Yet, at the same time, I did have some trouble. Benson’s narrative is clear and makes sense. Wells’s prose is also very strong and well-defined, I found. It’s just that Benson doesn’t know what’s going on, so neither do I. A few very small pieces of information were revealed, but I didn’t feel like Robison Wells was playing around with his readers, being coy on purpose. Other readers might have been disappointed by the non-answers and vague conclusions that this book reached, but I was satisfied. Coming from someone who doesn’t like the dystopian genre all that well, that’s saying something. Feedback is about a bunch of kids stuck in an impossible place, trying to make the best out of what’s happening, trying to live their lives as best they can.įabulous characterization aside, I was also pleased with the dystopian elements in Feedback. Everyone is portrayed in shades of gray-there really is no human villain (but plenty of robot villains). In general, Robison Wells really outdid himself with characterization and realistic personalities in this book. That, for me, is always the most important part of a book for me, whether or not a character has learned anything over the course of a novel. From the beginning of the book to the end, I saw definite growth and development in Benson, and the Benson we know at the end of Feedback is really not the same person we were introduced to on the first page of Variant. Yet over time, he attempts to prove that he isn’t some self-important jerk, that he cares for people besides himself. His biggest goal is self-preservation, and given the circumstances, I can’t say that I’d want him to be anything else. Upon close examination, I’m pretty ecstatic by how well-rounded he is. Thankfully, any hint of similarity to Veronica Roth was lost in Feedback, and it was wonderful to see the plot stand up on its own, away from dangerous comparisons.įeedback gave me the opportunity to really appreciate Benson Fisher as a character. I did like Variant more than Divergent, but it’s not fun to be constantly reminded of another storyline while you’re reading. Both novels were released within a few weeks of each other, back in 2011, and it was just a weird reading experience for me. One of my biggest complaints with the first book in this series, Variant, was how suspiciously similar to Veronica Roth’s Divergent it was. I was a bit tentative about starting this one, but Robison Wells really brought it all together for me here. Feedback by Robison Wells is one of the few books in my experience that outdistanced its prequel. Sequels are rarely as good as what came before I don’t know why, but it’s true. In my experience, Second Book Syndrome is a serious entity in the reading world.
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