The 100 by Kass Morgan

The 100 by Kass Morgan

Happy New Year everyone. Hope you all had a great Christmas? Traditionally eaten too much like me? 

OMG! I need to get the next one out! Such a good book. So when I finished my last book, I wanted to read something a bit more non- educational. I didn't want to read anything to do with school. The 100 has been sitting on the side for ages and finally I got round to picking it up. 

What would you do for love? Normally I hate love stories but if you weave it into a dystopian novel- I might become interested. 

I've been wanting to read this series for ages. You can tell because I've had this book out since September! Well finally I've read it. I was never able to watch the TV series because it was on Sky. It looked right up my street though. 

A colony has spent 300 years living on a ship in space after having evacuated earth after nuclear problems. However, resources are starting to run out on the space ship so they want to return to Earth. However they're not sure whether it's safe or not because it may still be contaminated. 

Recently teenagers have been sent to prison for minor crimes and on their 18th birthday they are usually euthanised. However, things are about to change as they are sent to earth as an experiment. It's a similar idea to the Lord of the Flies I suppose- just without the killing. Apart from that it's such a unique story line. I love it. 

"While he might be cutting the creature's life short... It had lived every moment of that life completely free"

The novel switches between many different narratives of whom you gain a relationship. Bellamy breaks onto the sub ship when it is about to take off to save his little sister and go with her to earth. However, this brother and sister relationship is obscure because on the ship, no one is allowed more than one child. Clarke was in love with Wells on the ship but on earth she is distracted by other things. However you do not find out everything about her until the very end when everything then makes sense. Wells sacrifices his own criminal free record to save Clarke. Glass is the odd one out who is about to be sent to earth when she escapes to be with her true love Luke but is life better aboard the ship or on contaminated earth? 

"He wasn't the brave knight who'd come to rescue the princess. He was the reason she'd been locked away in the dungeon"

Each character has their own personal journey which is really explored in the 100. They all want to save each other. You want them all to succeed in their targets. 

It is such a good but simplistic book and tomorrow seems to far away to wait to get the next one out. Hope you enjoyed this book review.