Adam takes her out of the room.  At first she’s all defiant and shit over…whatever the hell is going on, but then he touches her as he leads her around all of a sudden she’s blushing all over and spouting off extra metaphors, because she just wants so bad to swoon.  No, really. I have…

Juliette opens up this chapter, for no reason that I can see, reminding us of all the things she can remember from her presumably good childhood.  It’s basically our normal modern day.  And then the next paragraph: I remember being 10 years old when we couldn’t ignore the food shortages anymore and things got so…

Juliette mopes more about how no one can touch her and her life sucks. I only know now that the scientists are wrong. The world is flat. I know because I was tossed right off the edge and I’ve been trying to hold on for 17 years. I’ve been trying to climb back up for…

In chapter three, the two characters take a shower. In chapter four, they share 19 lines of dialogue on five subjects.  So, you know, not exactly anything deep or informative.  Then we find out their names are Adam and Juliette.  The fuck book?  Seriously, what the fuck?  What is this?  Why has nothing happened yet? …

This review was originally written and posted in July 2013. This book has 50 chapters.  50!  We’re not going to spend ten weeks on this thing, so I’ll be doing more than one chapter in a post.  The book opens with your main character telling us that she’s been in isolation for 264 days.  Not…