Fire and Flood by Victoria Scott

[Colbycomp22]

Overall I found this book to be an okay book. There were some very good elements within this book to keep me reading on to find out what happens. The main character Tella's personality faded and got a little shallow at times but I did appreciate her humor and wits. I found myself laughing at some of the things that she would say throughout the book. One element I did like about this book was the race in itself. I liked the idea that everyone was in this race to ultimately save a loved ones life and sacrifice themselves. I think this book could really touch anyone who has a loved one who is sick. Although, the main character's motives did slip away from her at times and I think she lost why she was actually in this race because of a love interest. Speaking of the love interest, Tella's man candy in the book is Guy. I'm not sure if the author felt lazy and just decided to give him the name "Guy" or what but I felt that it was a little sloppy. You don't get much of a feel of what Guy is all about either. Guy is your generic love interest who is mysterious and Tella questions whether she can trust him but she does anyways because you know, gotta have that love interest in there. I'm not going deep into the plot because I don't want to give any spoilers out or anything. Any ways, another thing I particularly liked in the story was the pandoras. I liked that the competitors could have these animal like things with them to help them through the race. Oddly enough though, I felt that the pandoras were simply put there so the characters could get out of bad situations easily or get handed to them the things they need. I also had a pet peeve about Guy which was that whenever Tella was in trouble, Guy would suddenly find her and save her. Only in a couple situations did Tella actually DO something. I noticed a little too many similarities to The Hunger Games though, which I'm sure is where the author got most of her ideas from. One thing about Tella that annoyed me was her self obsession. Throughout the whole book Tella is always concerned with how she looks and has a weird obsession with designers clothes and such which I think is odd because before she got in the race, her family didn't seem rich and it didn't seem like she even had nice things. The rest of the characters in the book aren't explored much. Tella met this little girl on the train to the race in the beginning of the book who she kind of bonded with but was never brought back up and I wonder if that was because there would be too many similarities to Katniss and Rue in The Hunger Games. Overall, I enjoyed this book, it was a fast read and kept me pretty entertained. Even though there are some issues within the book, I think that people can overlook them if they keep reading. I look forward to reading a sequel in the future and I hope that this review was helpful to anyone reading.

[AngiiLewis]

This book was a pretty good book I read it over and over like three times but it got boring after the third time so I put it down. I haven't picked it up since... The main character was too feminine for my taste. The animals also needed more description because the eagle in my head kept switching colors and size and that's not even apart of it's power... tsk tsk. There was many surprises that even rereading it, it still had me surprised. Maddox is bada$$ tho. Looking forward to the next book but please have more details.