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conulyIs it Amari and the Great Game? I don't feel like googling to double check that title. For some reason I got this book twice, once as a hardcover and once as a kindle book. I'm not sure how that happened, really.
Anyway, I liked this book *somewhat* more than the previous one, but this time I'm pissed off because a. nobody DOES visit Dylan in prison which b. turns out to be a hellscape and c. at no point, despite having multiple conversations with him after his escape does anybody, least of all Amari, say "Wow, yeah, no, it sucks that this happened to you, because that shouldn't happen to anybody. And no, I didn't stop them from taking you away to Hellscape Prison, but you didn't stop them either because we're just kids! Super duper powerful kids, magically speaking, but not powerful enough! And I don't know half the stuff you do, because I haven't been doing it nearly as long. If YOU couldn't get out of being taken to prison, I don't know what you expected ME to do about it."
And even if either of them had had that sort of magical power, neither of them has the sort of political power to effect the sort of social change that is really necessary.
Seriously, if nobody says "We need prison reform, and we need it now" in the next book, I am done with this author forever. Shame on him for not having anybody say it, or even think it, in this one!
Anyway, I liked this book *somewhat* more than the previous one, but this time I'm pissed off because a. nobody DOES visit Dylan in prison which b. turns out to be a hellscape and c. at no point, despite having multiple conversations with him after his escape does anybody, least of all Amari, say "Wow, yeah, no, it sucks that this happened to you, because that shouldn't happen to anybody. And no, I didn't stop them from taking you away to Hellscape Prison, but you didn't stop them either because we're just kids! Super duper powerful kids, magically speaking, but not powerful enough! And I don't know half the stuff you do, because I haven't been doing it nearly as long. If YOU couldn't get out of being taken to prison, I don't know what you expected ME to do about it."
And even if either of them had had that sort of magical power, neither of them has the sort of political power to effect the sort of social change that is really necessary.
Seriously, if nobody says "We need prison reform, and we need it now" in the next book, I am done with this author forever. Shame on him for not having anybody say it, or even think it, in this one!
