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has confirmed that there will be no love triangle, I could kiss her. This is an AMAZING book, If you don't read it, you're flat out crazy, It's gory and dark but oh so pretty! I LOVE this book, And I can't wait until I get to hold my own copy!! So, The Murder Complex is Lindsay Cummings debut novel and it's had a lot of talk surrounding it, both bad and good.
I went into this only having a very very vague idea of what it was about and it was completely different from what I expected, though not in a bad way! The Murder Complex is a pretty dark read, which you can probably gather just from the title.
This book is pretty bloody and gory, so be aware of that, It's a pretty dark dystopian but personally I enjoy those best!
This book is told in dual POV's, between Meadow, who's the daughter of a fisherman with two siblings to care and watch out for, and Zephyr who's a Ward, which is what they call orphans.
Meadow was very tough and kickass, I liked that she was a fierce female main character! I liked that we got to see both these characters backgrounds through the dual perspectives but at the same time I feel like the POV changes and short chapters hindered me from fully connecting to the characters.
I ended up connecting with Zephyr sort of towards the end, but I didn't really connect with Meadow which was one of my main issues with the book, along with the romance.
I felt the romance was too rushed and happened way too fast for me to even connect with their relationship,
I really loved how actionpacked this book was and how many surprises there were! So many plot twists and heart racing moments! There was always something going on and it kept me intrigued and kept me wanting to keep turning the page to find out what would happen next! I enjoyed this book overall, great darker dystopian!
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LOOK! IT FINALLY HAS A COVER, after months of waiting, I finally get a cover, Yippy! And it's looks EPIC, I mean, seriously. It is awesome. I love the fact that they sketched in a face instead of photographed it, It looks like something out of a comic book, And the colour is so bold, so eyecatching, I just I love. I love. Thank you to whoever made this, Hopefully they won't change the cover for the sequel, because I seriously adore what this books got going on,
And now I sound like I'm hitting on a book, . . My life is very sad, . .
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When I first heard the title of The Murder Complex I immediately thought of one thing: Blood, The title stayed true to the book because let me say, The Murder Complex was one gruesome read!
TMC The Murder Complex is Lindsay Cummings debut novel and while lots of debut novels can go wrong, this one went right! Like every book, it had its flaws but within those flaws it has potential.
When Lindsay contacted me asking if I wanted an ARC of her book a few months ago, I could not turn down the Harper Collins authors request, It seemed like such a compelling read that even if she never contacted me, I would probably still pick it up in stores once it comes out Juneth,
The plot line for The Murder Complex was such captivating dystopian read, Fans of Legend, Divergent and The Hunger Games are bound to gravitate toward The Murder Complex, TMC takes place in duel point of view between Meadow Woodsen and Zephyr James, Both characters story lines were interesting and very different, While Meadow was trained to survive this corrupt world where the murder rate is higher then the birth rate, Zephyr is an orphan ward who keeps his head low and tries not to attract any attention.
I liked the alternating POVs, my only criticism with them is that the chapters could only bepages long at certain points and sometimes I wouldve liked to stay in one of their heads a bit longer.
But then again, it was nice that the chapters werent too long because it made it a faster read with nonstop action,
I dont recommend this book to those of you who are squeamish about blood because this book is VERY bloody and graphic, Meadow and Zephyr both kill people throughout the course of the novel but while Zephyr feels remorse about his kills, Meadow doesnt, It makes me think that Meadow is a psychopath, I wouldve liked to seen a bit more emotion come from her, not just toughness even though she does break down at one point in the book, I also would of liked to see some more character development between the two, I felt that the beginning of Zephyr and Meadows relationship was a bit forced but it toned down toward the middle of the novel and I liked that a lot.
Sometimes in novels a relationship needs to take the backseat in order to really focus at the matter at hand, Except if its a romance book, then thats okay! I do ship these two characters together they really seem to care about each other and at the end of the day, thats really all that matters.
They balance each other out Zephyr teaches Meadow how to trust while Meadow teaches Zephyr how to survive,
The whole deal with the Initiation and The Murder Complex was VERY interesting because I did not see half of those plot twists coming, even if some of them could be predictable.
I do wish the world was explained a bit more, but then again, thats part of the whole mystery,
Honestly, I would never want to live in a world like this, THATS WHY THIS BOOK IS SO INTERESTING, It makes the unbelievable, believable, If a person gets killed right in front of you in this dystopian world, you barely give it a second glance, But in our world if somebody gets killed right in front of you You run as fast as your little fangirl/boy feet can take you then you get help and some therapy!
The Murder Complex captivates its readers with its fast paced storyline and powerful characters.
In certain aspects of the book, there is definitely room for improvement but over all, this book series has so much potential and I can definitely see it going far.
