Starseed - Liz Gruder

Review: Starseed

Author: Liz Gruder

Rating: 1/5

Genre: Science-fiction

Recommend To: No one

I'd like to thank Ms. Liz Gruder for providing me with a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

Okay so, I really hate doing this but there is no way I can avoid it...I was literally forcing myself page by page to read this book. The whole time I was wondering...is it me? Is science-fiction alien stuff too much for me to handle? But no, I've loved plenty of extraterrestrial stuff. I'm a fan of Star Wars for Pete's sake. So why wasn't I enjoying this book?

It was a quick read, with an interesting idea. I thought the aliens would be really interesting and fun to hate, I thought I would get to feel torn by Jordan and I would get sucked in to Kaila's story. 

But...it was weird. None of it was making a lot of sense, there wasn't any tension, the writing was bland. It was not interesting. Plain as day, it was confusing and bizarre. The aliens were repellant. There was insta-love. But most of all, I hated the characters. Each and every single one. There wasn't one lovable character. There were some with potential, her friends were cute enough. But I NEVER CONNECTED. I didn't like Kaila, she annoyed me, Jordan was despicable along with his "hive." They were just way too sinister and gross. The whole time I felt like I was waiting for something to happen and the story just got weirder and weirder. 

It twisted and the worst thing was, I felt like it was constantly painting humans in a very negative light. It was distasteful. A lot of random pop culture was tossed in, and then there was some really nauseating alien partying that was completely unnecessary. The school cliques were way overdone and the bullying was so cliche I thought I'd puke. And you may think me cold, but I really felt no sympathy or empathy for any of the characters. It was badly done....

Sigh, I really wish I'd liked this book. But I wasn't able to enjoy it. The characters themselves were too atrocious to have any chance of holding the story up. I waited for it to get better, but it never did. A huge disappointment to someone who loves science-fiction.