Book Review: The 100 by Kass Morgan

I am obsessed with the TV series (it’s AMAZING) so I requested this book from Net Galley and was lucky (well not really) enough to receive a copy. Quickly I'd like to say that I won't be reviewing Day 21, I really don't see the point.

Okay here goes: The 100 is set three hundred years after a nuclear war ravaged earth. The survivors escaped into space, to live on a spaceship known in the TV series as The Ark. Locked inside The Ark are teenage delinquents, in order to find out whether earth is inhabitable, it is decided that one hundred of the prisoners should be sent to earth to see if they can survive.

I can tell you now; this review is going to be short. Why? Well, because this book was rubbish. The premise is very interesting, if a little obvious. Nuclear war. Space. Earth mission. I thought that the characters would flesh out the story line, because I made the mistake of watching the first few episodes of the TV series before I read the book. Big mistake. HUGE mistake. Massive, massive. The series is brilliant, in fact it’s one of the best I've ever watched, definitely up there with Doctor Who, Once Upon a Time and Game of Thrones. But the book, I feel so bad writing this because it had so much potential, but unfortunately I hated it.

The TV series makes the characters deep and interesting with great back stories and interaction. In the book, they are shallow and I couldn't connect with them at all. Besides, there was no Finn in the book, doesn't that just say it all? The series made the story line of the book much more interesting, it included ‘grounders’ and ‘mountain men’ and I wasn't bored for a second, I was on my toes right until the end. The cliff hanger oh my gosh, don’t even get me started on the cliff hanger.

Sadly, the book didn't deliver and I give it one out of five stars. Sorry Kass Morgan but I will not be reading Day 21. However I will be watching series two which airs in America on October 22. Here is a link if you want to find out more about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUytl9bZV0Q.