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unpopular opinion by someone who read too many 2014 YA dystopian, but please can i have one original worldbuilding element and meaningful theme please? boredom and predictability all around me


guess I expected more out of this one? Ava Reid is known for her gothic stories and I have enjoyed Juniper & Thorn so the shift to dystopian for her first sapphic story was unexpected (and maybe disappointing on my end). Her gothic writing is very atmospheric and while Fable is well-written (better than other YA if you'll allow me this one) it's not a marvel of atmosphere, worldbuilding, or romance. It was, unfortunately, boring.

Fable gives off strong 2014YA dystopian clearly inspired by the Young Adult stories I read when I (and likely Ava Reid) too was a teenager. The problem with me having read so many of them back when it was popular was that it made Fable seem uninspired and predictable. So you've got an Hunger Games-like class division with televised suffering of the poors without the thoughtful exploration of the Hunger Games because here it's just set dressing. You've got an emotionless android assassin who feels things and can't kill her target (I guess Crier's War and then a mix of other older titles).

I am going to be fair and say that I really enjoyed Inesa's brother helping her out and being a strong figure in her life even though that fizzles out very quickly.

It is not a book that captured my interest, I was bored and i didn't like the characters that felt like clichés of the genre. The romance was only interesting in the originality of the ending and that's all. It's not a very good book or even a good dystopian. What are we exploring? The government streams the deaths of people in exchange for debts. Okay, capitalism and television, is there anything original or well-explored? I'll say it, Inesa's mother was the most complex part of the book and the only thing that made me feel for this book.

Overall, this book is written like the first in a duology or trilogy, and if it is, I am going to be mad that we live in a world where we no longer announce those things. However, I'm not interested. I'm tired of surprise duologies.