Keep up the awesome work Lindsay!
P, S. I cant believe such a nice and lovely woman like Lindsay could write such a mind boggling and bloody book GO Lindsay!
I give The Murder Complex/stars.
Make sure you pick it up at your local bookstore June,!
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“Count to three, Relax your mind. Now survive. ”
WOW seriously, just wow, I have no idea why I was so hesitant to start this book, It had me on the edge of my seat, FREAKING OUT every other page, I had NO idea what was going to happen, I felt myself second guessing myself, there were so many twists and turns, I LOVE THIS BOOK
It was so, . . gritty and violent and insane crazy and the characters I love Zephyr and Meadow
Of course, the cliffhanger just had to be a huge bitch, so I will definitely be getting my hands on book two as soon as freaking possible.
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IG: ash, reads Twitter ReadsAsh I had a nagging sense of familiarity while reading this book, and it wasn't until the end that I finally realized what it was.
This book reminded me of sitelinkThe Bone Season, and if you know me and my history with that book, . . it's not a good thing, This was such a disappointment to me, because this had been one of my most eagerly anticipated books for,
It is an overhyped book that underdelivered, It was technically perfect while being completely devoid of emotion, with a convoluted, actionpacked plot that made largely no sense, The world building is chock full of strange terminology minus the glossary, and the world itself is without much context, without much sense, The characters are forgettable, they are merely generically likeable and utterly lacking in personality, It is heavy on a completely unnecessary romance, with a tremendous amount of instalove, And most importantly, however actionpacked it was, I just found myself completely, utterly bored,
I wanted to DNF this book at, I trudged on. I wanted to DNF at, I forced myself on. And honestly, I could have DNFed this atbecause this book just bored me to all hell, and I did not give a single fuck about any of the characters.
The book was so incredibly long and dull that I did not really care about what happened in the end,
Here are some of my problems with this book
The Overly Complicated Plot: It is never, ever a good thing when halfway through the book, I have to go look back at the summary because I wasn't sure what I was reading.
Judge my intelligence how you will, but I found this book to be a tremendous confusionpacked mess, Very, very briefly, it goes something like this: We have Meadow, a girl, who lives on a steamboat with her dad and siblings, We have Zephyr, an orphan boy who lives with flelow orphans, picking up bodies, For some reason, there are a whole lot of bodies to be picked up, There's a lot of people just dying, and it's no big deal at all, Meadow is trying to get a job, She gets it by killing a girl and the job is never, ever mentioned again, People kill each other. Again, nobody cares. Zephyr acts really tragic, he speaks mysteriously about his "secret, " We have no idea what the secret is, He dreams of a "moonlit girl" with silvery blonde hair who is gasp Meadow, They run into each other several times, purely out of coincidence, They fall in love. They go chill on a boardwalk because what else are you supposed to do when you're not picking up the corpses on the street,
Zephyr whispers sweet nothings into Meadow's ears, He tries to kill her,
Yeah, And then there's all this running away and lots of killing and lots of blood and lots of conspiracies,
And we're not eveninto the book yet, Forget the killings in the book, I was about to be killed by boredom, I don't even fucking know what a Murder Complex is until aroundinto the book, The summary lies. Big time.
The Romance: I understand teenaged hormones, I understand attraction, and I don't throw the word instalove around unless I feel strongly that it exists: this book is so utterly, completely packed with instalove and unnecessary romance.
My breath sort of stops, right there in my lungs,There is a time and place for love, and it is not in a dystopia, and the words "I LOVE YOU" should not be uttered when you've seen the person all of a few hours, when the book is not evenfinished.
Standing behind the glass, . . is the person I swear Ive waited my entire life to see,
I should be mad, I should be angry and embarrassed,Take Zephyr. The instalove is strong with him, He dreams of a girl, . .
Instead, all I can think is I might love this girl,
The are out tonight, But the arent what I want to see right now,"Moonlit girl, " "Silveryblonde" girl. Moonlit girl. MOONLIT GIRL. It is repeated so many times throughout the book that I was sick of it, and I was sick of Zephyr, For fuck's sakes, you have more things to worry about than a girl who appears in your dreams,
Its the moon. The moon that reminds me of the moonlit girl,
My moonlit girl. Shes the cure to my nightmares, the one thing that helps me feel safe when I cant even trust my own dreams to harbor me,
There arent many things I want,
But, I want the moonlit girl,
" maybe theres a chance shes been dreaming of me, too, "Meadow is no better, for all her claims of being a tough killer,
He is beautiful, Shaggy brown hair sweeps across his face, and I am shocked at how bad I want to touch it,She shouldn't be thinking this while she's watching the guy BLEED TO DEATH,
It is the kind of love that I, with my practical mind, hates the most, Zephyr's love for Meadow is that of infatuation, that of predestination, that of fate, I don't believe in fated love, I believe that love should be based on friendship, trust, it should be worked on, it should be earned, Zephyr's instantaneous love for Meadow is so completely impractical, so completely unbelievable, so utterly girlish in terms of a serious, bloodfilled novel such as this, This book aims to be Nikita, if so, it should really just leave out the sudden, inexplicable romance that truly plays no role in the plot at all.
