The Hundred #2 Day 21

Presenting The Hundred #2 Day 21 by Kass Morgan.

Here is the summary of the book:

No one has set foot on Earth in centuries -- until now.
It's been 21 days since the hundred landed on Earth. They're the only humans to set foot on the planet in centuries...or so they thought. Facing an unknown enemy, Wells attempts to keep the group together. Clarke strikes out for Mount Weather, in search of other Colonists, while Bellamy is determined to rescue his sister, no matter the cost. And back on the ship, Glass faces an unthinkable choice between the love of her life and life itself.

In this pulse-pounding sequel to Kass Morgan's The 100, secrets are revealed, beliefs are challenged, and relationships are tested. And the hundred will struggle to survive the only way they can -- together.

So I haven't seen the show yet but read and reviewed The 100, the first book of the series and found it okay (not awesome) and requested Day 21 on netgalley and I must say I found it much more enjoyable. The narrative still follows the four person perspective - Clarke, Wells, Bellamy and Glass. Its still not that amazing but I believe the characters are growing on me.

The plot definitely progresses a bit here. Very predictable but very interesting. The flashbacks were not in all the chapters, something I liked very much. The story behind the Earthborns was touched upon. Clarke and Bellamy, Glass and Luke, and Wells and the Earthborn Sasha. They were quite set in the roles they played. Of course I still didn't really care much about them but yes again I say i found the story this time much more enjoyable.

While I am not too enthusiastic about the series, and there were some frustrating elements with the story along the surprises, i liked them. I observed that this is a series that reads and feels much like a visual adaptation. I understand the show is very much different than the source material so that's saying something. Morgan did a alight better job with the sequel. Although only a few instances in the story were the most important just like they were in the first book but I am very much interested to know how the 100 and the Earthborns are going to handle the people coming down in the next book.

"A much more enjoyable sequel"

Genre :      Young Adult, Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopia, Romance

Publisher: Little, Brown Books

Release Date: 16th September, 2014

My Copy: publisher and netgalley

Rate:              3/5 (Liked It)

Other Books in the series (review links):
                #1 The 100 

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The Hundred #1 The 100

Presenting The Hundred #1 The 100 by Kass Morgan.

Here is the summary of the book:

No one has set foot on Earth in centuries -- until now.

Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents -- considered expendable by society -- are being sent on a dangerous mission: to recolonize the planet. It could be their second chance at life...or it could be a suicide mission.

CLARKE was arrested for treason, though she's haunted by the memory of what she really did. WELLS, the chancellor's son, came to Earth for the girl he loves -- but will she ever forgive him? Reckless BELLAMY fought his way onto the transport pod to protect his sister, the other half of the only pair of siblings in the universe. And GLASS managed to escape back onto the ship, only to find that life there is just as dangerous as she feared it would be on Earth.

Confronted with a savage land and haunted by secrets from their pasts, the hundred must fight to survive. They were never meant to be heroes, but they may be mankind's last hope.

I saw this new cover edition on netgalley alongwith the e-arc of the sequel 'Day 21' and the irony of it all. My request for for 'Day 21' gets accepted and for 'The 100' rejected. Surprise. Surprise. So I had to pick up my copy of the 100 finally if I am to make sense on what is happening in the sequel. The CW serialized the story with the same name but I haven't seen it yet. And I loved the concept but by the by this is an average story.

Told through the perspectives of four characters - Clarke, Wells, Glass and Bellamy. Set in the far future when Earth is ravaged by the nuclear winters and the remaining alive flee to space to live out their time on the space stations orbiting the planet awaiting and hoping to get back on solid ground again. The 100 is the story of 100 juvenile delinquents chosen to be sent down to the planet as an experiment to see if Earth can be inhabited again.

With a story of this magnitude you would expect the situation to be a bit more tense, some rampant conspiracy, sci-fi heavy duty jargon and the like but all we get is heavy, sappy and angsty teen drama. The chapters oscillate between the four points of views and they each their own back story with flashbacks. They have each got some big skeletons in their closets and we see each and every part of it as the chapters progress. Thus it is rather hard to care or root for a particular character because in a sense all of them tell the same story with only different situations.

As far as the progress of the story is considered, well aside from the ongoing teen drama only two-three significant events take place. All of them pretty much expected and imminent. And no not unexpected at all. Kass Morgan did a good job with spacing out the build up in the first book but disappointed that nothing significant or surprising took place in the interim.

"Teen drama on a ravaged Earth"

Genre :      Young Adult, Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopia, Romance

Publisher: Little, Brown Books

Release Date: 18th March, 2014

My Copy: bought (ebook)

Rate:              3/5 (Liked It)

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