Crossed Book Review

Book: Crossed

Author: Ally Conde

Pages: 367

Publisher: Speak

Publish Date: March 12 2013

Start Date: 29th January 2018

End Date: 20th February 2018

Good reads Rating 2

I want to start by saying that I have seen a lot of mixed - bad reviews on this book which I know I’m going to like the boook 

It’s a very slow start but I am enjoying it. I’m not normally a massive fan of having more than person narrating a book. 

I really like how the each alternate chapters are either Ky or Cassia and that even though they are both doing completely different jobs that there is such similarities between what they are doing. 

I saw a review on Goodreads about the book where the person said she felt that it didn’t really push the story along and was just filler material while I can understand what she’s saying in some places it did feel like that but I felt that both Cassia and Ky’s journey had enough intensity that you just carry on and it’s one of those books that I enjoyed reading. 


*I am at page 176 as I write this next bit*. For most Cassia’s chapters I have found her a bit annoying and I like Cassia normally. I think in some cases so far she has been headstrong and independent, a friend and a leader, but then she has become someone who is clueless and dumb. And I hate it. She is supposed to be this strong woman who is going after her man but is becoming stupid along the way. If things are put to her by other people she shoots them down but if they are her own they are the best

*200 pages in*
I am starting to struggle with the book. I have about 150/160 pages left until I’ve finished reading the book but it’s getting harder and harder. And I can understand why some people don’t like this book as much as the first book. And what is with the page chapters dead in the middle of the book. The book started of so well but is seriously going down hill. 

I can see why people don’t like the book as much as the first. Even though I was just skimming over some of the chapters I started feeling disconnected from the characters more and more and that’s why I started skimming pages. I would have liked them to have stayed in the Society because they made so many decisions for them anyway and forced them to be together that if they stayed in the society it could have been different. 

I admit that I skim read a lot of chapters, but read the last 5 fully. I felt that the ending of the book brought it back up a little. I think it would have been a bit better if Ally Conde had them looking for each other a little longer. I ended up feeling like the book ended up just dragging on even after a good start.