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Picking up immediately after the ending of Chosen Ones, Naturals begins with Tess being escorted to the Isolationist camp that sprung for her rescue. While Tess had mixed feelings about entering this new society, I was eager for her to arrive. I wanted to know more about what lies outside of the compounds, and what life is like there. Again, this all reminded me a lot of the Delirium series, specifically the second book where we get to see life in "the wilds." I do think that Naturals developed and explained this outside world much better though. We're shown the people's day to day routines, what they do for fun, their belief system, how they get supplies, and everything else. It's all explained in more detail than life in the compounds was, so I was satisfied in that regard. However, in general this sequel was mostly just okay.

The first half of Naturals is bogged down a bit by several flashbacks. Tess is desperate to hold on to her memories of James, but all of these scenes are verbatim repeats of Chosen Ones. There's nothing new to be gained by these flashbacks, so I could have done with out them. On the other hand, her memories of her childhood were interesting. Those pieces did give us some insight into how life was in the compounds, at least for Tess and her family who were much better off than most. It also explained the tough exterior that she presented until James brought her walls down.

Naturals does present a few answers to some of the world-building questions that I had from the first book. While they do make sense, they're not totally satisfying either. We get more information about why women are the ones blamed for the world's trouble, but it was all shallow reasoning. I wanted more of a solid explanation, not just "women are emotional and make men do stupid things." Another group of lab created life was also introduced in the form of "abnorms" who are nothing like the chosen ones that we're familiar with. They are clearly beings meant to kill, and their existence does provide some new information about why the council was so focused on making their soldiers beautiful and not just deadly.

Naturals is a good followup to an interesting start. It didn't wow me, but I still liked it. I've enjoyed watching Tess grow. She no longer shuns emotions and doesn't believe all of the propaganda regarding sex and her own innate weakness that she was fed as a child. The twist at the end was not a shock at all. I feel like all of the hints along the way were more like neon signs, but I am curious to see where this all goes.

*Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher through NetGalley for review. No compensation was offered or accepted.


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Naturals Lost Souls Tiffany Truitt Books Reviews

First let me start off by saying I am not a particular fan of teen first-person fiction dystopian genre of story-telling. And my biggest challenge in reading this series is that it is all of those things at once. Which means there is a lot of character internalization that makes me highly annoyed at the main character and doesn't seem to really move the story anywhere - and this goes on for the first third to half of the book. There are a lot of flashbacks and visions in this book and this really bogged down my reading to the point where I put it away for a few weeks. I think the author has improved a lot since her first book which I had this same difficulty with until nearly the end of the story, and there is still room for improvement in the flow of the story.

Having said that, I really like a lot of things about this story, once I picked it up again and plowed on to where things actually started to happen. The conversational banter are really the strongest things in this story that carry it forward and make it fun the closer it gets to the end of the book. So this main character is growing internally and we can see that as she draws analogies between her own life and that of Tess Derbyfield a la Tess of D'Urbervilles - in hopes that she won't be quite as tragic as Tess Derbyfield... Unfortunately, whether she sees it or not, she really is more tragic a character than Tess Derbyfield, and the one characteristic she is beginning to develop that TD never could is that she is strong-willed and does things her own way. Consider that she grew up in a position where she had to mother her own mother and her younger sister and become emotionally blocked up and detached to the point where she lashes out in anger at people rather easily...where her classic literature counterpart internalized more and more until she destroyed herself and those around her. And this is what I love about Tiffany's story is that she draws the analogies to this classic literature with her character's inner monologue. Now I am of the opinion the execution could be a bit smoother to perhaps, give me a reason to identify with this teenage girl and sympathize with her rather than wanting to occasionally punch her in the face for not making sense.

I like how she incorporated some of the history of this disease that has been killing women into the story. As I mentioned before, the clever dialogue is the strongest carrier of this story and I find it much more interesting when Lockwood (my current favorite character) tells Tess the history and backstory than when Tess remembers her own. My advise to the author for book 3 would be PLAY THIS STRENGTH!

This brings us to the end of the book which is what the entire story seemed to be trying to build toward Tess spends 2/3 of the story wanting to rescue her sister but counter to her hot-headedness she spends most of the book getting used to camp life. Okay great, I get it, we're building up sympathy of some of the camp-bound characters so we can have a larger group go out with relatively little protest to face the "bad guys"... but are they really bad guys? Is there such a thing as a "good guy" in this story even? There is a ton of foreshadowing in the story that made me not entirely surprised at the surprise ending, but even with that, the final chapters left my jaw on the floor. And I'm pretty sure this is intentional that we are meant to be feeling the same shock as Tess that this REALLY. JUST. HAPPENED. I'm talking about a Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back moment of revelation. And I am at a point where, as much as we are led to believe that some characters are bad and some are decent, we're about to have our entire philosophy turned on its head in Book 3. Seriously, for me it was this ending that made the entire book worth the read.

So, keep up the good work Tiffany Truitt. If Book 3 can maintain the momentum of the last part of Naturals, you will have a real winner!
Picking up immediately after the ending of Chosen Ones, Naturals begins with Tess being escorted to the Isolationist camp that sprung for her rescue. While Tess had mixed feelings about entering this new society, I was eager for her to arrive. I wanted to know more about what lies outside of the compounds, and what life is like there. Again, this all reminded me a lot of the Delirium series, specifically the second book where we get to see life in "the wilds." I do think that Naturals developed and explained this outside world much better though. We're shown the people's day to day routines, what they do for fun, their belief system, how they get supplies, and everything else. It's all explained in more detail than life in the compounds was, so I was satisfied in that regard. However, in general this sequel was mostly just okay.

The first half of Naturals is bogged down a bit by several flashbacks. Tess is desperate to hold on to her memories of James, but all of these scenes are verbatim repeats of Chosen Ones. There's nothing new to be gained by these flashbacks, so I could have done with out them. On the other hand, her memories of her childhood were interesting. Those pieces did give us some insight into how life was in the compounds, at least for Tess and her family who were much better off than most. It also explained the tough exterior that she presented until James brought her walls down.

Naturals does present a few answers to some of the world-building questions that I had from the first book. While they do make sense, they're not totally satisfying either. We get more information about why women are the ones blamed for the world's trouble, but it was all shallow reasoning. I wanted more of a solid explanation, not just "women are emotional and make men do stupid things." Another group of lab created life was also introduced in the form of "abnorms" who are nothing like the chosen ones that we're familiar with. They are clearly beings meant to kill, and their existence does provide some new information about why the council was so focused on making their soldiers beautiful and not just deadly.

Naturals is a good followup to an interesting start. It didn't wow me, but I still liked it. I've enjoyed watching Tess grow. She no longer shuns emotions and doesn't believe all of the propaganda regarding sex and her own innate weakness that she was fed as a child. The twist at the end was not a shock at all. I feel like all of the hints along the way were more like neon signs, but I am curious to see where this all goes.

*Disclaimer I received this book from the publisher through NetGalley for review. No compensation was offered or accepted.