The idea that worldwide infertility led to a devastating series of world wars just doesn't hold water. I can buy into a city of assassins born to battle themselves, but I need concrete, believable background information about why the world evolved to be the way it is shown in Dualed. That felt like an egregious error in the worldbuilding. Why, exactly? An answer for both questions is never adequately provided for why the world is the way it is in West's time. The worldbuilding in particular seems weak and hardly plausible for the situation - for example, the reasoning for Kersh cutting off the rest of the world? The wars that sprouted up because.? Um.

It's just far from the most logical novel I've ever come across.

I may have had higher hopes going into this first outing from Elsie Chapman, but I must admit that it provided more than enough good aspects to keep me eagerly awaiting book two - Divided.įor the most part, Dualed is a decently executed and entertaining novel. I certainly had fun reading Dualed - the pages fly by quickly - but there are some weaker components that kept this from being a higher-rated reading experience. While not perfect, this is a novel that be fun and engaging, or dry and stilted (coughtheromancecough). and sometimes, Dualed falls apart when you look more closely at the worldbuilding surrounding the main story and characters. Sometimes, it's a fast-paced thrill ride of an extreme game of hide and seek. This sounds like a promising, exciting novel, doesn't it? A city of assassins who have to kill another version of themselves in order to live past age 20? Sounds almost too good to be true, right? And it is - for some aspects of this shortish novel. When the story ends, discussions willīegin about this future society where every adult is a murderer andĮvery child knows there is another out there who just might be better. Unexpected romance into a novel full of fast-paced action and though both have theĮlsie Chapman's suspenseful YA debut weaves Not only from her Alt, but also from love. If she is to have any chance of winning, she must stop running Stricken with grief and guilt, she’s no longerĬertain that she’s the best version of herself, the version worthy of aįuture. Have one month to hunt down and kill her Alt. Survival means advanced schooling, a good job,įifteen-year-old West Grayer has trained as aįighter, preparing for the day when her assignment arrives and she will City of Kersh is a safe haven, but the price of safety is high.Įveryone has a genetic Alternate-a twin raised by another family-andĬitizens must prove their worth by eliminating their Alts before their

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