Tuesday, December 24, 2013

When There's No Tomorrow by H.J. Stephens

Synopsis:
80 years ago the worst war in human history began. 10 years ago it ended. At least that's what the history books say. But everyone knows; history books lie. The war never ended. It's still going; there just aren’t enough people alive anymore to dispute it. 

My name is Kalina. My father is chief of my people, the Forgotten. The rebel scum, you may know us as. Pirates and swindlers. But we're not. We're just people fighting together to make a stand against injustice. Making a stand for our freedom. 

But it's not that simple though; freedom and justice. Who chooses what is and what isn't right? Who chooses who lives and who dies? 

Someone once asked me, who are we to stop a war? I ask you, who are we not to?

My Rating
-3.5/5-
A free copy was received in exchange for an honest review.
Kalina isn't a strong character, as in she can handle what gets thrown at her. While it would make it sound like a horrible book it was actually really good pulling the reader in.
She is the daughter of someone important but Kalina herself is unimportant to the war and she is more or less just there and its her story. She has to go through a lot and she can't really handle it well which makes her feel very real. As opposed to the character you read in other books who almost always are able to hold it together. Kalina talks a lot about people are like, and what is probably propelling them to do all this killing instead of actually trying to end the war. It's actually pretty interesting for being a type of book I'm just to with war and two sides and some girl wanting the war to end. Though it is done in such a different way then most of those other books! 
The ending was a bit of a twist, even if I have read ending like it before. Also in the Author's notes I read that this is the first in a trilogy so it will be interesting to see where this goes and if the war they are in will end.

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