Exist Review

Exist by Jennifer Cazey Daniels (385 pages)
My Rating: 3 Stars
Date Read: 28 June 2016

Synopsis:

They called us Benders, I preferred the term extraordinary. I suppose the world feels better when it can classify things and put us in neat, tiny boxes. We were far more than a word or classification. But it made it easy for people to find us, to segergate us and watch us. I wasn't like all the rest; there was something different about me, a path I was to follow, great plans people saw for what I would become and do one day, until, he (Aden) broke my heart and I ceased to exist. I'm Ember. You can't see me or hear me, but I can see and hear you. I can read your thoughts, know your intentions, motives and emotions. To the world I no longer exist and I need your help. If you're reading this then somehow we've made contact. I need you to help me exist again so that I can save the one I love and the world.

My Review;

This book has a super interesting concept about super powered humans and how they may interact with the world. The characters, for the most part, were intriguing, though there were points where I didn't really understand the motivation about why they did the things they did.

The biggest issue I had with this was the inconsistent writing. It would change temporally quite a bit and there were some issues with paragraph breaks as well. Whenever a new person speaks, it should have a new line break, but most of the time, this was not the case. A lot of the characters had similar tones as well, so it made it difficult to tell who was speaking at times.

One piece of advice I would give is to slow down. Some things happen too quickly, especially at the beginning, so if the author slowed down, took the time to get into the "why" of the actions instead of rushing to get to the next plot point, I think the book would greatly benefit from it.

Overall, super cool concept and ideas with where the story is going!

I gave this a three star review, not because I didn't like it, I did. But there is work that needs to go into it for me to really enjoy it more.