If you think the Tuesday Next books are too gimmicky, then you’re going to want to avoid this one as I believe it blows that series out of the water gimmick-wise.

While I did enjoy some of the events of the ending, I really had to force myself to get there, and honestly that’s not something I really like to do when I read these days. Yes, I used to be a “have to finish everything I start” reader but now I’m an “hey I’m old and there isn’t that much time and I don’t want to die not having gotten to read as much GOOD stuff as possible so if it sucks, I’m stopping” reader.

This is a society based on color and the color that you can see is therefore the color that you “are” and the amount (percentage) of that color you are able to see determines your prestige, and both those items determine your EXACT position in society. What jobs you can have, who you can marry, etc. The world is ruled by a certain book of rules and infractions/demerits are cumulative. So what’s the obvious thing right? Time for a revolution.

A lot of really obvious metaphor here. I remember I loved the first two Tuesday Nexts, didn’t care for book 3, thought book 4 was OK…and just did not need to read more. (He could have stopped at one and had a really original book out there. Did he have to play it out?)

This series I am going to stop at book 1 as it’s already boring me… In addition, at least the Tuesday Next books made you think about other great books, or google names that you couldn’t place to figure out where in literature they were from. None of that extra in this one. (And it’s definitely going to be a series, the names of the next two books were listed in the back.)