@doctorfusionbebop: Some 17 y. o. chick named Dee Guerrera was just sent to Alcatraz 2.0 for killing her stepsister. So, how long do you think she'll last? @morrisdavis72195: I hope she meets justice! She'll get what's coming to her! BWAHAHA! @EltonJohnForevzz: Me? I think Dee's innocent. And I hope she can survive. WELCOME TO THE NEAR FUTURE, where good and honest citizens can enjoy watching the executions of society's most infamous convicted felons, streaming live on The Postman app from the suburbanized prison island Alcatraz 2.0. When seventeen-year-old Dee Guerrera wakes up in a haze, lying on the ground of a dimly lit warehouse, she realizes she's about to be the next victim of the app. Knowing hardened criminals are getting a taste of their own medicine in this place is one thing, but Dee refuses to roll over and die for a heinous crime she didn't commit. Can Dee and her newly formed posse, the Death Row Breakfast Club, prove she's innocent before she ends up wrongfully murdered for the world to see? Or will The Postman's cast of executioners kill them off one by one?
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I think this post might be short. I was disappointed with this book. I really was. The blurb set up such an interesting storyline that when I opened the door I felt lied to. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the blurb is entirely misleading or false advertising, but the concept that I assumed -which is the keyword here, guys- I would get a face full of, was barely a chapter. Barely a page.
I did not feel connected to any of the characters. Neither the stepsister or the narrator (who I really thought acted younger then her intended age). I did not enjoy the small little village where everything took place as it felt not entirely thought out/ flat. I thought the writing was okay, not something I would write home about, but decent enough to finish out the book.
I think the issue with the novel itself, where now I am debating if I want to pretend its a “one-off” and not part of a series, is that there was an expectation of more. There’s a thousand different ways of which this storyline, this idea, this environment could have been great. And, yet, it just collapsed upon the idea of what *could* be.
Ultimately, I closed the book feeling disappointed and leaving with a sense of un-fulfillment. And, that is something, you guys probably know and understand, if worst then finishing a book sometimes.
