Book #57: Defiance, by CJ Redwine

I think it’s important for me to state, for the record, that when I compare two things to each other, it’s not because I think they are the same. It’s because they make me FEEL the same. I read a tumblr post by Sara Reese Brennan once about how it annoys her when people compare her Demon Trilogy to the TV show SUPERNATURAL. It’s about two brothers, saving people, hunting things. But it doesn’t remind me of Supernatural at all. Because it makes me feel entirely different.

So when I say that CJ Redwine’s DEFIANCE reminded me of THE HANDMAID’S TALE, I don’t mean because it threw around the word “commander” a lot, had ridiculous gender roles and involved some truly skeevy arranged marriages. It did all of those things, but WITHER, which does them too, made me feel entirely different. DEFIANCE made me fall in love with a powerful girl, who started to understand what she was capable of, and then set the world on fire.

( SPOILERS! )

8/10 for being a fight, but a worthwhile one.