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Laura Lulu
Aug 20, 2009 rated it liked it
Shelves: young-adult, dystopia
I am giving this 3 stars based on it's potential--it really only deserves 2, but I will read the sequel, so I'll throw a bone and give it three.

This book was only 220 pages of large print, and it ended right when the action started. That's not a cliffhanger, that's a book cut in half. I appreciate the popularity of trilogies & series--I'm a fan myself--but this was a novella.

Also, the writing was amateurish, especially the dialogue. Mom & teenage daughter shopping: "Mom, this fish is going to be
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Kay
Nov 09, 2009 rated it it was ok
The Line is an odd book. It has a universe with real potential, filled with political, social and (perhaps) magical intrigue. There's no zombie apocalypse, but something peculiar sure is going on.

But The Line also has some rather significant problems.

For starters, the writing just wasn't that great. I had to reread chunks of text just to work out what was supposed to be going on. As for the story, it featured a lot of telling and little showing. The characters were little more than plot devices
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Cheer Papworth
Jul 08, 2009 rated it liked it
Shelves: dystopian, ya
Amelia
Oct 26, 2009 marked it as to-read
Shelves: young-adult, future
FlibBityFLooB
Oct 28, 2009 marked it as to-read
Dori
Dec 18, 2009 marked it as z_not-sorted_to-read
Heidi
Dec 23, 2009 marked it as to-read
Allison
Aug 30, 2010 marked it as to-read
Lee
Dec 18, 2010 marked it as unsorted  ·  review of another edition
Marsha
Feb 16, 2011 marked it as to-read
Shelves: wish-list
Kaity
May 25, 2011 marked it as wishlist
Witchspell
Jun 09, 2011 rated it liked it
Midu Hadi
Sep 17, 2011 marked it as to-read
Mary
Dec 18, 2011 marked it as to-read
Lindy-Lane
Feb 10, 2012 rated it it was ok
Shelves: ya-reads
Jennifer
Feb 29, 2012 marked it as to-read
Ouroboros
Apr 02, 2012 marked it as to-read
Deyara
May 20, 2012 marked it as to-read
Ashley
Oct 15, 2012 marked it as to-read
Lakisha
Dec 29, 2012 marked it as to-read
Trish
Feb 19, 2013 marked it as to-read
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Aug 16, 2013 marked it as to-read
Efreak
Mar 21, 2016 marked it as to-read
Carrie
Nov 06, 2019 marked it as to-read
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