SLATED procedure, she was diagnosed to be right handed. So the part that was SLATED was the time she was right handed. The left handed memories, came up, because it never meant to be SLATED . If there are ten year-olds committing heinous crimes such as drug-dealing, bombing, you can bet your panties that it is something organized and planned, and these children - much akin to prostitution and child labour - are victims themselves. I felt Kyla's pain throughout the whole book - it got better, than worse for her, and then better. And then worse. Her strength, emotionally, physically and as a character shone through for me and continued to grow with every chapter. Consequently, the writing is the driest monotone out there and there is pretty much absolutely nothing to keep you going. Like, how am I supposed to stay awake interested when much of the book sounds like this:

Not even the plot could keep me going because honestly, it's extremely flat and boring. There isn't enough to really keep the story moving because all and any plot twists were easily guessed. Slated is not an action-oriented thriller in the ilk of The Hunger Games. It’s not a tale of explosions, or edge-of-seat live-or-die exploits. This is a more underhanded, sly, pervasive threat and menace. Dystopian fiction is at its most effective and frightening when presenting a reality that is conceivable, and believable. This type of novel hinges not only on its audience's ability to believe such a thing could come to pass, but—just as Orwell did in 1984—plays on the innate fear that it is already happening, already here, that this is a future we could very well face if we do not take a good, hard look at ourselves. Terry presents a world terrifyingly close to our own, one that is halfway here, and it seems she is challenging her readers to not only think as they read Slated, to discover it, and Kyla’s, secrets, but to question what they know, contemplate the value of their basic civil liberties, and what ‘self’ truly means.There is so much mystery to this one. So much suspense and while readers may look at this book as purely Dystopian, it is so much more than that. It will appeal to readers of every genre, even those who like steamy romance. Fated is set just a few years in the future – a generation earlier than Slated. Three teens are at a crossroads in their lives at a time when the whole country seems to be disintegrating into violence and chaos. In Slated, terrorists and criminals under a certain age are rehabilitated by having their minds wiped clean of memories of their former lives. Placed with families, they are installed with a Levo to monitor levels of emotional stress (with a safety net of blowing their heads off should they fall too low, because you have to keep your former criminals in line, natch) and reintegrated into society.