The Hundred Books

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The , Day 21 , Homecoming and Rebellion The books and the TV show have gone in different directions and become their own separate entities after starting off at the same point. But how does the title card in the season five finale fit in with the plot of the novels, if at all? This article contains spoilers from The season 5 finale. The television executive continued: Partially that's because when I started, there was no book finished; it was for the most part a proposal for a book and synopsis of where it was going to go.

He went on to explain: Rothenberg added about Book Two, saying: It's a brilliant series. You'd fall in love with the same character from the show and book in two different ways.

The character development as well as relationships between the characters are different in both. The show take you on an adventure. You know you are sitting behind a screen and watching. You'll laugh and cry with the characters while while reading the book, you become the character. You know their fears, love, ideas, etc.

All in all, each take you on a different story; a different experience.

My suggestion would be to not compare the book and the show. They have their own life. I wouldn't even call them siblings. More like far cousins. Try to understand the book as a baseline for the show and not the other way around. Compare the idea of characters how they came to be as they are currently and not the characters themselves or even their actions. Further, don't worry about spoilers.

As I said, the show and the book are like far cousins. See all 54 questions about The …. Lists with This Book. Jul 30, Khanh, first of her name, mother of bunnies rated it did not like it Shelves: A terrifying plan began to take shape, and his chest tightened in fear as he realized what he would have to do. But Wells knew there was no other way. There is another way. You stop being a selfish motherfucker whose brain is located in your fucking penis. This book is not a dystopian novel of a spaceship society. It's not a post-apocalyptic tale of survival.

It's not about the nitty gritty of life within a A terrifying plan began to take shape, and his chest tightened in fear as he realized what he would have to do. It's not about the nitty gritty of life within a group of the only humans left in the universe. It's a teenaged romance, where the characters' intelligence ranges anywhere from on the scale of idiocy.

Whose life, whose society, whose spaceship colony has been endangered by a boy whose thought process first filters through his dick. The world building is piss poor and vague, and more of a scenic backdrop to the overwhelming romance-centric plot instead of being the focal point. If you are a reader who prefers their reads to be overwhelmingly romantic to the exclusion of an actual plot: We're on a spaceship.

It's at least years in the future not quite sure what happened, nuclear stuff, things went boom? BAM, we're on a boat spaceship. There are a lot of criminals. Specifically, more than , but criminals all of them teenagers, ranging from 12 years old to 18 have been sentenced to go repopulate the poisonous Planet Earth to see if it's habitable or still poisoned and deadly to humans due to radiation.

This sentence might be a reprieve. It might be a death sentence. Remember the whole "the planet might be deadly" thing? It's still in the air. Our intrepid boy, Wells Jaha, decides to sacrifice himself by committing a stupid and senseless crime in order to become a criminal and get shipped off to earthpotentially sentencing himself to death so he can be with his ONE TWOO WUV. Her name is Clarke. Wells' dad is surprisingly chill about sending his only son off to his death. One of the narrators Glass, yes, her name is Glass is not even on the damn ship headed to Earth. I guess she's a part of the , but her part of the novel involves going shopping for clothes to wear to the comet viewing and mourning the loss of her relationship with her ex, Luke, and driving everyone fucking nuts by not letting anyone know until the very end why the fuck she, a Phoenician socialite because socialites are so very important on a spaceship that's the last bastion of humanity , wound up becoming a prisoner in the first place.

And when we're finally told the reason, I just wanted to slap the girl upon the head, because I have a lot of sympathy in me, but stupidity doesn't deserve it. Who will Clarke choose? Will it be dreamy dark, orphaned bad boy Bellamy? Will it be her gorgeous, wealthy, Judas of a knight in shining armor, who's actually not a knight in shining armor after all, but more of a sad, lost puppy who follows Clarke around with his tail and his brains between his legs.