The Big Event: This is not a spoiler, just something that happened in the past that led up to this future, Let's say that you are a researcher at a lab, You just discovered a new drug, Do you get it onto the market right away No, Fuck no. We have a fucking thing called the Food and Drug Administration, It takesyears to get a drug onto the market, You need fucking drug trials, You need fucking human trials, You need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it is completely safe for human consumption, You don't fucking get approval from the government to pump it through the water system right away for the consumption of somemillion odd Americans, Americans would never fucking go for that shit, Hell, we have enough complaints about the current water supply being infused with fluoride for the good of our teeth, Fuck that shit. There's a thing called the Drug Approval Process and it doesn't get anywhere as convenient as tings happened in this book, Look it up.
The World Building and Terminology: The Dark Times, The Silent Hour. Nanites. Pins. Leeches. Fluxing this, Chumhead that. The Catalogue Dome. Creds. The Initiative. The Plague. The Pulse. Wards. Placement Tests. My head was spinning. It's not even strange terminogy, but it makes no sense out of context, and there is very little context, You know sometimes in college, you have a brain fart and accidentally wander into a huge lecture hall that's not your own ok, maybe just me and you're sitting there sweating buckets, wondering why the fuck nothing makes sense That's how I felt about this book.
I was completely immersed into a wellbuilt world that has very little background,
Ok, so we're in the future, there was an event called a preFall that was never really explained, People are dying. Again, no explanation at all for quite some time, The word Murder Complex isn't even mentioned until we're considerablyinto the book, and even then, it took a whole lot more book space until we find out what it was, and I was completely lost and all the cares I had for this book had flown out the window by the time I got to this point.
There are no food. There is a ruling Initiative, There are tons of orphans, There are gangs. And it's not evenyears into the future,
WAIT, WHAT ARE YOU KIDDING ME Seriously, the world is well built, but there was so very little explanation for the current society, and the past, and the explanation of the past that I found this version of dystopia to be completely forgettable.
There was an absolute lack of historical context that would only bypass the most forgiving of readers,
The Confusion: This book is so actionpacked that I had trouble keeping track of where they are, and when they are, I just don't know where things are taking place, Zephyr and Meadow are talking, where are they Fucked if I know, The setting is poorly built in this matter because I just can't get a clear idea of where things are and what is happening,
The Characters: Are inconsistent, are forgettable, and make choices that make no sense at all, Meadow can't make up her mind who she wants to be, She is supposed to be a killer, and we see that, She kills. I admire that. But then she goes around and falls in love and starts kissing a boy seconds before he tries to kill her, And then she gets mad at him, and then forgives him, and then can't make up her mind whether or not she should kiss him or kill him Fuck that.
Her father trained her to be a killer, and Meadow knows that in order for her to survive, she must be a killer, It makes no sense that she is so utterly wishywashy in her actions, in her choices,
I honestly had a tough time telling which chapters were Zephyr's and which chapters were Meadow's, towards the end of the first half of the book, because their voices blended together and they felt like a single entity instead of one.
I think it's more of the fact that Zephyr's voice felt effeminate, and he is such an utterly pale character that I can't be bothered remembering him,
Other characters in the book are completely nonsensical in their decisions, Take Meadow's takenoprisoner father. He's been training his children to survive since they were small, understandable, but it doesn't really fucking make sense to tell his kids to do something that almost got them killed NUMEROUS times, in fact, they were seconds away from death as children.
There are surely better ways of training your children and not lose them in the attempt, I really can't find any liking for the characters in this book,
Convenient Events: I don't want to say deus ex machina, but there you have it, There are WAY too many convenient coincidences in this book, Accidentally climb onto a yacht only to overhear something important Accidentally discovering the importance of one's mother Accidentally discovering MORE SHIT OH, WE JUST HAPPENED TO FIND A CRATE OF WEAPONS.
No. No. No. After theth such discovery, I just wanted to scream out in frustration,
Boredom: Ok, this is just entirely subjective, but there we have it, I was bored as fuck, and this book was a
tremendously long waste of my time,
Overall: a terrible disappointment, Don't buy the hype.
This book was provided to me as an Advance Reader Copy, Quotes were taken from an uncorrected galley and is subject to change in the final edition, .