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So this is one of those delightful YA fantasy-dystopias that everyone claims are a dime a dozen because they don't read them and find out how nuanced and clever they really are. Patterson's world is admittedly entirely bizarre, but she commits to it 100%, and so you as a reader never have to worry about the science behind it. You just accept it (because the storytelling is consistent), and move along with the plot.
ANYWAY.
I jokingly described this book as "The Parent Trap, only instead of a broken marriage, there's a broken moon", and I was...kinda right. The moon is broken. The world is ruined. Everyone is a twin, and if your twin dies, you are diminished, destined for a violent death yourself.
I liked the characters a lot. They were...different? Part of Patterson's world-building involved gender and hierarchy, so maybe that was part of it. It was interesting from both a reader's and writer's perspective, anyway.
I also really liked the world itself. There was only one thing that bugged me (and it's 100% personal): every single religious character was awful. Like, the actual RELIGION was awful. But there's going to be a book 2, so maybe we will see more later?
THE DIMINISHED comes out in April
ANYWAY.
I jokingly described this book as "The Parent Trap, only instead of a broken marriage, there's a broken moon", and I was...kinda right. The moon is broken. The world is ruined. Everyone is a twin, and if your twin dies, you are diminished, destined for a violent death yourself.
I liked the characters a lot. They were...different? Part of Patterson's world-building involved gender and hierarchy, so maybe that was part of it. It was interesting from both a reader's and writer's perspective, anyway.
I also really liked the world itself. There was only one thing that bugged me (and it's 100% personal): every single religious character was awful. Like, the actual RELIGION was awful. But there's going to be a book 2, so maybe we will see more later?
THE DIMINISHED comes out in April