Will they get to observe the sunset on earth? Will they get to hear the lovely, joyful sound of a bird singing and marvel at its musicality? Will they share the first kiss on Earth in over years? Get out of here. This isn't the book you want if you want a realistic survival tale. The crucial part to every dystopian novel is the setting, the history, the background. This book takes that concept and tells it, "Fuck you, rationality, you have no place here. I will do whatever the fuck I want and what I want is to completely ignore the background except for the very barest of details because I want this to be a love story overall, and the background is just going to get in the way of the romance.

The spaceship itself is so completely poorly defined.

The ship itself is barely mentioned in any detail. We know there are three colonies on board, Phoenix, Walden, Arcadia. We don't know how many citizens there are. We can't see the sun and the sunset even though we can see the comet and stars from on board. We don't know how the three separate colonies are sectored up, we don't know how they're sectored up, we don't know their history, or how they became that way. We don't know where the spaceship is orbiting, besides the fact that it takes about 30 minutes to get from the ship to Earth. For some reason, some sectors have more water and resources than others.

There is no society. There is no culture. For a futuristic society, there is a surprising lack of diversity. Two of the main characters both girls have reddish-blonde hair. There's a lack of resource, and because of it, people are killed. So, so many people are killed.

Most of them teenagers. The premise is that teenage delinquents are captured for the smallest of infractionsstealing food, for example, and sent to prison, called Confinement. There they stay until they're 18, where they get a Retrial, which is an absolute joke, because everyone knows that nobody ever, ever gets a Pardon. If you are less than 18, you get sent to prison until you're Which doesn't really make any sense when the government of the ship could just sentence the kids to death right away as soon as they're convicted, so save money, resources.

And forget about committing a crime over the age of You just get executed right away once you are convicted. It makes no fucking sense. You are also sentenced to die if you have more than one child, under a vague "Gaia Doctrine. There is absolutely nothing about the spaceship that's anything beyond an idea of a vaguely futuristic concept. The lack of background is utterly laughable if it wasn't so depressingly superficial. As for the Earth. Do I really need to explain the preposterousness of it all?

We don't even know how the Earth was destroyed, except for some vague notion of a nuclear winter and a war that made the earth go boom.

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There was something referred to as "the burning of North America," and that's pretty much all you get on that. There's an instance of a two-headed deer. Let's just pretend that nuclear fallout is limited to one weird animal and everything is all safe again after a few centuries. Never mind radioactive traces in water and everything, which could last for thousands of years. It's all about the romance. There's kids on board the spaceship sent to earth.

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They're from years old. Some are petty thieves, some aren't criminals at all, some are murderers. Instead of some fucked-up, panedemonic Lord of the Flies situation, we have a few hotheads among a bunch of largely calm kids who just let a rational guy whose father is the Chancellor take over. Am I supposed to believe that? And in the midst of romance, there's survival. Wait a minute, that sounds wrong. It's supposed to be, in the midst of survival, there's a romance? I said it right the first time. The romance is so incredibly fucking overwhelming. There is a love triangle.

He grabbed on to a branch for balance, gasping as he tried to force air into his lungs. There are observations of "Oh, she's sooooooooo pretty. This is supposed to be a dystopian tale! He cocked his head to the side and surveyed Clarke quizzically. The skin under her eyes was bruised with exhaustion, but the purple shadows just made them look greener. Like, what the fuck? And screw the medicine. Survival is useless if you can't have the one you love!

There was no drug strong enough to repair a broken heart. So you'd just let a poor girl die because you're too heartbroken, you selfish prick? There is so much idiocy in the name of love in this book From endangering the entire ship to potentially save a girl to potentially killing yourself so you can be with her to ignoring all common sense. And the girl left on board the spaceship is no better. Her name is Glass lol wtf, Glass? Instead of running to her mother to say goodbye, Glass goes to see her ex-boyfriend. Glass claims to be "desperate to see her mother," but there's no proof of it because despite the fact that she might be recaptured at any fucking moment, she takes that ONE opportunity to see her ex.

Glass is not as sharp as, well Glass is in fucking Confinement. She has been for six months. She knows she's going to die. If I knew I were going to die, I'd be thinking of my own mortality, not spending all that time mooning over a boy. As an example of how idiotic Glass's thought process goes, this is what she thinks upon seeing Luke again: The remnants of the book is rendered utterly unsalvageable by the farcical actions of the main characters. I didn't have any trouble distinguishing between the four narrators, despite the fact that they are overwhelmingly similar in their idiocy.

