Book: Atlantia

 Book: Atlantia

Author: Ally Condie

Pages: 320

This is my 149th read for the year

What Amazon Says:

For as long as she can remember, Rio has dreamed of the sand and sky above - of life beyond her underwater city of Atlantia.  But in a single moment, all Rio's hopes for the future are shattered when her twin sister, Bay, makes an unexpected choice, stranding Rio Below.  Alone, ripped away from the last person who knew Rio's true self - and the powerful siren voice she has long silenced - she has nothing left to lose.  Guided by a dangerous and unlikely mentor, Rio formulates a plan that leads to increasingly treacherous questions about her mother's death, her own destiny, and the corrupted system constructed to govern the Divide between land and sea.  Her life and her city depend on Rio to listen to the voices of the past and to speak long-hidden truths.

This was an interesting book.  I really liked Condie's Matched Trilogy that I read years ago.  This one wasn't as good as that trilogy, and I find that she tried to do too many things in a 300 page book.  I think if she would have taken her time like she did with Matched, this book would have been hire rated for me.  It took along time for her to get to the "problem" and then she sped through it.  She tried to build a world and solve a mystery in a very short book.  That is hard to do.  I liked the characters - they were all fine.  The writing wasn't great - it was fine.  It started well, and I was curious enough to see where the author was taking it.  And it had a satisfying ending.  But overall - I was hoping for more.

Stars: 3.5