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My thoughts

1.5/5stars The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past. Okay but why?? No seriously?? Why? Why no color? Why no animals? Why no music? What makes the absence of all these things in this Utopian world a necessity? And how the hell does it help in any way except to progress the story?? This is supposed to be a dystopian classic and everyone and their mothers apparently love it and I just have one question: WHY? I mean it's so boring pointless and absurd to the point that half of the things happening/mentioned feel so illogical like why tf did that even happen (except ofc because the author wanted to turn the story every which way possible) I have never ever disliked any book this much, there literally was nothing in this book I actually cared about: not the plot (because duh, it was all over the place) def not the characters(wtf were they even upto, everyone's character arc looks like a fucking sine wave, JUST DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT OHGOD) and not even the writing style, except that it very easy to read through. Literally the only good thing about this book is that I finished it in one day, it was short and easy to sit through Yes the premise was interesting, yes it could have been developed into something "mind-blowing" but WAS IT? I don't think so. That's the thing with sci-fis and dystopian stories, despite having a good initial idea if you don't let it bloom nicely it leads to a disaster like this. There are so many loopholes, unexplained "rules" and things that keep happening, it just doesn't make sense. I wish I could have loved this book as much as everyone else but it's a solid NO. Never ever am I subjecting myself to this disaster again.