I never cared about any of the characters or shipped any of the couples. Just a couple of chapters were enough to convince me that I would not enjoy Possession at all. Were I not especially obsessed with dystopias, I would never have finished this book. None of this is very good technically or creatively. Overall this wasn’t something I enjoyed and I wouldn’t recommend. There is a very blatant love triangle going on almost right from the beginning. However, she keeps breaking the rules of the Goodies and gets sent to the Badlands to live with the Baddies. Pretty typical story about a girl who lives in a dystopian society and is matched with a certain boy. I am pretty sick of YA dystopias at this point and this book definitely did not have anything special to recommend it. I picked this up a number of years ago when I was in my YA dystopian phase. Scenes and characters are almost impossible to picture because of the lack of description and for some reason the author likes to discuss people’s hair a lot. I felt like I was reading a “learning to read” book at times very short simple sentences and dialogue that are grammatically correct but sound awkward. I really struggled with this author’s writing style it was just to choppy and simple.

The whole book was very juvenile sounding the writing was choppy and didn’t flow well and the characters and story were not at all engaging.

I got through the first 100 pages of this book and then decided to stop reading it.

This is the first book in the Possession trilogy.

Possession book elana johnson