Not recommended, unless you want love shoved down your throat. View all comments. Aug 28, Julie rated it it was ok Shelves: I'm gonna feel like a dick for saying this, but: I can really only recommend the book for die-hard fans of the show which is what I have become, ahahahahahahaha sob and who may want more from their faves, specifically POV c I'm gonna feel like a dick for saying this, but: I can really only recommend the book for die-hard fans of the show which is what I have become, ahahahahahahaha sob and who may want more from their faves, specifically POV chapters from Clarke, Bellamy, and Wells.

Literally every single character has some kind of darkness in them which I appreciated. There are some extra worldbuilding details that weren't in the show either, which I dig. Again, my main enjoyment came only from having a predetermined attachment to these characters from the show. Nothing much happens in the book the first season covers soooo much more ground ; the romances are kinda rushed and slipshod; Clarke and Glass are pretty fuckin' awful as characters because they spend the entire book mooning over their respective boyfriends I really missed the strong, resilient, 'has no time for boys because fuck this nonsense we need to survive' Clarke of the show.

Whereas the TV show features: It's a quick read, I blazed through it in one day. I'm interested to see what happens in the second book, at least, considering how the TV series and book series already vastly diverge from each other. View all 47 comments. Jun 03, Faye, la Patata rated it did not like it Shelves: My recaps of the show! I may have got this wrong, so please correct me if I got it mixed up!

As I have mentioned over and over again in my reviews, Dystopia and Post-Apocalyptic remain as my favourite genres ever, so it's a no-brainer that I really wanted to get this book as soon as it was out. I was expecting these all! Like many others before by Kass Morgan It left me disappointed It started with a bang. We're introduced to Clarke, imprisoned somewhere in a space settlement, for allegedly doing a heinous crime, a crime which was also related to her parents'.

We're informed that in this world, as soon as a prisoner turns 18, he is granted a trial and can either go free or be put to death. Fortunately, Clarke has been chosen as one of the hundred teenage prisoners to be sent to Earth, their previous they left three hundred years ago due to the Cataclysm, an nuclear-something-radiation-something event that crippled their planet.

They are to be sent there to find out if the world is still liveable, and if they survive, they will be pardoned of their felonies. Yup, I was ecstatic myself. The general plot sounded like something that could attract A LOT of twists and conspiracies! And then the romance came Which pretty much ruined this book for me. What would you feel if you were stuck in a planet, all by yourself and 99 other strangers okay, make that 97 because OF COURSE there has to be a love interest and that mandatory best friend , a planet, which, may I remind you, has been labeled toxic due to the immense radiation in the past?

You'd think about survival You'd at least TRY to set aside your feelings and think about how you could live for another day, right? Any rational being would. Unfortunately, Clarke and the rest of the three characters, which all have their own chapters, by the way holy shit, four POVs?! What could have been a really good sci-fi, action, post-apocalyptic dystopia turned into one mushy drama-rama, like those telenovelas from Latin America that my parents used to watch. It made me RAGE. You're a boy and you weren't supposed to be in this operation, but you risked your life in order to "protect" the girl you supposedly "love" but hates you because you betrayed her in the past.

A lot of people have been killed on impact, a lot are injured, and a lot are dying. I felt rage each and every chapter as soon as they got to Earth. Sure, there were some fighting over food, over equipment, over medicine, but those were in passing and in the larger scheme of things, were put aside for the romance aspect. The unnecessary, annoying part took a large percentage of the book that it drove me bat-shit insane.

If I wanted drama, I have other avenues for that like my life, for instance and I didn't sign up for it especially when the synopsis is all about Danger! Fuck you very much. Here's a very memorable quote that would make you want to punch a brick wall: Clarke rose with a groan, her muscles stiff from their hike yesterday. But it was a good kind of pain; she'd walked through a forest that hadn't been seen by a single human being for years. Her stomach squirmed as she thought about another distinction she'd inadvertently earned — the first girl to kiss a boy on Earth since the Cataclysm.

