Slated: Book 1: 1/3 (SLATED Trilogy)

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The first part of the book was really dull. I understand that Terry was trying to put us in the mindset that Kyla had to relearn everything, but honestly, it did NOTHING for story. What's the significance of her learning how to open the car door or doing the dishes and cutting her hand with a knife? And I'd understand if i was just a few examples before moving along with the story, but Terry spent about half the book telling us about Kyla's relearning experiences, and none of those contributed to the story development. Consequently, the writing is the driest monotone out there and there is pretty much absolutely nothing to keep you going. Like, how am I supposed to stay awake interested when much of the book sounds like this: Her consciousness appeared. She has two past. One is up until she's 10 years old named Lucy. Lucy was a happy girl living with her dad (and mom actually but the memories of her mom didn't appear at all). Then one day she was kidnapped by Anti Governor Terrorist ( AGT). AGT was an organization that attempted to take down the Governor today. The Governor today was awful. It's leaded by a prime minister and helped by so many Inspectors . The Inspectors was feared by people in country as they always seemed to take people out then the people theirself gone. So the AGT took little Lucy for being the terrorist, the key of its success. Lucy was taught to be a left handed. This personality wasn't SLATED . So she gradually knew about her past when she was in AGT in 11-15 years old.

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So we can assume that Kyla is a terrorist, although Slateds are never told what their actual crime was. There is so much mystery to this one. So much suspense and while readers may look at this book as purely Dystopian, it is so much more than that. It will appeal to readers of every genre, even those who like steamy romance. When her memories gradually revealed. She met this man named Nico. Nico was likely the AGT 's leader. So Kyla joined to AGT to follow its plan to make a better England without Inspectors . Then in the end, she found out she was being used by AGT. She wished to be a suicide bomber. Here I start with the starting. It started slow in a good way. It gave me a big question mark in my head, how can Teri Terry end this if the story was went out of the storyline? The slow pace continued in about one third of the book. Then everything came up, every puzzles was revealed and placed. All about Kyla's past was already settled.

In this book, don't hope for romance. Romance was such a bullshit. Her romantic partner ended betray her. Then an unpredictable character that never be counted at first became the good guy. OMG, it's so twisted I couldn't even think about it to be like this. While I knew from the prologue and the nightmares that those things had something to do with why she was different, it doesn't give me much to go on. I guess that she built a wall to protect herself, but that's about it. Why did she like to draw? Why wouldn't anyone let her take art? Why all of a sudden they let her draw? Why were some of her artwork taken away? Why did she have to hide some of them? And why is it bad to be left handed? All of these questions. Nothing was answered.Slated kids must be retaught everything from the fact that knives are sharp to the need to look both ways before crossing the street. Kyla has forgotten a lot, but starts to discover she has some memories and traits leftover from her old self. As the story progresses she realizes she knows how to drive, is left-handed, good at drawing, and hates broccoli. Kyla is seriously the most colorless, commonplace, dead, drab, drudging, dull, flat, ho hum, humdrum, insipid, interminable, irksome, lifeless, monotonous, moth-eaten, mundane, nothing, nowhere, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, stereotyped, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, threadbare, tiresome, tiring, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, unvaried, vapid, wearisome (no I did not just copy the thesaurus entry for boring... heh) character out there. After being SLATED , she lived with her adoptive parents and another SLATED sister. Her adoptive mother, Sandra was the daughter of the first prime minister who created the Inspectors and all the rule. She found List of Missing People ( LMP ) through her adoptive sister, Amy. Amy's boyfriend, Jazz, had a cousin named, Mac. Mac was one of the LMP . So she found out about her past's identity. There were so many moments where I found myself feeling like I was Kyla, desperate to understand the hold that the government had on the world. People are disappearing. People are scared of the authorities, and best of all, I think people in this book are scared of their own power to make a difference. It was scary, because it felt so real. And it very well could become real. That's the best kind of fiction. Girl keeps on jumping, and I don't know why. For some reason, every time she says this she jumped, I keep on imagining her doing that crazy jump shot and I can't help but giggle.

But getting beyond the dystopian aspect, the book is just thoroughly readable. It's engaging right from the start, and Kyla is an intriguing main character. She's fascinating because she doesn't know who she is now or who she was before, but she lives in fear of her unknown past - what must she have done to be slated? The reader is right there with her, wondering if Kyla was part of a terrorist organization, wondering if she was an abused child who turned the tables - wondering what could possible have gotten this bright, artistic, seemingly sweet child slated. As a character with no past, she could have seemed substance-less, but she didn't at all. In fact, she is a sharp counterpoint to many of the other slateds around her, and she only becomes more complex and intriguing (and even more mysterious) as the story goes on.

What was given to us, in terms of worldbuilding, was very detached from emotion - as was the rest of the novel. Terrorist groups vs the government. That is basically it. We are yet to find out what they're warring over (I suspect this will be explained in the next books). So there's like a love triangle now, with Aiden and Ben. WHAT?????? I have no idea why Kyla/Rain/Riley still likes him. Like seriously. In the first book, their romance was just cute, in the second book, they only had like one scene together, and she still held onto hope, and in the final book, she only meets him at the end and she's all over him again, and even when he betrays her, she still ends up choosing him, the starcrossed lover, instead of the super awesome guy, Aiden, who loves her and cares for her. Actually really cares for her, unlike Ben who runs off at the end. Okay, maybe she does actually end up with Aiden at the end, since they hug and Ben is gone, but I thought that it was a total butthole thing to do to just drive away one day. Likes seriously. Our protagonist is really too perfect to be realistic for my taste. Not only is she able to control her emotions but the memory wiping apparently was not 100% successful on her, since she has nightmares reminding her of her former life. And she is the best runner of her school, a skillful artist with the pencil, she is equally proficient with both hands, she is called too smart and nosy for her own good by multiple characters, she gets it on with her love interest, the hot new teacher is only interested in her, people just confide secrets to her...