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| Original Title: | All These Things I've Done |
| ISBN: | 0374302103 (ISBN13: 9780374302108) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Birthright #1 |
| Setting: | New York City, New York,2083(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2014) |
Gabrielle Zevin
Hardcover | Pages: 354 pages Rating: 3.7 | 13511 Users | 2046 Reviews
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| Title | : | All These Things I've Done (Birthright #1) |
| Author | : | Gabrielle Zevin |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 354 pages |
| Published | : | September 6th 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Romance. Fiction. Teen. Mystery |
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In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city's most notorious (and dead) crime boss, life is fairly routine. It consists of going to school, taking care of her siblings and her dying grandmother, trying to avoid falling in love with the new assistant D.A.'s son, and avoiding her loser ex-boyfriend. That is until her ex is accidentally poisoned by the chocolate her family manufactures and the police think she's to blame. Suddenly, Anya finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight--at school, in the news, and most importantly, within her mafia family.Engrossing and suspenseful, All These Things I've Done is an utterly unique, unputdownable read that blends both the familiar and the fantastic.
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The status comments I made for this book do a lot to explain my descending feelings. I'm just flat bummed that Zevin took things in the direction she did, because I started out absolutely LOVING this story. To be honest, the only reason I was initially engaged in the book is because I liked Anya and her family. The worldbuilding is practically nonexistent, and for any book that touts itself as a dystopian, that's not good. Chocolate and caffeine have been outlawed, and there's little-to-noThis wasn't much of anything. It wasn't a love story, it wasn't a dystopic future, it wasn't an exciting action crime drama, it certainly wasn't science fiction as it is cataloged at the library. This story fell short of being defined in any genre just as it fell short in being interesting or appealing in any way.The love interest, Win, was boring and annoying (he wore lots of hats and called his girlfriend "lass") and the main character Anya and her family was unsympathetic despite the sympathy
I'll admit that this was fun to read, and that the echoes of the Prohibition era was done quite well, but it was the worldbuilding that really killed it for me. I mean, apart from the absurd notion that coffee and chocolate are banned, I can't understand why those two items are banned when alcohol is legal, even for minors. A lot of things just don't make sense in terms of the worldbuilding. If anything, it felt like it was dystopian for the sake of being a dystopian. There was nothing
3.5 stars (Looks at back of book. Reads 2082. Looks at Goodreads synopsis. Reads 2083. Is confused.)New York, 2083. Chocolate and coffee are illegal. Curfews are enforced. Water is a precious commodity. And Anya Balanchine, orphaned daughter of a prominent criminal underworld figure, is arrested for attempted murder. Gabrielle Zevin drops her readers into a future that is unsettlingly easy to imagine (with the exception of the chocolate ban, perhaps). Its our world just bleaker, harder, darker.
This book was a total air ball for me. The premise sounded so fun a futuristic society with a Prohibition-era-type ban on chocolate,a black market run by mobster families, and a teenage heir to the family empire. MURDERS! POISONING! Boredom? Boredom. Oh, and tepid romance and a selfish MC. Imagine all the places this book couldve gone. Yeah, thats right, Im thinking total badass teenage girl threatening her way across NYC and putting her dysfunctional family business back in order. (I mean,
I got an ARC of this at TLA. I didn't know what to expect, and I loved not knowing what to expect. Refreshingly different, with an appealing main character and romantic interest. Read it very quickly, and really enjoyed it.
New York City is a very different place in 2083. Crime and poverty are everywhere, and it seems that the only thing that the government is good at doing is banning and rationing items. Youd think that life would get kind of boring since caffeine and chocolate are illegal, but life for Anya Balanchine is always a little more interesting than shed like it to be. All the excitement probably comes with the family namethe Balanchine crime family is one of the most eminent crime families in the world.
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