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Awesome priorities, by the way. Yeah, like I said, there were some fighting here and there, but generally, all of it were just idle stuff. And when exciting events started to happen, BOOM! The writing was also very juvenile. I did not like it at all. I found no depth in it, and was very telling than showing. There were four narrators Clarke, Wells, Bellamy, and Glass and chapters rotated among them, each one having a present and a past thing, which made the flow of the story absolutely terrible and wonky.

Because of that, the characters lacked personalities as well.

The characters were complete simpletons. Girl offends guy she kissed, he storms away, and she cries about it — all in 2 pages. Aside from that, they were just flat, annoying, and stupid. She's this holier-than-thou character, making herself the kindest of the group when I found her very self-righteous. He's borderline, Edward-creepy with his quest to make Clarke fall in love with him again yes, of course!

Because that is SO obviously important! Here she is, just escaped from a fate supposedly worse than death, and the first person she goes to is of course Who she found is with another girl. I see reviews where they are praising the world-building, and I'm left scratching my head because I'm wondering if we even read the same books.

Unless you count that single sentence explaining there was a sort of nuclear-ish war years ago and a paragraph of the shady judicial system as world-building, then yeah, okay, fine, but I'd have to disagree. How they even got to space and built their orbiting settlement were never even explained in depth in fact, I'd wager it was never mentioned at all. However, they find themselves at the mercy of Vice Chancellor Rhodes, who is willing to kill to get into one of the dropships. There, they meet her father, Max Walgrove, who is the leader of the colony.

Octavia is at Mount Weather, having been rescued by Max and his people from a group of renegades. These renegades are responsible for the attacks on the Max and his people promise that they will continue helping the , and will provide further support once the rest of the Colony arrives. At this point, they find dropships from the Colony falling from the sky. Wells eventually realizes that there is something familiar about Bellamy and Octavia; ultimately, he discovers that their mother was Melinda Blake, the woman his father had loved before marrying Wells' mother for the sake of his career.

This discovery leads Wells and Bellamy to realize that they are paternal half-brothers. After the dropships crash, Clarke, Bellamy, and Wells lead a rescue party to the crash site, allowing Clarke and Wells to reunite with Glass and Luke. Clarke ponders leaving the camp to search for her parents. The Chancellor, still in a coma, remains trapped in the Colony above Earth. Vice Chancellor Rhodes takes control over the community on Earth, planning to force Luke to execute Bellamy, as a warning to anyone attempting to challenge him. With Sasha's help, Clarke and Wells escape with the wounded Bellamy.

One of Rhodes' men kills Sasha when she tries to get more supplies. As Mount Weather prepares for Rhodes' attack, some of the Colonists revolt and join their benefactors against Rhodes. Clarke, Bellamy, and Wells are captured during the initial exchange, but another faction of Earthborns defeat and capture Rhodes before he can execute Bellamy. Later, more colonists from other dropships arrive, and one of the arrivals informs Wells that his father was still in a coma, with only a few hours of oxygen left when their dropship departed.

Before Sasha's funeral, Clarke reunites with her parents at Mount Weather. She reconciles with Wells but will not resume their past relationship because she is romantically involved with Bellamy. A fourth novel, Rebellion , was released on December 6, However, a group of self-proclaimed "Protectors" infiltrates their camp and abducts several of its inhabitants, including Wells, Glass and Octavia.

As Clarke and Bellamy organize a rescue team to take their new enemy down, their relationship is put to the ultimate test when Bellamy doesn't think Clarke trusts him. Eventually, the rescue team and prisoners are able to take the Protectors down as a team effort and in the aftermath, Clarke and Bellamy make up and with her parents' blessing, he asks her to marry him. Publisher Weekly commented that Morgan's flair for the dramatic in The "can be forced, but it's easy to be drawn in". Kirkus Reviews commented Day 21 is "faster paced than" its predecessor.

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