2nd book in the series, it continues the fight Myla and her teammates live everyday. They now know that the lessons they have been taught their whole lives, the stories they have built their hopes and dreams around, are all lies. What is their next step. You'll have to read the book!

CW// lots of puking

This is my second book that I’ve read by Ramona Finn and I have to say that this book is just a rehashed version of The GEOs series by her. A dystopian world with job assignments, an illness, a contained setting that people can’t leave, rebels that turn out to be good guys, main characters who are carbon copies of each other, “elites” of the society living in the sky, etc. I could go on and on with this list. I read a sample of one of Ramona Finn’s other series as well and it seems to follow the same format as the other two. How many times can an author publish books that are essentially the same story until people start calling them out on it? I’m not trying to say that all dystopian books are the same because as a big dystopian lover, I can firmly tell you that they aren’t, but three series seeming to be nearly identical by the same author? It’s just odd and it baffles me that most reviews for books by this author appear to be positive.

Since this book was so similar to The GEOs series, a lot of my criticisms for this one are the same as my criticisms for that series. The biggest criticisms being that I wasn’t a huge fan of the plain writing style and the cheesy terminology used throughout the book. At least this one didn’t have the same ridiculous character names as The Acceptance, but I can’t say that this book does anything for me.

The major difference in this book in comparison to The GEOs series is that there’s one character that’s unique to this series and that’s Ona, the main character’s younger sister. However, Ona behaves like an eight year old despite the fact that she’s supposedly fifteen. Nothing pulls me out of a story quicker than a character not acting even remotely close to their age.

The pacing of this book was just as much of a train wreck as the rest of the book. The first 40% of the book was slow and nothing happened in it. However, after that 40%, the pace sped up until it was almost too fast. I’ve never complained about a book’s pacing being too fast before, but I had to keep rereading passages because things were happening so quickly. It kept leaping from one action scene to the next and sometimes it took me multiple read throughs of parts of the book in order to fully process all of the action.

I’m only giving this story two stars for Lock. He was the only thing I really liked about this book, but even though I loved him, I’ve seen tons of characters in dystopian novels that are the exact same as him. His character is like Xander from the Matched series and Gale from The Hunger Games.

I definitely will not be continuing with this series and I’m not planning on reading anymore books by this author. If this author had more variety in her works, I’d give her books another chance, but I’m not going to force myself to sit through another disappointing dystopian book that feels just like any other mediocre dystopian book that already exists.

I absolutely loved this book. I missed out on getting the first book on Netgalley but if someone misses that one then you definitely need to go read the first book. What happened in this book might be confusing without it.

This book was so good,and so clean. There is no language, no sexual content. It is perfect for tweens and teens. I loved the main character, Ona and Lock.

Thank you so much Netgalley & Ramona Finn for letting me read this wonderful book.

The Lofties by Ramona Finn picked up right where The Decemites left off. While good and action packed Finn appears to be creating a more love triangle that feels forced. If she picked Ben great, if she picked good, but being wishy washy and stringing them both along.... not good. And the guys sticking around, lame. Another issue with the book was how easy it appears to be to get a band of outsiders into Echelon, but she had trouble in the first book getting around, it was really separate. It seemed almost easy to get in and it seemed to take no amount of time to get around, when in the first book, there were floors...



I received an advance reader copy in exchange for a fair review.

Awesome book to read with an interesting world in a dystopian setting with different factions within society. Myla, the strongwilled main character returns from the outside with her friend Lock, having learned that not all is like the leader Lazrad would like them to believe. Lock and her sister Ona though are still very happy to live under Lazrad's leadership and that only intensifies when all three of them are being ascended and their families are moved to the Sky part of the city where everything is so much better. Myla feels things are off though, but she can't convince the others. Yet as more and more secrets are revealed tough choices will have to be made, choices that have consequences for not only their life, but for all lives.
Awesome pacing, great characterbuilding and lots of action as slowly more and more of this world becomes clear, I had a lot of fun reading this book by Ramona Finn and am pretty bummed I missed part 1 in her Echelon series!

***An ARC was provided by Netgalley in exchange for a honest review. ***