Swifty03 I am struggling as well. All the on page characters are boring, or unbelivable. The MC Paige is pretty passive. The first third of the story was mainly a massiv infodumping.
As I tried to push further than page 173 I met an inner resistance. I normally read fantasy or Sci-Fi, so the book should be right up my alley, but the dull writing, Paige strolling aimlessly around and Warden not telling anything, not even what the different pills are for, is frustrating. The clearvoyance powers are unnessesarely overcomplicatet with all their fancy names. And the concentration camp Sheoul 1 does not make sense at all. Why are the preformers the ones with all the food and goods to trade? Why are they all malnurished if they have to fight the monsters? How are 40 red jackets every decade enough to do the job?
I am also not a fan that everyone - except Warden - tells Paige everything for free or gifts her food or information while she withholds every piece of info she could contribute. I also think Paige is badly written. She is supposed to be a total syndicate badass, but she comes across as a childish spoiled bratt not knowing how to pick her fights. Convenient she is the very special one. She would be dead by now, if the Rephs treated her like everyone else. I whish Jaxon, her gang leader, was there to be an active protagonist and shake things up, coordinating a resistant.
