The 100: The Hunger Games meets Divergent in this modern dystopian classic

The premise is great but it's poorly executed. Reads like a decent fanfiction. The worst thing is the character descriptions, I like books to play like films in my head but this book is severely lacking description. A great example of this is Wells. He's a main character and Clarkes love interest, he even has his own pov. Yet I have NO IDEA what he looks like, literally nothing. There has been no attempt made to describe his appearance at all. Everyone is in or about to be in a romantic relationship. So here we have Bellamy, hard arse who's constantly describing how the earth is like a all the women he's interacted with. So it makes it pretty obvious he's been around the block a few times. But then suddenly after just 20 days on earth with Clarke he's fallen in love, he even says he's only felt this way for one girl before. There are lots of little ( or big) plot holes. The arcadia is split into three parts, and oxygen is running low so it's decided that they're closing the sky bridge that connects the rich part to the poorer parts, so the rich people have more oxygen and the poor people are left to die. Glass and her boyfriend Luke are stuck on either side of the dividing wall, so like most people would do, Glass decides to jump in an AIRSHAFT and crawl to the other side. Like... why divide it when you have open airshafts. Other plot holes are : Clarke being able to diagnose how far an infection has spread without having any tools and then being able to make a person with infected blood, liver and kidney better by popping a antibiotic pill in her mouth. The 100 hitting the ground running with their survival instincts even though only two people know anything about surviving on earth. They also don't seem to be affected by low temperatures at night or anything of the sort. However it has redeeming qualities too. The premise is great. The drama and plot is pretty good too. Much darker than you'd think, like Bellamy as a kid leaving his mum to bleed to death on the kitchen floor. All make it more real and gritty, which is nice.

This book captured my attention fairly quickly - especially with the flashbacks and the exploring of characters personalities. It brought an aspect of Sci-Fi that I have rarely seen done so well, and it was made to be believable, as well. The characters seem to be stuck in the past, and both Clarke and Wells seem to feel extremely guilty, but I think that once we've learnt enough about the characters, the flashbacks become tiresome and lose my attention. The style of writing the author used is amazing, and seemed to describe things a lot more descriptively than what first person does. All in all, this book is amazing and aside from a few minor things, it's probably close to the best books I've read, and I'm sure that the sequels are just as good.

Don't care what everyone else says, I enjoyed. I don't think there were too many Pov's. Whole point of them was to help understand the characters more. Flashbacks - how else would you come to know what happened in the past that lead to the present state of the protagonists?? I quite enjoyed the writing style. I really hope Glass aren't too... Twilight-ey. Haven't finished the book yet. Almost done. Can't wait for the second one.