Atlantia - Ally Condie

Title: Atlantia
Author: Ally Condie
Genre: Dystopian
Rating: 2.5/5
# pages: 368
Date read: April, 2016

For as long as she can remember, Rio has dreamt of the sand and sky Above - of life beyond her underwater city of Atlantia. But in a single moment, all her plans for the future are thwarted when her twin sister, Bay, makes an unexpected decision, stranding Rio Below. Alone, ripped away from the last person who knew Rio's true self - and the powerful siren voice she has long hidden - she has nothing left to lose.

Guided by a dangerous and unlikely mentor, Rio formulates a plan that leads to increasingly treacherous questions about her mother’s death, her own destiny, and the complex system constructed to govern the divide between land and sea. Her life and her city depend on Rio to listen to the voices of the past and to speak long-hidden truths.


Not a particularly good book, but a question was asked in the first chapter that I desperately want answered, so I kept reading regardless, hoping that it was a good answer, so it'd be worth it!

Fortunately it was a decent enough answer, so I wasn't disappointed in that regard, but the writing just couldn't live up to what I'd expected from Ally Condie. It was just plain unengaging (for want of better word), so if it hadn't been for wanting to know the aforementioned answer, I probably never would have gotten through the book.

There were a lot of other questions left unanswered though, and as a whole, I just didn't find the book neither terribly well-written nor interesting. A shame, because it really did have a lot of potential.